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/i ElkRiver = - Municip al Utilitie s 13069 Orono Parkway P.O. Box 430 Elk River, MN 55330-0430 phone; 763.441.2020 fax: 763.441.8099 October 20, 2008 1:OOpm at ERMU Conference Room Written Account of Event -Second Meeting to Revisit Staff Restructuring Those in Attendance: Troy Adams, Engineering Manager; Mark Fuchs, Line Superintendant; Theresa Slominski, Financial Director; Mike Thiry, Lead Lineman; Michael Price, Meter Technician; Adam Freiberg, Utility Worker; Steve Ziemer, Utility Worker; and Chris King, Laborer. Those Absent: Wade Lovelette, Line Foreman. This closed door meeting regarding staff restructuring was held as follow-up to a meeting held on October 15, 2008. The purpose of the follow-up meeting was to communicate job duty changes to those parties involved. Also, the meeting served as a venue for open discussion for all parties involved to voice concerns and ideas about the job duty reallocations proposed. The proposed solution was to have Mike Thiry move from Lead Lineman working on a crew to putting him back into his old position with slight motification. As part of this move; the job duties Mike was previously responsible that had been passed on to other departments would be transferred back to Mike. These duties would include: permitting documentation, MSDS documentation, subcontractor field support inspection, transformer testing for PCBs, plant safety inspections, and tool repair. To address the issues of current workload in the line department, Mike Thiry would assume the role of Floater, working with the line crews as workload dictates. This being the primary responsibility, Mike would be scheduled by Mark and/or Wade to fill in as need be. Mike's remaining responsibilities would be secondary. An issue found with previous processes for Mike Thiry's position was lack of trained backup for key responsibilities. The proposed solution was for the Meter Shop to serve as Mike's backup for work and documentation pertaining to the transformer testing of PCBs. By having the Meter Shop trained as backup also provides qualified personnel to assist when a task requires two or more people, such as stacking or moving transformers within the storage building. For the plant safety inspection and tool repair duties, Steve Ziemer would serve as Mike's backup. Mike Thiry made a request to have his job position description revised to reflect the current job duty responsibilities. A "Service Lineman" job description had been written when Mike had originally moved into that job. All parties involved where agreement as to the discussed proposed solution. The re-restructuring was implemented management effective immediately. Troy Adams Engineering Manager ~~'~` ~~ ~~~~ ,~- _ q~ ~~ ,~; ~~~