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��i <br />Elk River <br />Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />ERMU Commission <br />Chris Sumstad — Electric Superintendent <br />MEETING DATE: <br />AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />March 12, 2024 <br />6.1f <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• Installed 9 new residential services, which involves the connection of a secondary line <br />once the customer requests service. <br />• 1 attended the Emergency Preparedness and Restoration Conference hosted by <br />Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA), January 21-22, in St. Cloud. <br />• 1 am currently working on employee annual reviews and lining up spring construction <br />projects. <br />• Crews are repairing maintenance problems found during our equipment checks. Many <br />of the problems are diagnosed with the infrared camera, which when repaired early can <br />prevent outages later. <br />• Joe Schmidt, safety instructor from MMUA, was here February 28-29, and instructed on <br />Emergency Action Plans. <br />• Tree trimming and electric equipment checks continued this past month. The lack of <br />snow this winter has made both of these tasks easier. <br />• Equipment repairs and hotstick/grounds testing was wrapped up this past month. DOT <br />inspections by City mechanics will wrap up towards the end of March. <br />• Early on the morning of February 8, feeder 92 from Station 14 substation opened <br />causing an outage for 900 customers. The cause was tracking to the wires near an <br />overhead pole along County Road 12 causing one phase wire to burn and fall to the <br />ground. The crew was able to put the wire back up, splice it together, and restore power <br />in approximately two hours. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />195 <br />