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MN Broadband Task Force May meeting: BEAD updates, precision ag and service learning opportunities

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We learned about sustainability and precision agriculture. We learned about the American Connection Corps. And we got an update on BEAD funding. Not much has happened in the last month but folks had lots of practical questions. OBD emphasized the fact that the BEAD grants will follow federal guidelines, not state rules. The BEAD focus is ubiquitous coverage over meeting the Minnesota 100/20 goal, which means if a provider is the only one to bid on a particular unserved area the quality of service and application doesn’t matter as much as location.

Last round of MN Broadband grant application were received last week. Here’s the break down:

  •  40 applications for border to border totaling $47M – only $30 available
  • 28 applications for Low density totaling $79M – only $20 available

There was a brief update on legislative issues. Sounds like the bill to allow OBD to redistribute broadband grants funds based on need. No discussion on MN House Labor Omnibus Bill.

Also – the video is poor here because there was no camera in the room of the onsite meeting. I was able to screenshot PTT slides.

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ILSR awards Jim Baller Lifetime Achievement Award

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The Institute for Local Self Reliance reports on good news for colleague with MN connections…

Whether it’s supporting municipal broadband projects, fostering public-private partnerships, or advocating for laws and policies to improve local Internet choice, for decades James (Jim) Baller has distinguished himself as a telecom attorney fighting for the rights of communities to decide their own digital futures.

This week, Baller’s trailblazing career was honored at the 50th Anniversary Gala of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) in Washington D.C. where he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award as ILSR celebrated a half-century of advocacy work to promote and sustain vibrant local communities.

Another take on MN providers opposing broadband aspects of MN House Labor Omnibus bill

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Another industry source is picking up the issue of Article 10 of the House Labor Omnibus bill. Here’s the short take on the article from the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society…

  • Minnesota ISPs are protesting new legislation that includes labor provisions about prevailing wages and certification programs
  • ISPs warned that the legislation could stall broadband expansion efforts through the BEAD program
  • The battle in Minnesota is yet another example of how state authority can influence the broadband sector

Office of Broadband Development received 68 applications for broadband grants

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The Office of Broadband Development reports…

Sixty-eight (68) applications for the 2024 Round 10 Border-to-Border and Low-Density Broadband Development grant program were received by the May 10th deadline. The Office of Broadband Development has initiated the challenge process required by Minnesota law (Minn. Stat. 116J.395 subd. 5a) concurrent with its review of the applications. A list of the applications filed and instructions on how to file a challenge, if necessary, are available on our website and under the “2024 Application Process” tab.  A downloadable GIS layer of the 2024 Round 10 Grant application areas will be available on our interactive broadband map on or around Monday, May 20, 2024. Any provider wishing to challenge an application must complete the 2024 Challenge Form and submit via email to deed.broadband@state.mn.us by 4:00 p.m. Friday, June 14, 2024.

If you have any questions, please contact our office at 651-259-7610 or via email at deed.broadband@state.mn.us.

Minnesota’s Whole-of-State Cybersecurity Plan provides security for entities such as Woodbury

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Route Fifty reports…

In Woodbury, Minnesota, the city’s 11-person IT department faced a difficult decision. The cybersecurity hardware and software they adopted three years ago was up for renewal, and the new price was more than they wanted to pay.

For a CrowdStrike antivirus solution, the city had a 15% discount for the first year through a Center for Internet Security, or CIS, program. The city paid $51 for each of its 400 devices, “so our cost initially was $20,400 for the year,” said Robert James, Woodbury’s information and communications technology director. “When the renewal came around, it was without the initial discount, so it was $24,000 for the year.”

But the Minnesota Whole-of-State Cybersecurity Plan offered a way forward. Developed by the Minnesota Information Technology Services’ Cybersecurity Task Force, the plan offers managed detection and response capabilities through a whole-of-state cybersecurity plan.

They decided to move forward with it…

Woodbury was one of the first localities to sign on.

“Through the Minnesota whole-of-state program, the cost will be $46 per device when the grant program runs out” in July 2027, James said. “We will save more than $14 per device and get more security deployment than with our deployment through CIS. Since we have added more devices in total, this will add up to almost $7,000 in savings for the city every year.”

