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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: November 12, 2019 6.1d SUBJECT: Staff Update ACTION REQUESTED: None DISCUSSION: • In October, the locating department had a total of 462 locate tickets consisting of one emergency ticket, 10 cancellations, 376 normal tickets, and 75 updated tickets. This is a 1.1% decrease in volume of tickets from the previous month. • Electric Technicians continue with updating the power bill, substation checks, disconnects, reconnects, dealing with customer meter and off-peak issues, as well as installing new meters for commercial customers. Staff collected oil samples from all substation transformers and regulator banks for the yearly testing for dissolved gas analysis. • On October 22, staff ran Engines 1, 3 and 4 without any issues. The repair of Engine 2 is tentatively scheduled for the week of November 18. We will confirm the vendor's schedule the week before. • 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. Power Systems Engineering (PSE) has been working on our ESRI upgrade along with the disaster recovery backup server build for GIS. PSE is working directly with city IT staff on this. • Testing of the Landfill Gas Plant relays for engines 2, 3 and 4 has been completed.The relay for Engine 2 was replaced with a spare while it is sent back to Scweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) for warranty repair. Page 1 of 2 231