6.1d ERMUSR 02-14-2017 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:
February 14, 2017 6.1d
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
DISCUSSION:
• In January, The Locating department had a total of 157 locate tickets;three of them being
emergency tickets, five cancellations,two meetings, 108 normal tickets and 14 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 areas already acquired.
• 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 January. 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 the service territory map updated to reflect our
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 in and the machine is up and running. Training will now
begin on the new software programs.
• Dick Wagner has announced he will be retiring; his last day will be February 28. Dick has
been the longest serving ERMU employee in our history; almost 38 years. There will be a
retirement gathering in the office lunchroom on February 24 from 2:00 p.m.to 4:00 p.m.
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