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��i <br />Elk River <br />Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />ERMU Commission <br />Chris Sumstad — Electric Superintendent <br />MEETING DATE: <br />AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />February 11, 2025 <br />6.1f <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• Installed eight new residential services, which involves the connection of a secondary <br />line once the customer requests service. <br />• Joe Schmidt, Safety Instructor from Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association, was here <br />on January 29 and 30 and held safety meetings on annually required topics: A <br />Workplace Accident and Injury Reduction program, Bloodborne Pathogens, Personal <br />Protective Equipment, and Employee Right To Know. <br />• The City's Fleet Maintenance Division started performing our annual DOT inspections on <br />our trucks and trailers. This process continues through March. <br />• We are planning for the spring start to the construction season by lining up our jobs. We <br />are seeing some new commercial projects and plans for at least one housing <br />development. <br />• The final connections for the Heritage Mill transformer took place last week. <br />• Staff is finalizing some plans on underground primary placement and a transformer <br />install during the month of March at the JonnyPops location. <br />• Rebuild of overhead Feeder 65, north of our North Substation along Highway 169 is in <br />progress. This rebuild will extend to the landfill in four phases. <br />• Working on annual performance reviews with employees. <br />• Replaced two streetlight poles in Elk River this month that were casualties of the <br />weather and vehicles. <br />• The month of January is always busy for the inventory staff as they close the work <br />orders from the previous year. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />123 <br />