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Resource on the program and what we have accomplished. We also plan to have Bob make a presentation on his efforts at the MMUA winter meeting in March. Looking ahead, we see some relatively simple things we can do to increase member awareness of what we are doing on their behalf. • Energy Services Committee. This MMUA committee has been dormant for several years. We plan to reactivate it to serve, among other things, as an advisory committee for Bob's project. The committee can help set program goals and priorities, serve as a sounding board and test bed for new ideas, and serve as a collective knowledge base regarding MMUA's efforts. We envision at this point that the committee would meet several times each year. • Periodic newsletter or reports. We could send out a periodic or as-needed a-mail newsletter or briefing on CIP and related issues. This would keep the membership much more aware and informed regarding our activities and provide them with timely information. Safety Management. Our safety management program is MMUA's largest program in terms of staff and budget, and it continues to grow. We've recently added the city employees of Shakopee and Owatonna. (We were already serving the utilities.) We have also added Little Falls, and Willmar has added a day per month to its contract. We have a proposal out to Monticello and they appear to be very interested in working with us. We also just learned that the City of Glencoe wants to join our program. (We already serve the utility.) On the negative side we just received word that the City of Elk River will be dropping our program, but we expect to continue to work with the utility. We are concerned that reductions in local government aid could put pressure on city budgets and cause some members to consider reducing or cancelling our services. Thus far, however, we haven't seen much of that. The Elk River situation seems to be more due to local politics than finances. It helps that the League of Minnesota Cities is encouraging its members to work with us. The League's endorsement carries a Iot of weight with city officials. League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust Program. Our partnership with the League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust continues to strengthen. We are now serving a number of "mini" safety groups, comprised of small cities that receive aslimmed-down version of our safety management program. The cost is very reasonable and it enables these small towns to have a basic safety program, which is a huge improvement over the status quo. LMCIT anticipates continued significant growth in this program. LMCIT Generation O&M Manual Project. We are well along in the planning process for another joint project with the League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust. LMCIT, which insures most municipal utility generating plants in the state, wants MMUA to play a major role in developing O&M manuals for the municipal plants. We would likely begin with about three utilities as a pilot project in 2009, then gradually work our way 6