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Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO:
FROM:
ERMU Commission
Chris Sumstad — Electric Superintendent
MEETING DATE:
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
February 11, 2025
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SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• Installed eight new residential services, which involves the connection of a secondary
line once the customer requests service.
• Joe Schmidt, Safety Instructor from Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association, was here
on January 29 and 30 and held safety meetings on annually required topics: A
Workplace Accident and Injury Reduction program, Bloodborne Pathogens, Personal
Protective Equipment, and Employee Right To Know.
• The City's Fleet Maintenance Division started performing our annual DOT inspections on
our trucks and trailers. This process continues through March.
• We are planning for the spring start to the construction season by lining up our jobs. We
are seeing some new commercial projects and plans for at least one housing
development.
• The final connections for the Heritage Mill transformer took place last week.
• Staff is finalizing some plans on underground primary placement and a transformer
install during the month of March at the JonnyPops location.
• Rebuild of overhead Feeder 65, north of our North Substation along Highway 169 is in
progress. This rebuild will extend to the landfill in four phases.
• Working on annual performance reviews with employees.
• Replaced two streetlight poles in Elk River this month that were casualties of the
weather and vehicles.
• The month of January is always busy for the inventory staff as they close the work
orders from the previous year.
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