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Board Meeting Minutes

March 31, 2009

The Board of Public Works convened the regular session at 8:30 a.m. at the Marshall Municipal Utilities Business Office. Present were Charles Hird, President; Mike Mills, Vice President; Jim Heinzler, Secretary; and Spencer Fricke, member.

The agenda was approved as presented. On a motion by Mr. Heinzler, seconded by Mr. Fricke, the minutes of the previous meeting were approved as printed.

Electric Production Director Jim Johnson reported that after the completion of the North Street Substation upgrade this fall, a total of eight 4.16 kV breakers will remain at the Power Plant. Currently these breakers are operated manually, endangering the employee who stands in front of the breaker during operation. Adding a remote breaker control to all eight 4.16 kV breakers via our current SCADA system would eliminate the danger to the employee operating the breaker. Adding the remote breaker control would cost approximately $6,000. On a motion by Mr. Mills, seconded by Mr. Fricke, the Board approved proceeding with this project.

Director Johnson reported Unit #5 was taken off line March 20 and will probably not be put back on line until late May or early June.

Representatives of MIOX are at the Water Treatment Plant to try to resolve the leaking problem on the generator cell units in the disinfection facility. The new CO2 tank has been delivered and put in place on the concrete pad.

General Manager Kyle Gibbs indicated the corner posts at the middle gate at the Water Treatment Plant need to be moved to allow better access to the area and help prevent trucks from striking the posts and fence. SMI-CO will do the work for $1,500. On a motion by Mr. Mills, seconded by Mr. Heinzler, the Board approved change order #5 to the SMI-CO contract to move these posts.

Administrative Services Director Ken Gieringer reported that since MMU’s dedicated Internet access through Missouri Network Alliance has been increased, the customer download speeds also need to be increased. On a motion by Mr. Heinzler, seconded by Mr. Fricke, the Board approved the following increases to customer download speeds:

			Current 	 New
			Download	Download
	Tier 1	$30	3 Mbps		4 Mbps
	Tier 2	$60	6 Mbps		8 Mbps
	Tier 3	$90	9 Mbps		12 Mbps

Upload speeds and pricing would stay the same.

Director Gieringer reported customers can now access their electric meter readings through MMU’s web site. Several of MMU’s old trucks have been consigned to an auction being held April 18, 2009.

Electric Distribution Director Jeff Bergstrom reported Nelson Tree Service completed the tree trimming project last week. They have done a very good job. The arc flash clothing has been received. The last set of steel X-braces have been installed for the transmission line repair/maintenance project.

General Manager Gibbs reported the Twenty-Year Employee Recognition Dinner will be held April 28 at Stone Hedge. A quarterly safety meeting was held March 19 with good participation and feedback.

General Manager Gibbs reported the MoPEP Pool agreed to take any savings from wholesale energy costs and put half into a bond reserve account and refund the other half to the member cities. This process will continue for three years, adding a maximum of $2,000,000 to reserves each year, for a total of $6,000,000 at the end of the three years.

Two quotes were solicited for roof repairs to the south office on the Benton Street property. Pat Flinn quoted $3,600 and Watkins Roofing quoted $1,500. The repairs quoted by Pat Flinn are more extensive and should last longer. We are accepting the quote from Pat Flinn.

On a motion by Mr. Heinzler, seconded by Mr. Fricke, accounts payable were approved and warrants ordered issued from the following funds:

	WATER OPERATING FUND		$	 95,238.35
	ELECTRIC OPERATING FUND		$	470,565.60
	SEWER REVENUE FUND		$	 91,074.55
	INTERNET OPERATING FUND		$	 16,395.03
	NATURAL GAS OPERATING FUND	$	  3,932.68
	ELECTRIC CONSUMERS DEPOSIT FUND	$	  4,550.00
	WATER PLANT IMPROVEMENT RESERVE	$	 94,049.34

On a motion by Mr. Heinzler, seconded by Mr. Fricke, the Board voted unanimously to adjourn the regular meeting at 9:18 a.m. to go into executive session to discuss matters related to personnel (Mo. Rev. Stat. 610.021 [3], if authorized). Roll call vote:
Mike Mills yes
Jim Heinzler yes
Spencer Fricke yes
Charles Hird yes