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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: September 10, 2019 6.1a SUBJECT: Staff Update ACTION REQUESTED: None DISCUSSION: • The Board of Directors of the Minnesota Municipal Power Agency (MMPA) met on August 27, 2019 at Shakopee Public Utilities in Shakopee, Minnesota. Both Commissioner Al Nadeau and I were in attendance. The Board discussed the status of the renewable projects the Agency is pursuing. Participation in MMPA's residential Clean Energy Choice program increased over July, with a market penetration that has grown to 3.3%. • As treasurer and a member of the executive board, I was the MMPA board representative at the agency's auditor interviews, September 3 and 4. The agency interviewed two auditing firms.The interviews were conducted at the MMPA office in Minneapolis. • On August 28, Operations Director Mark Fuchs and I met with Eric Messerich, a transmission planner at Great River Energy(GRE). The meeting focused on information discovery and long term transmission system planning. • I had my annual meeting on August 28 with Darrick Moe, the Executive Director of the Minnesota Rural Electric Association (MREA). We discussed recent challenges with cooperative leadership/governance ethical behavior that has been in the newspapers. We also talked about the past legislative session including the conservation improvement program (CIP)joint effort between the cooperatives and municipals. • ERMU was featured in a sponsored article on the American Public Power Association's (APPA) communication, the Public Power Daily. The article was sponsored by National Information Systems Cooperative (NISC) regarding our use of their software and our relationship with them to provide our customers with what they want before they know they want it. APPA interviewed me and our Customer Service Manager,Jennie Nelson. Page 1 of 2 213