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Elk River ,
Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO:
FROM:
ERMU Commission
Mike Tietz —Technical Services Superintendent
MEETING DATE:
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
April 9, 2024
6.1g
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• In March, the locators processed 243 locate tickets. These consisted of 205 normal
tickets, 5 emergency tickets, 21 updated tickets, 3 cancellations, 5 meets and 1 non -
excavation. This resulted in a 120.9% increase in tickets from the previous month and is
a 9.7% decrease from the prior March.
Electrical technicians completed 502 service order tasks, updated the power bill,
addressed customer meter issues and any off-peak concerns.
• The Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) residential water meters and residential
electric meters continue to be installed in new services. The electrical technicians have
been busy changing out our Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) meters to AMI meters
around the system. We are still working through the initial setup processes with
Allegiant before we move into the mass meter deployment. We will continue to read
AMR meters via drive -by method until we have fully deployed all the AMI meters.
• For the month of March, staff did not run generators.
• One of my staff members returned to work on April 1, performing light duty tasks.
Great River Energy began utilizing their feeder tie with us on April 1, at the Station 14,
bank 3 substation. They have indicated that they plan to use this tie through the month
of May.
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