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WEISER Taking the City of Weisers meter reader position to the next level, namely, meter technician, has been the accomplishment of Natasha McDaniel, who has been a key figure in a minor revolution of sorts for the city organization.

Where it used to take two full-time employees to get the monthly readings from electric and water meters in the city, that duty nowadays falls to one person, McDaniel, and shes assuming considerably more responsibility for the equipment as well.

She not only gathers all the data in the field for generating the next wave of monthly utility customer bills, but also programs new meters and performs wiring for new services, and re-wiring of some existing services.

McDaniel, 37, a 1998 Weiser High School graduate, is a 10-year city employee who got her start as a temporary hire for the Parks Department. That was in the summer of 2007.

Early the following year she was back on the payroll, then as a permanent employee.

Initially she was assigned to the Vendome Events Center, where she helped maintain the facility and performed set-up for events, but in September of 2008 the city switched her job assignment to meter reader, the beginning of a lasting fit.

In 2008 the job was still in its classic, low-tech form, requiring the reader to walk the city streets from meter to meter, visually checking the face of each one for its numbers, and writing those down in a big notebook.

Change was on the horizon, though, and McDaniel would be a central figure in seeing it all through.

Three years ago, then-Electrical Department Supervisor Don Loos was instrumental in getting McDaniel enrolled in a meter technician apprenticeship program that had just been launched at Northwest Lineman College in Meridian. McDaniel said she was the first person to complete the three-year program.

As Weisers first-ever meter technician, McDaniel takes care of meter programming and certain other technical tasks the city had been paying out-of-town firms to perform on an as-needed basis.

McDaniel also has been carrying out the final three major stages of converting Weisers metering to all-digital/all-remotely readable. Ive just ordered our last set for small commercial, and Ive just finished my large commercial within the last six months, McDaniel said on Wednesday. The largest segment of the customer base, residential, was completed earlier.

What does it mean, in terms of efficiency, to be able to read meters remotely?

A route of five hundred meters, when I first started, would take me a full day, McDaniel says. Now, that same route of five hundred meters I can read in an hour.

To get the readings, she just drives her city truck to various locations, where she pulls those neighborhoods numbers in wirelessly while she remains seated behind the wheel of her parked vehicle, using a handheld device that she said looks like a huge walkie-talkie. She added, It took away my exercise program.

Wayne Wallace, who succeeded Loos as Electrical Department supervisor after the latter man retired, said McDaniels attainment of technician status is valuable to the department. She handles all the metering.

And I dont envy her job in any shape or form when it comes to turnoffs, Wallace added, referring to McDaniels role of disconnecting utility customers service whenever they dont pay their bills by the past-due deadline. She does a great job of dealing with customers.

McDaniel, who also puts in hours running any of the several desks in the customer service office of Weiser City Hall, doesnt have a hard time identifying what makes her feel good about the job adding that I think just being a part of the city and working with the public and for the public, she said.

Gaining tech certification for meters was a good career move that also benefited the city.

Basically the meters of the city are the cash registers of the city. If thats not done accurately and consistently,... it affects all the departments, McDaniel said.

On top of her full-time city job, McDaniel performs janitorial duties at the Weiser Police Department and at the Weiser Public Library.

She also leads a full family life, as she and her husband, Ron McDaniel, attend the numerous high school sporting activities in which their two youngest sons participate, and the family is also active with the Indianhead Bowhunters. Natasha and Ron have an older son who has already graduated high school and is currently in the Navy.

Natasha McDaniels stepfather is former Weiser Police Chief Greg Moon.

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