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Elk River ---- <br />Municipal Utilities <br />13069 Orono Parkway • EO. Box 4.30 <br />Elk River, MN 55330-0430 <br />UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />Phone: 763.441.2020 <br />Fax: 763.441.8099 <br />TO: FROM: <br />Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Troy Adams, P.E. -Director of Operations <br />John Dietz, Chair <br />Jerry Gumphrey, Vice Chair <br />Daryl Thom son, Trustee <br />MEETING DATE: AGENllA ITEM NUMBER: <br />Au ust 10, 2010 6.1 <br />_ <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Updates -Director of Operations <br />DISCUSSION: <br />Sherburne County Emergency Services and the Community Emergency Response Team have <br />requested atour/demonstration at our power plant and some discussion on safety working around <br />utilities during a natural disaster. This tour was held on Aug 4a' for a group of approximately 20 <br />people. <br />After the June 17`x' storms, F,KMU provided mutual aid assistance to Rochester for their tornado <br />recovery efforts. Attached is a letter from the Mayor of Rochester thanking ERMU for our help. <br />There are new rules for employees to take time off to vote. Previously, state legislation allowed <br />employees to be absent from work without penalty during the morning of an election day to vote. <br />In 2010, this has been changed to allow the employees to absent from work without penalty <br />anytime during an election day to vote. See the attached League of Minnesota Cities memo. <br />This November, American Public Power Association (APPA) has a Public Power Leadership <br />Workshop in Portland, Oregon. I'm planning on attending this training. This is in substitution <br />for the APPA Nation Conference held earlier this summer for which we had budgeted for 1 staff <br />and 2 commissioners to attend. See the attached conference information. <br />Fox your reading is the attached article from APPA, "City-owned utility in Lubbock, Texas, to <br />absorb 24,000 retail customers from Xcel Energy". The article covers a recent case where a <br />municipal utility acquired customers another utility. The take home message is that this <br />municipal utility put them in a position to succeed through increased efficiency, local control, <br />voluntary citizen board of directors and excellent customer service. <br />