6.1d ERMUSR 03-13-2017 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:
March 13, 2017 6.1d
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
DISCUSSION:
• In February, The Locating department had a total of 109 locate tickets in February;
consisting of one emergency ticket, four cancellations, one meeting, 88 normal tickets and
seven 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.
• The new Field Collection System software has been loaded on the new metering PC and is
up and operational.
• The power plant staff did the monthly engine run in February. 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 in and the machine is up and running. The metering
technicians took part in a 3 day training course to bring them up to speed on the software.
• Locator Dick Wagner's last day with ERMU was February 28tH
• Michael O'Neill has resigned his position with ERMU as the Technical Services
Superintendent; his last day at ERMU was March 3rd, 2017.
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