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Elk River <br /> Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br /> TO: FROM: <br /> ERMU Commission Mark Fuchs—Electric Superintendent <br /> MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br /> January 9, 2018 6.1c <br /> SUBJECT: <br /> Staff Update <br /> ACTION REQUESTED: <br /> None <br /> DISCUSSION: <br /> • Had 8 new house services. <br /> • Continue working on collecting data with the GPS for our ArcView maps as time permits. <br /> • Continue working in Connexus acquisition Areas 3&4. <br /> • With the freeze up, installation of the underground wire in areas 5&6 heading north of the <br /> Waco substation will be put on hold until spring when the frost goes out. We are still <br /> working on making up the boxes that were installed prior to the frost. <br /> • Finished removing a three phase junction box and installing a single phase fuse pad at the <br /> Tall Pines Addition on 183rd Circle. The underground infrastructure in the project itself <br /> will be installed in the spring. <br /> • Continue rebuilding the overhead line south of 197th Avenue to 190 %2 Lane on the east <br /> side of Highway 169. Finished the underground part of this line that was installed from <br /> 193rd Avenue to 190 %2 Lane. The overhead wire has also been removed from this section. <br /> • Installed some underground infrastructure in Trace Heights 2nd Addition. Work will <br /> continue on this project this spring when the frost comes out. This development is south <br /> of County Road 33 on Yale Street. <br /> • Did our annual inventory count of materials; the preliminary numbers look good. <br /> • Carr's tree trimming service is helping out with tree trimming this year to help get caught <br /> up with the areas we acquired from Connexus. We are also getting ready to trim trees. <br /> • Tom Geiser and I attended the Technical & Operations conference that Minnesota <br /> Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA)held in St. Cloud,MN. Some of the sessions I <br /> attended were: Become the Leader People Want to Follow; Active Threat Preparedness <br /> &Verbal De-escalation for the Workplace; Mindset of a Cyber Attacker, Communicating <br /> the Value of Reliability; and an MMUA update. <br /> • Curt Wark, Jared Rolstad and Jake Koehler attended the MMUA Transformer School <br /> December 13-15 in Marshall, MN. <br /> • Inventory Person Ben Elsenpeter gave notice; his final day was December 31.After re- <br /> evaluation of the position and ERMU's needs, a job opening was posted for an Inventory <br /> &Procurement Foreperson. The posting will close on January 19. <br /> Page 1 of 1 <br /> 80 <br />