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Elk River Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO: FROM: ERMU Commission Theresa Slominski—Finance & Office Manager MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: April 10, 2018 6.1b SUBJECT: Staff Update ACTION REQUESTED: None DISCUSSION: • April 15 marks the end of the cold weather rule and there will be regular shutoffs occurring again, which sometimes results in customers contacting Commissioners with complaints and/or frustrations, so this is just a heads up. With the change in billing cycles, we will be having weekly disconnections rather than a focused two-day period per month. This will mean that we may potentially disconnect more offenders than in the past. In the past, we were limited to approximately 60 disconnects per month due to manpower. Cycle 1 could potentially have this same high number of disconnects, but cycles 2 through 4 will have much lower numbers; we are estimating approximately 15- 25 disconnects for each of these cycles. The Wednesdays of April 18, April 25, May 2 and May 9 will be the disconnect dates for the four cycles immediately following the cold weather rule restrictions being lifted. (Shutoffs will continue to be performed on Wednesdays but these first four weeks would most likely be the highest volume.) • On April 18 we will welcome our second Accountant back after twelve weeks of maternity leave. With the Purchasing Specialist position also currently vacant we have had a temporary staff member from Accountemps helping out and her last day will be April 18. We are still evaluating the needs of the organization related to the Purchasing Specialist position and whether to re-hire that same position or something different. • The annual MISO reporting for our transmission assets, and related revenue, was filed this month. Also the EIA-861, a Department of Energy annual report, was filed for our plant generation output, our kWh sales, and our customers with net metering solar and wind production. Page 1 of 1 174