About 125 Minnesota entities, including Woodbury, have been using the setup since February. Another 80 are coming online soon.

EVENT May 15: MN Broadband Task Force monthly meeting

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From the Office of Broadband Development...

Governor’s Task Force on Broadband

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

10:00 a.m. – 12:35 p.m.

Land O’Lakes Inc.

4001 Lexington Ave N

Arden Hills, MN 55126

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Agenda

10:00 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.   Welcome and Introductions

Teddy Bekele, Chair, Minnesota Governor’s Task Force on Broadband

10:05 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.   Approval of minutes from April 11th and the April 18th Task Force Meetings

10:10 a.m. – 10:35 a.m.   Sustainability and the Connection to Broadband on the Field

Teddy Bekele, Senior VP/CTO, Land O’Lakes

Joel Wipperfurth, Director of Sales, Truterra

Phani Reddy, Product Family Manager, Truterra Livestock

10:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.  BEAD Update

Diane Wells, Deputy Director, Office of Broadband Development

Bree Maki, Executive Director, Office of Broadband Development

10:50 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Digital Opportunity Update

Bree Maki, Executive Director, Office of Broadband Development

11:00 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.                Break

11:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Broadband Overview

Bree Maki, Executive Director, Office of Broadband Development

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  Statewide Fellowship Models

Rebecca Johnson, Program Officer, American Connection Corps

Ken Edwards, Community Partnerships Manager, American Connection Corps

Scott McFarland, Director of National Service, American Connection Corps

12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.                Sub-Group Discussion

12:15 p.m. – 12:20 p.m.                Public Comment, Other Business, June 18th Meeting Plans, Wrap-up

 

Solar storms bring beautiful Northern Lights in MN but disrupt precision agriculture

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While most of us were gleefully chasing down the Northern Lights last weekend, the New York Times (via Yahoo News) reports on another side…

The powerful geomagnetic storm that cast the northern lights’ vivid colors across the Northern Hemisphere over the weekend also caused some navigational systems in tractors and other farming equipment to break down at the height of planting season, suppliers and farmers said.

Many farmers have come to rely on the equipment, which uses GPS and other navigational technology and helps them to plant more efficiently and precisely by keeping rows straight and avoiding gaps or overlap. But over the weekend, some of those operations in the Midwest, as well as in other parts of the United States and Canada, temporarily ground to a halt.

In Minnesota, some farmers who had planned to spend Friday night sowing seeds were hamstrung by the outages. “I’ve never dealt with anything like this,” said Patrick O’Connor, owner of a farm about 80 miles south of Minneapolis that mainly grows corn and soybean.

O’Connor said that after being rained out for two weeks, he got into his tractor around 5 p.m., hoping to spend the night planting corn. When he received a warning about his GPS system, he called a technical help line and was directed to a message saying there was an outage and nothing could be done to fix it.

Ag Web talked about what it means for farmers…

It’s all happening right as farmers are rushing to get the 2024 crop planted.

“The good news is those radio blackouts for GPS may only last for a few hours or half a day,” says Dr. Terry Griffin a Professor & Cropping Systems Economist at Kansas State University. “My message is: if this is a radio blackout then patience is your best bet. Go check the NOAA website and if the planetary K-Index is red instead of green then go have an early lunch.”

Beyond the inconvenience of delayed field work, there could be real dollars lost to such an extended outage.

From an agricultural perspective, Dr. Griffin has been studying the economic impacts of GPS outages for several years. He’s found that even a few hours to half a day of lost GPS signal can come with a cost for farmers. That’s especially true for farmers who miss an optimum planting or harvesting window. Pushing field work later into the season can ultimately cost them yield and performance during the season.

“There are there are some real penalties and real dollars that come into effect when we’re not able to do field work,” Dr. Griffin said.

That said, it depends on the time of year and the regions impacted. A January disruption would likely have less impact than one during planting or harvest.

Dr. Griffin says while GPS satellites have been in use and in orbit for many years – the first launched in 1978 – civilian use of GPS is relatively new.
He believes these new space weather events will come with a learning curve.

