6.1d ERMUSR 09-12-2017 Elk River
Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO: FROM:
ERMU Commission Mike Tietz—Technical Services Superintendent
MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
September 12, 2017 6.1d
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• In August, The Locating department had a total of 484 locate tickets consisting of six
emergency tickets, 6 cancellations, 10 meetings, 399 normal tickets and 57 updated
tickets. This is a 14%increase in volume of tickets from the previous month. Met with
the City Administrator and Community Operations and Development Director regarding
their need for a Sewer Locator. The city will retain the responsibility for this position and
will continue to move forward in the hiring process.
• Electric Technicians continue with the meter reading,power bill, substation checks,
hanging red-tags, meter read-outs, disconnects, reconnects, dealing with meter and off-
peak issues, as well as delivering and installing new meters to commercial customers.
• On August 29, Dave Nathe's electric service was reconnected.
• Staff tested Waco Bank#2 recloser controllers and found that everything passed. United
Services Group (USG) also tested the reclosers for the official signoff. Staff will compare
USG's test results with our test results and develop testing standards.
• Staff continues to perform meter audits throughout the system. We have received a
number of complaints from the recently acquired Connexus residential customers
pertaining to workspace clearance requirements around the meters. These clearances are
minimum safety requirements found in National Electric Code (NEC) 110.26 and
National Electric Safety Code (NESC) 125. Meters for Acquisition Areas 3 and 4 arrived
and preparations have begun in anticipation of the September 19th transfer.
• The power plant staff did the monthly engine run in the last week of August. All engines
ran well with no problems.
• Mapping department continues to enter GPS points and attribute points for all of our
systems assets within the ESRI ArcView GIS system. Staff reports that mapping of
electric surface structures is about 75%complete. Transformers are about 45%done and
poles are around 40% complete.
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