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'~+Ji Elk River -,-~ Municipal Utilities 13069 Orono Parkway Elk River, MN 55330 December 30, 2005 To: Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Jerry Takle Jolu~ Dietz Jim Tralle From: Bryan Adams Subject: Added Personnel phone: 763.441.2020 Fax: 763.441.8099 The persom7el projection of our 2006 budget reflects the addition of a supervisor for metering and locating areas. Currently Glenn Sundeen supervises the locating function and Dave Berg supervises the metering area. This position will also be the start of our engineering department. Attached is a job description and position evaluation for this proposed position titled "Supervisor Engineering Services". The reasons to add this position are as follows: 1) With the new rules on locating underground utilities in road R/W, our record Keeping will become much more critical. As we abandon underground utilities we are to map these abandon facilities for future reference. We are doing a very poor job of keeping track of abandon underground facilities. Consultants were updating our electric and water system maps on an annual basis. Because our systems are growing so fast, our systems maps need to be updated more often than annually so we are bringing this function back in house and doing it would be our own staff. This added person will do some of this CAD work as well as supervise the locator and CAD employee. 2) With the increased use of electronic metering both for electric and water, along with power quality issue, this area is becoming more complicated. One supervisor for both the water department and metering is no longer a reasonable approach. Both water production distribution and metering have grown in size and complexity that they both deserve full time supervision. 3) Elk River continues to grow and at a faster pace. Glenn & I need help with the increased planning, engineering, project inspection and administration. This additional supervisor will be a great asset in this area.