“This was the first solar cycle maximum we’ve had that’s going to be big with satellite communications,” Dr. Griffin said. “So, we’re going to find out some things.”

It’s not yet archived but an hour ago, I heard on MPR an interview with the MN farmer from the NY Times article. He talked about how it isn’t just a matter of using the GPS to make sure the rows in the field are straight. The GPS helps keep track of the soil quality, historical needs of the plants and more and distributes seeds and nutrients based location. So it made sense to wait until the solar storm was over rather than forge ahead using “tradition” sowing practices.

Also when asked if he thought this might happen again, the farmer said yes – if it’s happened once, it will likely happen again.

Interesting both in terms of the things the engineers and scientists need to learn about all aspects of precision agriculture and the value that the farmers put on using precision ag tools!

 

 

 

MN Broadband industry associations ask Governor to remove broadband article 10 from House Labor Omnibus bill

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Broadband Breakfast reports…

Leaders representing several broadband providers across the state of Minnesota are publicly urging state lawmakers to drop Article 10 of the House Labor Omnibus bill, citing that it would increase costs, increase bureaucracy, and decrease investments for broadband deployment.

The letter, which was sent to Democratic Gov. Tim Waltz, urged the state to make key changes to the House Labor Omnibus bill, HF 5242.

Here is the content of the letter…

Re: Article 10 of HF 5242 will effectively stop the job of Connecting all Minnesotans to Broadband

Dear Governor,

As you know, Minnesota is in line to receive $652 million in federal BEAD funding to achieve Internet For All, funds that will be matched by an equal amount of private sector investment. All totaled, the BEAD program holds the promise of $1.3 billion in broadband investment for Minnesota.

But today we write you with dire concern that these funds will go unused due to bills progressing through the Legislature that would dramatically increase the cost of BEAD projects, and impose onerous, unjustified new regulations unfairly targeted at the broadband sector.

These provisions are contained in Article 10 of the House Labor Omnibus bill (HF5242). Sections 1 and 2 would effectively require BEAD funded projects to be prevailing wage projects. Recognizing the need to stretch BEAD funding as far as possible to achieve the federal universal broadband mandate, Congress intentionally didn’t apply the Davis-Bacon Act to BEAD. For the same reasons, the Minnesota Legislature hasn’t (until now) considered imposing prevailing wage requirements on state funded last mile broadband projects. Minnesota is going to need every penny of that $1.3 billion (and maybe then some) to reach the remaining unserved Minnesotans. The prevailing wage requirements in Article 10 will guarantee that a substantial number of Minnesotans remain unserved indefinitely.

Sections 3 and 4 of Article 10 are equally problematic for different reasons. Section 3, the only section of the House bill included in the Senate companion, creates an unjustified, burdensome new broadband installer certification program. The labor union backing the legislation has accused the broadband industry of unsafe underground construction practices. After being challenged about this claim, the union hired an organization called North Star Policy Action (NSPA) to write a report supporting their claims. The firm appears to be run by a single individual with no expertise or prior experience in underground construction or broadband. The report admits the data it relied on is “plagued by many unknowns.” Yet the author did not hesitate to make deeply flawed, sensationalized findings. For example:

    • NSPA’s lead finding is that “Underground telecommunications installation is the leading cause of damage to buried infrastructure in the state.” But here is what the data actually shows:
    • From 2020-2022, electric and natural gas utilities were responsible for approximately 16% of all underground construction damage incidents.
    • From 2020-2022, telecom was responsible for 14.45% of all damage.
    • Other industry sectors were responsible for the remaining 70% of damage incidents
  • Omitted from the report is the fact that damages to underground facilities by the telecom sector are on a strong downward trend:
    • 2020: 638 damage incidents
    • 2021: 400 damage incidents
    • 2022: 347 damage incidents
  • NSPA cited “a recent national survey” to find that “57% of telecommunications technicians said they saw safety risks for workers and the public.” The “national survey” was of 1,500 AT&T subcontractors’ employees. AT&T provides no wireline broadband services in Minnesota and will not be eligible for BEAD funding in Minnesota.

