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��i <br />Elk River <br />Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />ERMU Commission <br />Mike Tietz—Technical Services Superintendent <br />MEETING DATE: <br />AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />January 14, 2025 <br />6.1g <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• In December, locators processed 113 locate tickets. These consisted of 61 normal <br />tickets, 1 emergency ticket, 37 updated tickets, 3 meets, 4 boundary surveys, and 7 non - <br />excavations. This resulted in a 64.6% decrease in tickets from the previous month and a <br />24.7% decrease from the prior December. The ticket count for 2024 is down 12.6% from <br />2023's numbers. <br />• Electrical technicians completed 280 service order tasks, updated the power bill, <br />addressed customer meter issues and any off-peak concerns. <br />• Staff has been researching how to meet the geospatial location requirements mandated <br />by state statute 261D.04, Subd. 3(h) for Locating Underground Facilities which goes into <br />effect on January 1, 2026, for all newly installed or abandoned facilities. <br />• The Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) residential water meters and residential <br />electric meters continue to be installed in new services. The electrical technicians have <br />been busy changing our Automated Meter Reading meters to AMI around the system. <br />Approximately 4,150 water meters and 5,750 electric meters are currently active within <br />our AMI system. <br />• A manufacturer safety alert was issued for 30 of our reclosers that were built between <br />January 2023 and November 2024. We are working with our distributor on resolving this <br />issue as quickly as possible and have removed all affected equipment from service at <br />this time. This will delay our 2025 replacement project at North substation where we <br />were replacing all five recloser tanks and controllers. <br />• Connexus Energy continues to utilize their feeder tie point to Station 14 substation. <br />• Our monthly peak was 48.28 MW on December 11 at 5:42pm. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />•y, <br />