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______________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Page 1 of 1 <br /> <br /> <br /> UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br /> <br />TO: <br />ERMU Commission <br />FROM: <br />Chris Sumstad – Electric Superintendent <br />MEETING DATE: <br />November 12, 2025 <br />AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />6.01f <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br /> <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• Installed 17 new residential services, which involves the connection of a secondary line <br />once the customer requests service. <br />• Crews continue to work on installation of the primary wire to Minnesota Municipal <br />Power Agency’s renewable natural gas injection site off Baldwin Street east of Highway <br />169. <br />• Joe Schmidt, Safety Instructor from Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA), <br />was here October 29 and 30, and held safety meetings for all staff on fire safety and <br />extinguisher use. <br />• Jay Reading, Safety Instructor from MMUA, was here October 28, and held job training <br />and safety education on digger derrick operations. <br />• Crews are working on replacing a few dead front oil switchgear with dead front non-oil <br />switchgear. This will continue as we receive more shipments of gear. <br />• Carr’s Tree Service returned November 3 and will be tree trimming until the end of the <br />year. <br />• We have a line crew working at the new East substation, installing conduits, ground <br />grids, and lighting. <br />• The bore crew has started working on replacing older open concentric primary on 223rd <br />Avenue in the northwest part of Elk River. <br />• We had a pole fire on October 15 outside the West substation due to tracking of a <br />disconnect switch. Crews were able to switch this out and avoid an outage. They then <br />replaced the pole, overhead gang switch, and brought new feeder wire out from inside <br />the substation to the pole. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />129