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UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO:FROM: ERMU Commission Mike Tietz –Technical Services Superintendent MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: February 11, 2020 6.1d SUBJECT: Staff Update ACTION REQUESTED: None DISCUSSION: • In January, the locating department had a total of 92 locate tickets consisting of 4 emergency tickets, 2 cancellations, 72 normal tickets, and 14 updated tickets. This is a 2.1% decrease in volume of tickets from the previous month.The locators have been collecting GPS data again as time allows. • Electrical Technicians continue with updating the power bill, substation checks, disconnects/reconnects, dealing with customer meter and off-peak issues. • On January 30, staff ran Engines 1 & 3 without any issues. The vendor for the repair of Engine #2 has guaranteed us that he will be on site the week of February 11. • Weekly meter reads continue to go well. Staff continues to perform meter audits around the system. • Mapping department continues to update points and attributes for all of our systems assets within the ESRI ArcView GIS system. Staff has also been working on development of a Backflow Prevention Inspection application for the water department to use within the GIS system. • The West Substation Equipment Storage Garage was completed on January 31. • NISC AppSuiteand SmartTrack training was conducted January 21-23 which included most of the field staff and supervisors. We went live with the system on February 4 and havebeen working through some minor issues and processes during the first few days. Generally, everything is working as we expected. • On January 30, we had 7 field services staff members attend the Advance Driving Skills Course at the Minnesota Highway Safety & Research Center in St. Cloud. The training consists of classroom instruction followed by skills-based development exercises. ______________________________________________________________________________ Page 1 of 1 105