We’re not claiming we have a spotless safety record. All we ask for is fact-based legislation. To that end, we’ve proposed alternative legislation that would require appointment of an underground safety task force to ascertain safety issues, and recommended standards to the Department of Labor and Industry. A similar process to the one we are proposing led to agreement this year on a bill updating the Gopher State One Call law that is poised to pass this session with strong industry support.

We greatly value the partnership forged over the past 10 years with the State, building what has become nationally known as the “gold standard” of state broadband grant programs. Let’s not trip over our own feet as we hit the homestretch. We want to be clear: This language will essentially make it impossible for any internet service provider in the state to participate in the BEAD or any other future border-to[1]border grant program. Broadband investment to the remaining unserved areas of Minnesota will come to a halt. Proponents of the legislation may call this a victory, but it will be a hollow one. We do not envy those who will have to explain why the State of Minnesota, with a once in a lifetime chance to finish the job, instead chose to leave $1.3 billion in broadband investment on the table. We ask for your help in preventing this harmful legislation from becoming law.

Connect Willmar Effort almost, but not quite, approved yet

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Last week I reported that Willmar was going to decide on $9.2 million investment in city owned broadband network. Turns out they didn’t. The West Central Tribune reports…

The Willmar City Council on Monday did not take any action on the Connect Willmar Initiative despite being informed April 29 during a work session that it would be asked to consider a number of approvals on May 6 to move the initiative forward.

The City Council was informed by City Operations Director Kyle Box that the operations agreement between Hometown Fiber and the city was not ready for approval, which is the first approval needed before moving forward.

City Attorney Robert Scott noted that the agreement is nearly 99% ready with a couple of blanks to be filled in and given final review by the city and Hometown Fiber. Box informed the council the goal is to have the operations agreement ready for approval within four weeks.

They talk about the project…

“This project is a public-private partnership; the city of Willmar will pay for, build, and be the sole owner of the fiber infrastructure,” Box said. “This model allows internet service providers to operate on the network and provide their services to the residents and businesses of Willmar — the city of Willmar will not be an ISP.”

And the need…

Box reminded the council that survey results reviewed during a work session in January showed that residents of Willmar “understand the importance of bringing this 21st-century infrastructure utility to their homes.”

Sen Klobuchar gets Smart Rural Community Champion Award from NTCA

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Senator Amy Klobuchar’s website reports…

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), co-chair of the bipartisan Senate Broadband Caucus, was presented the Smart Rural Community Champion Award at the NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association Breakfast for her leadership in expanding affordable broadband access. Klobuchar’s Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act was incorporated into the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and has delivered significant federal funding to Minnesota for expanding high-speed internet access statewide. Download a photo here.
“It’s an honor to be recognized by the NTCA, an organization committed to ensuring high-speed internet reaches rural communities across our country,” said Klobuchar. “Internet access is necessary for everything from education to healthcare, not to mention for keeping in touch with friends and family. However, millions of Americans currently don’t have a reliable broadband connection in their homes. That’s why I worked to secure historic funding to deliver high-speed internet to every zip code in America.”
Klobuchar has long led efforts to expand broadband access, support rural broadband, and bridge the digital divide.
In June 2023, Klobuchar announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce had awarded major federal funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to bring reliable, affordable, high-speed internet access to every household in Minnesota. The Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act, Klobuchar’s legislation with Former House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) to expand high-speed internet nationwide, served as the basis for the program created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
In March 2023, Klobuchar and Senators John Thune (R-SD), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), and Jerry Moran (R-KS) reintroduced bipartisan legislation to expand broadband access to rural communities. The Reforming Broadband Connectivity Act would strengthen funding mechanisms for the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Universal Service Fund (USF), which promotes universal access to broadband and other telecommunications services. Currently, the USF is primarily funded through landline fees, disproportionately impacting seniors, who are more likely to use landlines than other Americans.
In February 2023, Klobuchar introduced bipartisan legislation with Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) to strengthen broadband access for rural communities. The Rural Broadband Protection Act would ensure that providers applying for federal funding can reliably deliver broadband to underserved, rural communities.
In July 2021, Klobuchar introduced bipartisan legislation with Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to expand rural broadband access by streamlining the funding process and removing barriers for broadband connectivity in hard-to-serve rural areas.

