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4r,;.Z, <br />Elk Riv <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 />August 12, 2025 <br />6.1g <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• In July, the locators processed 554 locate tickets. These consisted of 481 normal tickets, <br />7 emergency tickets, 44 updated tickets, 12 meetings, 3 planning, 1 boundary survey, 3 <br />corrections, and 3 cancellations. This resulted in a 2.8% increase in tickets from the <br />previous month and a 34.5% increase from the prior July. <br />• In July, the electrical technicians completed 456 service order tasks, updated the power <br />bill, addressed customer meter issues and any off-peak concerns. <br />• The Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AM]) residential water meters and residential <br />electric meters continue to be installed in new services. The electrical technicians have <br />been busy changing our previous Automated Meter Reading meters to AMI for small <br />non -demand commercial customers. We did receive some of our returned merchandise <br />authorization/warranty meters back from Sensus. We have approximately 5,590 (98%) <br />water meters and 12,676 (90%) electric meters that are installed within the system and <br />our overall AM] project is approximately 92% completed. <br />• On July 31, staff received three bids that were opened and reviewed for accuracy and <br />completeness for the East substation concrete foundation installation work. The fencing <br />contractor will finish the initial fence installation in August and will return to complete <br />the remaining fence work after the foundations have been poured. The East <br />transformer's load tap change will match the Otsego transformer. Conduit and ground <br />grid installation will take place early this winter, with assembly of the structures being <br />built late winter by ERMU staff. The prefab control building has been completed ahead <br />of schedule, and we are looking at a November 2025 delivery. Commissioning of the <br />substation should be completed by September 1, 2026. <br />• Our monthly peak was 71.2 MW on July 15, at 3:09pm. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />141 <br />