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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 /> May 8, 2018 6.1c <br /> SUBJECT: <br /> Staff Update <br /> ACTION REQUESTED: <br /> None <br /> DISCUSSION: <br /> • Had nine new residential services. <br /> • Continue working on collecting data with the GPS for our ArcView maps as time permits. <br /> • Carr's tree trimming service has completed their portion of the tree trimming. We are <br /> also wrapping up our tree trimming efforts. <br /> • We hooked up the permanent service for Casey's gas station. <br /> • We had a pole that was struck by a vehicle April 14 during the snow storm. This caused <br /> an outage on a single phase tap on 225th Avenue and Baldwin Street. <br /> • We had another vehicle that hit a pole on Highway 169 south of the landfill on April 21 <br /> which resulted in a grass fire and a momentary outage. <br /> • In the process of installing communication cable, M&P Nexlevel bored into our three <br /> phase underground wire by KleinBank in Otsego. <br /> • We are changing out some street light fixtures to LED in part of Otsego. We are also <br /> changing out the light fixtures on Highway 10 to LED. <br /> • We are changing out some porcelain cutouts that are failing in the territory we acquired <br /> from Connexus;the cutouts are being replaced with polymer cutouts. <br /> • Russ Stuhr and Jeremy Lindberg attended the Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association <br /> (MMUA) Generation School held April 10-12 in Owatonna,MN. <br /> • Chris Sumstad and Tony Hubbard attended the MMUA Substation School held April 17- <br /> 19 in Rochester, MN. <br /> • I serve on the Electrical Line Worker Technology Program Advisory Board for the <br /> Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Wadena, MN. At our recent <br /> meeting, we received an update from the Academic Dean,talked through the existing <br /> curriculum, and offered suggestions on ways to improve as the industry changes. <br /> • Zac Johnson, Matt Schwartz and Curt Wark will be competing as a journeymen team at <br /> the APPA Lineworkers Rodeo being held April 27 - 28 in Raleigh/Wake Forest,NC. I <br /> will be a judge at the event and will also be attending the Engineering and Operations <br /> Technical Conference immediately following the rodeo April 29 -May 2. <br /> Page 1 of 1 <br /> 85 <br />