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- The Coldwater Board of Public Utilities approved a Milsoft Utilities outage management system with a base bid of $55,000 plus recurring annual costs of $78,600 over three years. - The new OMS will integrate AMI, SCADA, GIS, and CIS data to model outages and automatically notify customers, targeting full deployment by June 1, 2027. - Coldwater's existing AMI system notifies staff of outages, but larger outages still require manual coordination, a gap the OMS is meant to streamline. - Customers will be auto-enrolled for outage notifications by phone, text, or email with an opt-out, and a public-facing outage heat map is planned.

- The City of Smithville approved a bond sale setting aside about $1.3-1.4 million for water and electric meter replacement after the manufacturer discontinued support for existing units. - The city's current meters are under a Bank of America capital lease that cannot be exited without triggering a default and credit downgrade, obligating payment while new meters are procured. - Staff have held seven or eight vendor meetings and issued a bid process, with Techline's AMI meters favored for backward compatibility and 20-plus years of active support. - The new AMI meters are expected to eliminate manual reads and manual data entry, with…