Yesterday the Public Utilities Commission filed a list of the recipients of CenturyLink Tier 2 funds. For folks who aren’t elbows deep into telecommunications policy…
The Tier 2 Special Fund was created by the Minnesota Performance Assurance Plan (MPAP). The MPAP. a plan proposed by Quest {now CenturyLink d.b.a. Qwest) and approved by the Commission, established wholesale service quality standards and self-executing remedies for failure to meet those standards.
I pulled that definition from the filing itself. In short, Qwest/CenturyLink is penalized when they don’t meet quality standards set out by the PUC. That money has recently been awarded to schools that applied to grants. Below is a list of the lucky recipients…
Minnesota Public Utilities Commission K-12 Telecommunications Grant Recipients
- Blessed Trinity Catholic School(Richfield) – $26,771.00
- Brooklyn Center School District #286 – 5204,182.00
- Chokio-Alberta School District #771 – $64,535.00
- Cook County Public School District #166 – $56,316.80
- Hibbing Public School District #701 – $80,600.00
- Hill-Murray Foundation – $12,660.03
- Lester Prairie Public School District #424 – $14,485.00
- Little Crow Telemedia Network (Hutchinson) – $218,427.00
- Mahnomen Independent School District #432 – $132(029.00
- Minneapolis Public Schools – $490,620.55
- Minneota Public School District #414 – $27,739.03
- Minnesota New Country School District #4007 (Henderson) – $15,172.00
- Montevideo Public School District #129 – $162,828.74
- Mounds Park Academy St. Paul – $67,375.00
- North Shore Community School District #4084 (Duluth) – $42,565.00
- Region 1 School District #869 (Moorhead) – $313,488.00
- Rochester Public School District #535 – $159,750.00
- South Washington County School District #833 – $124,528.71
- St Mary’s Catholic School(Sleepy Eye) – $26,000.00
- St Mary’s School Bird Island – $100,000.00
- St. Francis Catholic School (Brainerd) – $7,200.20
- St. John’s – St. Andrew’s School (Melrose) – $11,611.00
- SW/WC Service Cooperative (Marshall) – $498,328.09
Total – $2,857,212.15
