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Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO:
FROM:
ERMU Commission
Thomas Geiser —Operations Director
MEETING DATE:
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
June 4, 2024
6.1e
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• Working through maps for the new GIS mapping system that we plan to move forward
with in the future.
• Attending weekly Advanced Metering Infrastructure meetings with other ERMU staff.
• Working through 2024 projects and equipment/material needs.
• Hired a temporary apprentice lineworker on May 28. Adam Jurek will work with us until
freeze up.
• Working through Otsego substation transformer upgrade and new East substation with
DGR Engineering.
• Working with Ames Construction on supporting our four feeder crossings out of Station
14.
• Working on scheduling equipment demos for our 2025 equipment replacement needs.
• ERMU staff hung United States flags on poles along Evans Street, Main Street, and
Jackson Avenue. The flags will be in place until the week of Labor Day.
• Staff finished primary wire replacement on 202nd Avenue and moved on to Sandpiper
Addition for primary wire replacement as well.
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