6.1c ERMUSR 02-14-2017 Elk River
Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO: FROM:
Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Mark Fuchs—Electric Superintendent
John Dietz—Chair
Al Nadeau—Vice Chair
Daryl Thompson—Trustee
MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
February 14, 2017 6.1c
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
DISCUSSION:
• Had twelve new services.
• Continue working on collecting data with the GPS for our ArcView maps as time
permits.
• Continue tree trimming.
• Continue to rebuild 165th Ave; this is in Area 2 that we recently acquired from Connexus.
• Working on testing the overhead and underground protective grounds. We are also
testing the fiberglass hot sticks. Both of these are done annually.
• A vehicle hit a three phase pole at 10293 Twin Lakes Road that needed to be replaced.
We also had vehicle hit a street light pole by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
on Railroad Drive.
• There was a semi turning around on 165th Avenue that caught the guy wire by the
railroad tracks; two wires broke and landed on the tracks causing the railroad arms to stay
down until the wires were cleared off the tracks. Worked with the BNSF to get the wires
back up over the tracks.
• Tom Geiser attended a training course that was hosted by Rochester Public Utilities, and
instructed by John Miner with Collaboration Unlimited, January 23-26 in Rochester, MN.
The course was geared towards designing and engineering infrastructure to National
Electrical Safety Code (NESC) standards.
• Mike O'Neill, Tom Geiser and I attended the National Safety Code (NESC)Regional
Workshop that Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA)held in Plymouth,
MN. The one day seminar covered some of the major changes to the new NESC 2017
Edition that was recently released.
• I recently attended the MMUA Job Training and Safety Committee (JTS)Annual
Planning Meeting held January 18-19 in Marshall, MN. The JTS Committee assists in
setting up the upcoming schools that MMUA puts on.
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