6.1d ERMUSR 01-10-2017 Elk River
Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO: FROM:
Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Mike O'Neill—Technical Services Superintendent
John Dietz—Chair
Al Nadeau—Vice-Chair
Daryl Thompson - Trustee
MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
January 10th, 2017 6.1d
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
DISCUSSION:
• In December, The Locating department had a total of 132 locate tickets; consisting of three
emergency tickets, five cancellations, four meetings, 94 normal tickets and 15 updated
tickets.
• Electric Technicians continue with the meter reading, power bill, substation checks, hanging
red-tags, meter read-outs, dealing with meter and off-peak issues, as well as delivering and
installing new meters to commercial customers. They continue to change out the three phase
meters with meters that will be read by radio ERT. Meter changes for Area 2 are being
installed as well as auditing meters from previously acquired areas.
• Metering department is working with Itron to acquire and install replacement software for
MVRS;the new software will give us greater capabilities in meter reading and data sharing.
• The power plant staff did the monthly engine run in December. All engines with the
exception of engine 4 ran well. We are currently working on engine 4 to determine why we
could not get that one online.
• Mapping department is finished with getting entire service territory map updated to reflect
entire system in Esri mapping software. They are now continuing to enter GPS points and
attribute points for our systems assets.
• MV90 software and hardware is on order and we hope to have it installed and up and
running first quarter of 2017.
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