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��i <br />Elk River � <br />Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: FROM: <br />ERMU Commission Theresa Slominski — General Manager <br />MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />July 12, 2022 6.1a <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• Our new General Manager, Mark Hanson, will be joining our team July 18, the week <br />following our Commission Meeting. He will serve as Deputy General Manager until I <br />retire at the end of the year. He will be set up in the GM office starting in July and I will <br />set up in a currently unused space right around the corner from the GM office. We are <br />working on an onboarding process where he will be introduced at various meetings, <br />meet staff, and can learn all about ERMU. He will be able to attend the Minnesota <br />Municipal Power Agency's annual meeting on July 26. <br />• At June's meeting, Commissioner Mary Stewart noted during the outage event of May <br />30, the call she received from the after-hours provider notifying her that her power had <br />been restored occurred several hours after her service was restored. We investigated <br />this more and I wanted to report back to the full commission. The outage was restored <br />in stages, Mary happened to be an earlier restoral after approximately two hours, while <br />the final customers weren't restored for approximately six hours. We don't currently <br />have the information available to be able to have our crews report back which specific <br />customers have been restored at each stage and so no calls are made until the last <br />customer is restored. Once we have Advanced Metering Infrastructure implemented we <br />can make additional improvements on our system that can better identify individually <br />affected customers in outage situations. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />:• <br />