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Elk River Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO: FROM: ERMU Commission Mike Tietz—Technical Services Superintendent MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: September 10, 2019 6.1d SUBJECT: Staff Update ACTION REQUESTED: None DISCUSSION: • In August, the locating department had a total of 452 locate tickets consisting of six emergency tickets, seven cancellations, 398 normal tickets, and 41 updated tickets. This is a 5% increase in the 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 will be arriving this week for Areas 7 & 8. Meter changeouts will be done on Sept. 17. • On August 22, staff ran Engines 1, 3, and 4 without any issues. Engine 2 has not been repaired yet as we are still working on getting quotes. We have only received one quote so far. • 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 vegetation issues 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 are meeting with Power Systems Engineering (PSE) on Sept. 10 to develop a plan for our ESRI upgrade as well as a disaster recovery backup plan for the GIS server. • Engineering has been working on making improvements to our SCADA system along with getting our substation backup meters back online. • Survey stakes were placed on August 26 marking the location and elevation of the West Substation Equipment Storage Garage.The permit was picked up on September 5 from the city. City Building Official Bob Ruprecht allowed us to have the floor drain exit to daylight rather than a holding tank. This will save us some costs on the excavating as Page 1 of 2 217