6.1b ERMUSR 02-15-2017 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:
February 14, 2017 6.1b
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
DISCUSSION:
January 17th through the 19th we hosted two NISC developers: John Weber, Product Line
Manager, and Ben Cannady, Requirements Analyst. They met with staff to review the fund
accounting initiative and went through each module to discuss current limitations and requested
enhancements as this initiative is developed. The meeting was very valuable in being able to
meet face-to-face with the developers and openly discuss the pros and cons of the software
related to fund accounting. We are excited and appreciative of the opportunity to be included in
this phase of the development and have offered to be a sounding board and a testing site during
the next phase as the software is actually developed to support fund accounting. NISC's goal for
the fund accounting release is fall of 2018 so our challenge will be trying to be patient until then.
Jennie Nelson, Customer Service Manager, brought in a trainer from Resource Training and
Solutions to provide customer service training for staff. It was a morning session and all CSRs
participated in, as well as the four Specialists and a representative from the other departments. It
was very well received and a great reminder/refresher of how important excellent customer
service is first and foremost to our customers, but also to those we work with internally and
externally.
Preparations are underway for our auditors, Abdo, Eick, &Meyers,to be onsite for fieldwork
Thursday and Friday, March 2nd and 3rd. The City's onsite fieldwork with their auditors will be
the week of March 13th
Two errors were discovered on the summary page of the budget presentation for the water
department and I want to bring them to your attention. The first error was that approximately
$25,000 in miscellaneous revenue was not included. The second error was the capital projects
amount was added instead of subtracted for showing the net contribution to reserves (instead of
an approximate $900,000 increase it is an approximate $200,000 increase.) These are errors in
presentation only and do not impact rates or require any action.
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