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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 />April 9, 2024 <br />6.1g <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• In March, the locators processed 243 locate tickets. These consisted of 205 normal <br />tickets, 5 emergency tickets, 21 updated tickets, 3 cancellations, 5 meets and 1 non - <br />excavation. This resulted in a 120.9% increase in tickets from the previous month and is <br />a 9.7% decrease from the prior March. <br />Electrical technicians completed 502 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 Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) meters to AMI meters <br />around the system. We are still working through the initial setup processes with <br />Allegiant before we move into the mass meter deployment. We will continue to read <br />AMR meters via drive -by method until we have fully deployed all the AMI meters. <br />• For the month of March, staff did not run generators. <br />• One of my staff members returned to work on April 1, performing light duty tasks. <br />Great River Energy began utilizing their feeder tie with us on April 1, at the Station 14, <br />bank 3 substation. They have indicated that they plan to use this tie through the month <br />of May. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />99 <br />