6.1b. ERMUSR 09-08-2015 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:
September 8, 2015 6.1b
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
DISCUSSION:
Two NISC Accounting and Business Solutions (ABS) staff members will be onsite the week of
August 31st through September 4th to provide a review and accounting assistance with the
various ABS modules. We have a number of questions on processes and integration between the
Customer Information Services (CIS) and ABS pieces of the software that we hope to work
through that week. Additionally, we have questions regarding the future of the software
regarding municipals and multi-service accounts versus the current co-op functionality the
software was built upon. I will provide a verbal update of the visit at the meeting.
Our new Accounts Payable and Payroll Specialist, Kathy Greenberg, started August 24th and
jumped right in as payroll was due that week. She has been doing payroll and accounts payable
for most of her career and so is catching on very quickly. Learning the software is the priority
and it should be helpful to have NISC here to offer some additional support for a few days.
After meeting with a consultant, I have been working on some transmission items with MISO
reporting,to be able to maximize the return on investments for our transmission assets in the
future. Reporting years 2015 and 2016 would be the first years we would report differently,
(partially in 2015 and the full year in 2016) and this would affect the returns to be received in
2017 and 2018, and of course future years as well. The consultant(MCR) estimated we could
double our return, which currently is approximately$65,000 per year.
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