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UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO:FROM: <br />ERMU Commission Chris Sumstad– Electric Superintendent <br />MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />June 14, 2022 6.1h <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br /> Installed 18 new residential services, which involves the connection of a secondary line <br />once the customer requests service. <br /> Finished relocating our infrastructure for the Highway 169 Redefine near Highway <br />th <br />10/101 and Highway 169/5 Street. This completes the relocation plans for ERMU. <br />Work for the projectgoing forward should be smaller in scope, focusing on power needs <br />for lighting, signals, cameras, etc. as the project progresses the next few years. <br /> Finished the first phase of the rerouting and installing of primary line for the new lab at <br />Cargill Animal Nutrition. We will return for phase 2 once the lab’s shell is up, installing a <br />new three phase service and new primary underground line in Fall 2022. <br /> Started rebuilding a portion of the overhead line along Highway 10 in front of the old <br />Saxon Motors. Taller poles and larger wire are being installed. The new services for the <br />apartment buildings currently under construction near there will be served from this <br />new line. <br />We have started to rebuild a section of overhead line along Viking Boulevard east of <br />County Road13. Sherburne County is starting a road construction project in July and our <br />line needed to be relocated farther back in the right of way. <br />Crews beganworkfor the Cargill Feed Mill project on May 31. We need to relocate a <br />section of underground primary line and install a three-phaseservice for the new mill. <br /> Joe Schmitt from Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA) was here on May <br />26 and 27 and trained staff on Confined Space Entry. <br /> Rich Maxwell from MMUA was here on May 24 and presented the quarterly Job Training <br />& Safety presentation. The topic was meter socket safety. <br />Mitch Girtz and Tyler Meyers attended MMUA Underground School in Marshall, May <br />10-13 and Scott Thoreson was there as an instructor. <br /> Matt Duitsman started as our temporary line worker on May 11. He is an Elk River <br />native and just recently graduated from the lineworker program atMinnesota State - <br />Wadena. <br />______________________________________________________________________________ <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />170 <br />