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Utility Commission Meeting Monday, April 6, 2026 6:00 PM at Utility Office Building Members Present: Robert Affeld, Doug Lee, Dick Evans, Bart Coons, Mayor Wegener, Nick Gahlman, Alex Smudde Members Absent: Ross Canniff Also Present: Pam Manke Schwark, Cheryl & Don Braun, Leo Kucek I. The meeting was called to order at 6:00 PM and roll call was taken. Motion by Coons/Lee to approve the agenda. Motion carried 4-0. II. Motion by Coons/Affeld to approve the minutes from the previous meetings. Motion carried 4-0. A. Public Appearances/Comment. 1. Cheryl & Don Braun to discuss sewer lateral concerns. They have had the lateral replaced from the house to the curb and they are having back up issues, with further review there is an issue with the lateral in the street. Cheryl is asking for the city to take care of this; cost is estimated at $10,000. The Commission is going to review the ordinance and then will revisit Braun’s issue. 2. Leo Kucek from Applied Technologies to provide an update on progress of Disinfection Upgrade. Leo’s been working with the DNR and the Wastewater team on metering and downstream effects. III. Monthly Business: A. Approve Vouchers and Checks. Motion by Evans/Lee to approve payment of WPPI invoice for $311,351.89 and checks of $235,554.21. Motion carried 4-0. B. Review Prior Month Income Statement. C. Council Acts Affecting Utility. none D. Consumption Loss. E. Review Totals of Delinquent Customers. IV. Report of Officials: A. Utility Accountant. Absent. Pam discussed updating the DPA. Will be on agenda for next month. A. Electric Superintendent 1. Discuss and possibly approve resolution authorizing borrowing from WPPI Energy. Loan is for substation expansion and will be issued 10-2026. Payments will be covered by ATC. Motion by Lee/Coons to authorize borrowing $500,000 at 0% for 10 years from WPPI. Evans AYE, Lee AYE, Coons AYE, Affeld AYE. 2. Projects Update. Attended MEUW foremen’s round table. Apprentices are continuing their schooling and only have a week left before moving to step 3 and step 2 as apprentice. Continuing to work on mapping and GIS for Open Point. Tree trimming is continuing on the goose trail. Changed transformer out on Western Ave due to a leak so there was a short outage from 9AM-11AM for the repair. There was a circuit operation downtown from an industrial customer with a breaker fault, at this time there is nothing we can do. Performed a generator repair to the pump at Well #2 and Utility Office, there is no thermostat on the block heater looking into adding one. Contacted Irby about bad hot line clamps we are finding, have had no outages. Mini excavator trailer picked up. Rate case is moving along, and we have completed PSC’s data requests. B. Water/Wastewater Superintendent 1. Review, discuss and possibly approve sewer lateral repairs a 318 W North St. Noted under public appearances, no other action taken. 2. Projects Update. Attended Rural Water Conference. Completed upfitting on the new truck. Received response back on the PSC complaint, said there was no basis for complaint. DNR is drawing up public education violation from 2024, stating it was not formally closed out; we will be sending out public education information to 9 customers who may not have received it originally. Landia onsite for post start up, we found damage to the impellers. There will be a supervisor on site 04-09 to inspect along with MSA. Same time MSA and Staab will be completing a 12-month warranty walk around. Gas line and flue repairs were completed by Klecker’s. We are waiting on Alliant to remove the extra meter. We sent the service trucks and other items to the Wisconsin Surplus Auction and Lebanon Sportsman’s Auction; these items are doing better than expected. Ordered compactor for Mini and Trench Box expected in June. Received flagpole and plan to have installed soon. Lift Stations #1 and #4 were cleaned 04-06. Found we will need to repair Manhole D56 on W. North St at N. Fairfield Ave.; will be repaired by Aqualis for an estimate of $3850. VI. President: Job Descriptions will be added to next month’s agenda. VII. Mayoral Comments: Thanked all for years of service. VIII. Old Business: none V. New Business: none Motion by Evans/Coons to adjourn meeting at 8:21 pm. Motion carried 4-0. Minutes recorded by: Pam Manke Schwark