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Elk River -- Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO: ERMU Commission MEETING DATE: August 13, 2019 SUBJECT: Staff Update ACTION REQUESTED: None FROM: Mike Tietz —Technical Services Superintendent AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: 6.1d DISCUSSION: • In July, the locating department had a total of 546 locate tickets consisting of seven emergency tickets, 7 cancellations, 463 normal tickets and updated tickets. This is a 5% increase in volume of tickets from the previous month. • Electrical Technicians continue with updating the power bill, substation checks, disconnects/reconnects, dealing with customer meter and off-peak issues. Meters have been ordered for the transfer of Areas 7 & 8. • On July 18, staff ran Engines 1, 3 & 4 without any issues. Engine 2 was not run as it was found that water had entered the fuel tank. The engine has been isolated and taken out of service at this time. We are working on getting quotes to get it repaired. • Weekly meter reads continue to go well. Staff continues to perform meter audits around the system as time allows and has been discovering a number of instances of vegetation blocking access to the meters. These customers will be notified about correcting the issues • Mapping department continues to update points and attributes for all of our systems assets within the ESRI ArcView GIS system. We recently started experiencing licensing issues due to an increased number of users in the GIS system. With the limitations of the current licensing structure, we will need to upgrade our licensing agreement with ESRI. To cover this unbudgeted expense, staff will be re -allocating approved budget funds from other Technical Services Capital Projects to pay for the upgrade to our licensing agreement; the projects being deferred are the AMI Pilot testing, and Fiber Extension Buildout projects. Power System Engineering (PSE) will be assisting with the ESRI upgrade. Page 1 of 2 116