6.1d ERMUSR 01-08-2019 Elk River
Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO: FROM:
ERMU Commission Mike Tietz—Technical Services Superintendent
MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
January 8, 2019 6.1 d
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• In December,the locating department had a total of 136 locate tickets consisting of six
emergency tickets, 3 cancellations, 97 normal tickets and 22 updated tickets. This is a
46%decrease in volume of tickets from the previous month.
• Electrical Technicians continue with updating the power bill, substation checks,
disconnects, reconnects, dealing with customer meter and off-peak issues, as well as
installing new meters for commercial customers. Staff continues to infrared image the
Station#14 substation feeder circuits to identify potential equipment failures. On
December 19 Engines 1, 2, 3 & 4 were ran with no issues being reported.
• The weekly meter reads continue to go well. Staff continues to audit meters for non-
compliance with our clearance standards as well as looking for tampering of equipment.
• Mapping department continues to enter GPS points and attribute points for all of our
systems assets within the ESRI ArcView GIS system. We experienced a catastrophic
server failure that resulted in a complete rebuild and reinstall of the GIS server. Staff has
been working with city IT and ESRI personnel to troubleshoot and repair the server. We
will be working with city IT staff to develop a backup plan to prevent this type of failure
in the future.
• Engineering has been working on testing relays for the power plant generators as well as
working with staff on the testing of equipment out in the field.
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