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around the state over a period of perhaps four or five years. We anticipate that Jeff Becthold will take the lead on this project. We had originally anticipated about $50,000 in revenue from this project for 2009, but Mike now thinks that our first year revenue could be significantly higher than that. We should have a good idea of how this project will look for 2009 within a few weeks. Contract Line Crew. On January 7 Mike Willetts and Jeff Becthold will meet with the City of Mora to discuss having MMUA provide line crew service to Mora on a contract basis. We understand that Mora is also considering other providers, including the local co-op, so there is no assurance at this point that we would get the contract. Mora currently has two lineworkers, a journeyman and an apprentice. If we are chosen to provide the service, we expect that the two Mora lineworkers would become MMUA employees, and a third would be hired to provide athree-person crew. We may be able to share line crew services with some other municipals in the area to help keep Mora's costs down. Oi~ice Space. As we discussed at the summer boazd meeting, we have been working with the developer of an office condo project on Highway 55 a few miles west of the current office. We have been through a couple of iterations of a space plan, which still needs some work but is starting to come together. Unfortunately, with no guarantee that we will have any gas prepay revenue to help support the operation, it would likely be a stretch to find enough revenue to support the debt service and operating costs. Our existing lease expires at the end of September 2009. After the holidays, we may want to sit down with the landlord and discuss extending our current lease for a year or two to give us some time to assess our revenue situation and staffing needs going forward. Personnel Manual. One of the things our auditors noted this year was that our personnel manual is somewhat out of date. Associated Financial Group, which serves as our insurance agent and operates our health savings account program, has a human relations consulting group which has given us a very good price for doing a complete rewrite of our personnel manual. On December 8 we had our initial meeting with David Flotten, the attorney who will be preparing the draft of our new manual. The meeting lasted 3 %2 hours and we covered a lot of ground. We were impressed with Mr. Flotten's knowledge of the subject matter. The next step will be preparation of a draft manual that we can review and comment on. When we have a draft that is ready for your consideration, Mr. Flotten will be available to present the new manual to the boazd. Tattler and Web Site. For the past 10 yeazs or so we have done a weekly legislative newsletter during the legislative session. The Capitol Tattler was a significant improvement in information flow when we implemented it, but in this era of instant information access it is beginning to seem dated. 7