6.1.b. ERMUSR 11-18-2014 Elk River
Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO: FROM:
Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Theresa Slominski—Finance and Office Manager
John Dietz—Chair
Al Nadeau—Vice Chair
Daryl Thompson—Trustee
MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
November 18, 2014 6.1b
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
DISCUSSION:
We had 2,875 credit card payment transactions in October, compared to 2,730 in September. The
fee for October should be $6,468.75.
An update on the software conversion:
• In a few weeks NISC will be onsite for the CC&B training related to our
conversion. They will arrive late afternoon on Monday, December 1St and will be
here through Friday morning, December 5th. Jennie has been working with them
very closely to set up all of our rates in their system. As we have some rates that
they have not worked with yet, there have been some additional programming
costs.
• Working with the City, the phone system decision has been made and we will be
purchasing the Cisco product. NISC has already ordered the components they
will need to implement our integration with this new phone system and the billing
system. We are right down to the wire for making a decision and having enough
time to install the product and test it before going live in February.
We conducted interviews for the new Accountant position the last week in October and
subsequently offered the position to Jenny Biorn. She accepted and will be starting with us on
December 1St. We are very excited to have her join our team.
To update on the PCAs, we received another credit of$64,269 in October 2014. Through
October's bill, the accumulated PCA total is $714,329. We charged 6 mils in May collecting
$130,131, 6 mils in June collecting$131,188, 2 mils in July collecting$46,277, and 1 mil in
August collecting$26,080. This leaves us the uncollected balance at$380,654. If we receive no
other PCAs, we are below the $500,000 we established as the amount we were willing to absorb
and would have 5 mils to potentially give back. We will continue to monitor this and provide the
updated balances.
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