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Elk River <br /> Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br /> TO: FROM: <br /> ERMU Commission Mike Tietz—Technical Services Superintendent <br /> MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br /> February 13th, 2018 6.1d <br /> SUBJECT: <br /> Staff Update <br /> ACTION REQUESTED: <br /> None <br /> DISCUSSION: <br /> • In January,the Locating department had a total of 103 locate tickets consisting of six <br /> emergency tickets, 3 cancellations, 5 meetings, 67 normal tickets and 18 updated tickets. <br /> This is a 4% increase in volume of tickets from the previous month. The locators are <br /> continuing to gather GPS points, averaging about 50 data points per day. <br /> • Electric Technicians continue with updating power bill, substation checks, disconnects, <br /> reconnects, dealing with meter and off-peak issues, as well as installing new meters for <br /> commercial customers. Staff completed the reprogramming of all non-demand meters <br /> within their appropriate billing cycles. <br /> • The weekly meter reads have been going very well according to staff. We have <br /> implemented a backup computer into a rotation schedule as well as cross-training staff to <br /> have a redundancy in the reading process. Staff continues to perform meter audits around <br /> the system as time allows. <br /> • On January 17, the power plant staff worked with Princeton Public Utilities staff to <br /> resolve our issue with engine#4. Staff performed the monthly run on January 30. All <br /> engines ran well, however we developed a coupling leak on engine#1's fuel rail. We will <br /> replace the coupling gaskets on engines 1 & 2 proactively. Also during the run, it was <br /> discovered that we had developed a leak in one of the oil cooling pipes for engine#4. <br /> Staff welded a patch onto it to seal it up. <br /> • Mapping department continues to enter GPS points and attribute points for all of our <br /> systems assets within the ESRI ArcView GIS system. Electronic CAD maps continue to <br /> be updated as well as the 2018 paper map books have been printed for field staff use. The <br /> budgeted ArcGIS Server software has been quoted from ESRI and we are looking to have <br /> it in production by the end of 1St quarter. <br /> • An order has been placed for the replacement locator pickup truck. This budgeted vehicle <br /> was ordered from Midway Ford as they had quoted the lowest State Contract price. <br /> Cornerstone Automotive also submitted a quote, but was substantially higher. <br /> Page 1 of 1 <br /> 156 <br />