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UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO:FROM: <br />ERMU Commission Mike Tietz –Technical Services Superintendent <br />MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />August 11, 2020 6.1i <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• In June, the locating department had a total of 597 locate tickets consisting of 6 <br />emergency tickets, 467 normal tickets, 2 boundary survey tickets,4 non-excavation <br />tickets, 99 updated tickets, 7 cancellations, and 12 locate meets. This is a 16.2% <br />decrease in volume of tickets from the previous month. <br /> <br />• Electrical Technicians continue to do weekly meter reads, service orders, updating the <br />power bill, weekly substation checks, dealing with customer meter issues and off-peak <br />concerns. The electrical techs continue disconnecting the remaining off-peak radios on <br />thesystemas time allows. Approximately 50% of the 496 radios have been <br />disconnected at this time. <br />• On July 23, staff ran generators #1, #2, & #4 without any issues. <br />• Mapping department continues to update points and attributes for our systems assets <br />within the ESRI ArcView GIS system. The AppSuite/ESRI integration is expected to be <br />completed with the next iVue upgrade to version 2.48 on August 13. Staff continues to <br />assist the water department with on-call rotation support. <br /> <br />• Connexus Energy utilized a line recloser tie along Highway 10 on July 28 and 29 to <br />provide power to their members while they did some work on their lines. MMPA has <br />adjusted this usage off our July power bill. <br /> <br />• EIR Testing & Maintenance Co. is repairing the three spare voltage regulators we had at <br />the power plant. We plan to use these to replace the three on County Road 13 that <br />need repairs. We anticipate having them in service by the end of August. <br /> <br />• We took delivery of the replacement locator F150 pickup #14 from Elk River Ford on July <br />10. We will be sending the previouspickup #14 to auctionin September. <br />______________________________________________________________________________ <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />104 <br /> <br />