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Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO: FROM:
ERMU Commission Mike Tietz—Technical Services Superintendent
MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
August 14, 2018 6.1d
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• In July, the locating department had a total of 544 locate tickets consisting of two
emergency tickets, 17 cancellations, 8 meetings, 446 normal tickets and 65 updated
tickets. This is a 12% decrease in volume of tickets from the previous month.
• Electric Technicians continue with updating the power bill, substation checks,
disconnects, reconnects, dealing with meter and off-peak issues, as well as installing new
meters for commercial customers. Staff has been providing load profile data for the city
to compare usage with Iserlohn, Germany. Staff has completed the task of updating
demand meters to the appropriate reset date for all of the cycles. Staff has also been
working on programming equipment in preparation for the transfer of Areas 5 & 6.
• The weekly meter reads continue to go well. Meter audits of the system have been nearly
completed for the initial assessment. Staff has started revisiting accounts that were
notified of not being in compliance with our standards to follow-up on their progress.
• On July 26 staff ran Engines 1, 2 & 3. Engine#4 has not been repaired yet. Another
vendor has been contacted about the replacement locknuts due to no response from the
previous vendor we were working with.
• 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. Our GIS/Mapping Technician was very appreciative
for the opportunity to attend the ESRI User Conference the week of July 9th. Attached is
the report from the conference. Also, Staff recently completed the integration of the water
mapping database with the new mapping server. This allows for us to easily GPS water
items with our recent purchase of GPS equipment. This will also streamline the creation
of maps and the sharing of information among internal ERMU online map viewers/users.
ATTACHMENTS:
• 2018 ESRI Conference Recap
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ESRI Conference Re-Cap—July 9-13, 2018—San Diego
Attendee:Angela Hauge
Position: GIS/Mapping Technician
The conference as a whole was very informative. Technology in mapping is always changing and
updating to fit the needs&wants of users. Mapping knows no bounds. It is used in government,
utilities, conservation, commercial business, etc. The expo area section was about two football fields in
size with ESRI or ESRI partnered companies displaying visual or hands-on examples of their products.
Through the week, classes/presentations took place all day and ranged from thousands or just a couple
dozen attendees, depending on the topic.
In my time at the conference, I wanted to get an array of information so that I could build onto
what we are working on currently/near future. I also wanted to see what is up and coming for the
industry. It was all beneficial. From ArcGIS Enterprise tips and tricks to Insights &Survey123 creation, in
classes,there was always something that was learned or gave me a better grasp of how to navigate
getting the many extensions of ArcGIS initiated. Since the conference, I have created a template in
Survey123 for Storm/Damage Reports, and I hope to get that brought to our Enterprise in the near
future. Another class that I was glad to attend was one on Story Maps. It is a mapping presentation
extension that allows a user to tie maps to a visual presentation; a mapping PowerPoint, if you will. It
allows a little interaction with map data and presents it with the help of several template styles. This
will be a nice tool for meetings or sending information to those who need locational or asset feature
information.
There were many opportunities to network with other mapping professionals &to hear advice
or examples from their experience,which is very helpful. There are many ways to work on mapping and
everyone has a different set-up. By having some in-person resources, it opens the doors to know what
not to do, or just ponder if something would be a good idea to utilize in our mapping practices. I also
took time to converse with ESRI about our new Enterprise integration hiccups. They mentioned the use
of"Data Store"to try to get around our multiple database snafus. This is currently being looked into by
our ESRI sales rep. He contacted me this past week to follow up on the whole conference experience
and get feedback.
Overall, I found this conference to be extremely informative and eye-opening to see what to be
on the lookout for in our future mapping. ESRI is good at giving insight into what is coming, so that users
can try their best to navigate their mapping data uses in the same direction as the ensuing technology.
This conference is not something that is needed annually, but every 3-5 years I believe we would benefit
from attending. This type of timeline would allow us the chance to identify mapping changes/updates
or getting user insights to stay fresh and on track with our endeavors.
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