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~i Elk River -^~ Municipal Utilities 13069 Orono Parkway • P.O. Box 430 Elk River, MN 55330-0430 Apri16, 2009 To: Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission John Dietz Jerry Gumphrey Daryl Thompson From: Troy Adams Subj: Company Vehicle Take-Home Practice 55 Phone: 763.441.2020 Fax: 763.441.8099 Currently Elk River Municipal Utilities has a number of company vehicles that are taken home by the employees. Per commissioner request, the following information is submitted for commission review on the details and justification for the current practice. In general, the reason for all of these take-home vehicles is that they are part of the Utilities' on- call emergency preparedness to protect the safety of the public and quick restoration to disrupted utilities. There are six vehicles that have previously been approved to be taken home by staff. These vehicles are for the General Manager (now the Director of Operations), Water Superintendent, Electric Superintendent, Security Technician, an Electric Department On-Call employee, and a Water Department On-Call employee. There is one additional employee whose situation warrants consideration for taking a company vehicle home; this is for the newly created position of Supervisor of Technical Services. The Security Technician is on-ca1124/7. Over the past two years, there have been about 80 after- hours calls taken. In that same time period the Security Technician has needed to respond for an emergency repair about 5 times. This ability to take care of customer emergencies is part of providing excellent customer service. The electric and water departments both have employees in on-call weekly rotations. These two employees are first to respond to an emergency or outage call. Over the previous two years, the electric on-call vehicle has been deployed approximately 198 times and the water on-call approximately 155 times. These employees are required to carry an on-call phone/pager and remain in town during their week of on-call and are compe-nsated for this responsibility (engaged to wait). Over the past two years, the Electric Superintendent had been called out approximately 10 times and the Water Superintendent had also been called out approximately 10 times. The number of times the General Manager had been called out over the last two years is undocumented.