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Elk River Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO: FROM: ERMU Commission Troy Adams, P.E.—General Manager MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: June 12, 2018 6.1a SUBJECT: Staff Update ACTION REQUESTED: None DISCUSSION: • The Board of Directors of the Minnesota Municipal Power Agency (MMPA)met on May 22, 2018 at the offices of Shakopee Public Utilities.Neither Commissioner Al Nadeau nor I were able to attend this meeting. The board received an update on the Agency's energy education program which is currently underway at Faribault Energy Park. MMPA is scheduled to deliver a presentation about its energy education program at next month's National Conference of the American Public Power Association. Participation in MMPA's residential Clean Energy Choice program increased over April, with six different MMPA members having new customer signups during the month. Customer penetration of MMPA's Clean Energy Choice program for residential customers increased to 2.8%. Attached are the 1Q2108 MMPA unaudited financials. • The Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA)held their annual Planning Session Board Meeting on June 6 and 7 at their offices in Plymouth, MN. • On Friday June 1, MMUA held their final Government Relations Committee conference call. I am currently the chair of this committee. • The MMUA Summer Conference is scheduled for August 20-22 and will be held at Arrowwood Resort in Alexandria, MN. The 2018 budget included attendance of this conference for all five commissioners. Please check your schedules and let me know by the end of June if you are able to attend. For more details,please visit the following link: https://www.mmua.org/event/summer-2018. • ERMU, Great River Energy(GRE), and MMPA held another conference call regarding power provider migration on Monday May 7. On that call it was discussed that one of the remaining issues to work through relates to our emergency distribution tie points with Page 1 of 2 74