6.1f ERMUSR 04-08-2025Elk River
Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO:
FROM:
ERMU Commission
Chris Sumstad — Electric Superintendent
MEETING DATE:
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
April 8, 2025
6.1f
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• Installed 13 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, held a
safety meeting on excavating and trenching and confined space hazard awareness on
March 26.
• The City's Fleet Maintenance Division is wrapping up our truck and trailer DOT
inspections for the year.
• Continue to dehydrate oil in our switchgear to reduce moisture. We have completed
over 20 and will continue with this process through April.
• Crews are performing equipment checks and thermal imaging of equipment out on our
system.
• GRE completed their maintenance and we switched the Waco substation online on
March 14.
• Crews installed the third transformer at Jonny Pops. The weather cooperated allowing
the bore crew to make short work installing the primary to the site. With the nice spring,
they will be starting soon on spring construction projects.
• Carr's Tree Service finished tree trimming with us on March 20. Road restrictions started
early making it harder for them to get around. Our crews will continue to trim into April.
• Inventory/procurement has taken delivery of our underground wire order for the year.
• 1 attended the American Public Power Association Rodeo and Engineering and
Operations Conference in Sacramento March 28-April 2.
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