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Elk River Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO: FROM: Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Mark Fuchs—Electric Superintendent John Dietz—Chair Al Nadeau—Vice Chair Daryl Thompson—Trustee MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: April 12, 2016 6.1c SUBJECT: Staff Update DISCUSSION: • Had seven new services. • Continue working on collecting data with the GPS for our ArcView maps as time permits. • The frost is out so we started boring again. We are placing underground wire at Ulysses and 171st Avenue. • Continue rebuilding the overhead line on the east side of HWY 169 south of Co. Rd. 33 to 197th Ave. • Diversified did our annual inspections on the bucket and digger trucks. The inspections included: Visual/Operational,Magnetic Particle, Dielectric, and Load and Acoustic Emission Testing. • Finished tree trimming for now. • Started rebuilding River Ranch in Otsego. This is the third year of this project and we hope to have it completed this year. We are replacing the rear lot line overhead with front lot line underground. • At the Police Departments recommendation, we're installing some street lights at certain intersections and entrances around town • We have ordered the Vac-Tron,which was a budgeted item, through the NJPA contract. We also received the bore rig truck through the State of Minnesota contract and are in the process of getting the bed installed. The other vehicles that were budgeted for have not been ordered yet and will come before the commission prior to ordering them. • I attended the American Public Power Association(APPA) Engineering and Operations Technical Conference. Some of the breakout sessions I attended where: Finding a Way for Transmission and Distribution Rights-of-Way and Getting Permits, Situation Awareness to Reduce Human Error, AMI Planning and Deployment, LED Streetlighting PyOWERED BY Mq Page 1 of 2 NATURE Reliable Public, Power Provider P oWE 0.E D T O S ERV E 232