6.1d ERMUSR 05-08-2018 Elk River
Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO: FROM:
ERMU Commission Mike Tietz—Technical Services Superintendent
MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
May 8, 2018 6.l d
SUBJECT: _
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• In April, The locating department had a total of 278 locate tickets consisting of one
emergency ticket, 7 cancellations, 8 meetings, 235 normal tickets and 24 updated tickets.
This is a 126% increase in volume of tickets from the previous month. The locators
continue to gather GPS points as time allows.
• Electric Technicians continue with updating power bill, substation checks, disconnects,
reconnects, dealing with meter and off-peak issues, as well as installing new meters for
commercial customers.
• The weekly meter reads continue to go well. Staff continues to perform meter audits
around the system as time allows.
• On April 27, staff ran Engines 1, 2 & 3. Engine#4 was not run based on
recommendations from outside expert opinions pertaining to the deterioration of the
counterweight locknuts on cylinders 6 &7. We are working on getting the specifications
together for the replacement locknuts.
• Mapping department continues to enter GPS points and attribute points for all of our
systems assets within the ESRI ArcView GIS system. The ArcGIS Server has been
configured and is up and running.
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