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��i <br />Elk River <br />Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />ERMU Commission <br />Mike Tietz —Technical Services Superintendent <br />MEETING DATE: <br />AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />March 12, 2024 <br />6.1g <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• In February, the locators processed 110 locate tickets. These consisted of 91 normal <br />tickets, 3 emergency tickets, 8 updated tickets, 3 cancellations, 3 meets, 1 correction, <br />and 1 boundary survey. This resulted in an 18.3% increase in tickets from the previous <br />month and is a 34.1% increase from the prior February. <br />• Electrical technicians completed 535 service order tasks, updated the power bill, <br />addressed customer meter issues and any off-peak concerns. <br />• The Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) residential water meters and residential <br />electric meters continue to be installed in new services. The electrical technicians have <br />been busy changing out our Automated Meter Reading (AMR) to AMI meters around <br />the system. <br />• The contract for meter installations has been reviewed by our legal team and fully <br />executed (attached). This was approved pending legal review at the February meeting. <br />We held our kick-off meeting on March 11 and are working through the initial setup <br />processes before we move into the mass meter deployment. <br />• Integrating National Information Solutions Cooperative with AMI continues to progress <br />as expected. We have resolved most of the identified issues and are currently utilizing <br />Meter Data Management for all AMI meter reads. We will continue to read AMR meters <br />via drive -by method until we have fully deployed all the AMI meters. <br />• For the month of February, staff did not run generators. <br />• One of my staff members will be out due to a medical procedure for approximately six <br />weeks. <br />• The substation apparatus technician has been working on preparing the physical design <br />package for East substation so that we can send this out for engineering review within <br />the next few months. <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />• Allegiant Utility Services AMI Endpoint Installation Agreement - Executed <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />196 <br />