 

 

Office of Broadband Development Updates: Grant Applications due May 10

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News from the Office of Broadband Development…

Reminder, Border-to-Border and Low-Density applications due May 10th

Reminder that Border-to-Border (B2B) and Low-Density (LD) applications are due in two days. With $30 million available for B2B grants and the remaining $20 million for the LD grants, DEED opened the application window for the tenth grant round on March 12, 2024. Applications are due by 1:30 p.m. Central Time on May 10, 2024.

More information, including an updated Round 10 FAQ, can be found on OBD’s Broadband Grant Program webpage.

Governor’s Task Force on Broadband, next monthly meeting May 15th

The Governor’s Task Force on Broadband will meet next Thursday May 15th at 10 a.m. Central Time at Land O’Lakes in Arden Hills, Minnesota. The agenda will be posted ahead of the meeting on the Broadband Task Force webpage.

OBD April webinar series now available online

The Broadband Development Tuesday Training Series: Navigating PLUS (Permitting, Land Use, and State Systems) has finished and all 4 sessions are available to watch on the Webinar and Recorded Events webpage.

The series features agency experts from Minnesota Department of Transportation, State Historic Preservation Office, Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, Minnesota Historical Society, the Office of the State Archaeologist, and the Department of Natural Resources. In each session, an overview of the agency is provided, as well as information on current processes, timelines, goals, and best practices working on broadband projects and with broadband grantees.

Thank you to all of the presenters, partners, and attendees who made this series possible!

Affordable Connectivity Program wind-down updates April was the last fully funded month of the national Affordable Connectivity Program. The ACP was a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) benefit program that provided eligible households with a discount toward internet service of up to $30 each month, and up to $75 each month for households on qualifying Tribal lands. According to an ACP factsheet, this benefit was used by 23 million households across the United States, including just under 245,000 homes across the state of Minnesota. The FCC announced those enrolled in the ACP will receive a partial credit for the month of May, $14 and $30 for non-Tribal and Tribal enrollees, respectively. In Washington D.C., supporters of the ACP gathered on April 30th to emphasize the repercussions of the benefit ending on those enrolled: nearly half of whom are military families, over half are above the age of 50, and 4 million seniors living on a fixed income. Updates and other resources are posted to the FCC’s webpage.

RESOURCES: Global Accessibility Awareness Challenge and Telehealth Class

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Minnesota State Library Services has some great Digital Equity resources. The following were mentioned in their latest newsletter.

Thursday, May 16, 2024, marks the 13th year of celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). If you’re looking for a way to gain a new perspective on digital access and inclusion, try the No-Mouse Challenge: do work on your computer for 15 minutes without a mouse.

Minnesota IT Services has instructions and a set of handy keyboard shortcuts to get you through it. While you’re there, check out lots of other great resources for creating accessible documents, multimedia, and websites.

And an interesting class…

Telehealth 101 Class: The Doctor Will See You Now

Are people in your community seeking digital access to healthcare and information? Explore the possibilities of telehealth at your library through this new class from the Network of the National Library of Medicine.

Telehealth 101: What libraries need to know (June 10 – July 8, 2024)

This class introduces telehealth, why it’s important, and how it enables people to have greater access to quality healthcare. Explore how different libraries provided patrons in their communities with access to telehealth services.

You will need to create a free NNLM account, but there is no cost to take the course.

MN Senate Republican Caucus not happy with HF5242 and broadband labor stipulations

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The Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus reports…

Minnesota Senate Republicans on Tuesday morning sharply criticized a sweeping transportation, housing, and labor supplemental budget bill from Democrats, slamming it as an “incredibly disappointing” proposal loaded with expensive mandates, regulations, and controversial provisions that will drive up costs for Minnesota families. This legislation passed out of the Senate on a vote of 36-31.

Here’s what they said about broadband aspects of the bill…

Additionally, the labor section of this bill includes one-size-fits-all policies that ignore the unique needs of different types of employers and employees. This includes proposals that jeopardize important broadband projects, make concerning changes to Minnesota’s earned sick and safe time law, and threaten the availability and cost of low-income housing.

“This legislation takes no meaningful steps to increase employment opportunities for Minnesotans or make our state a more competitive place to grow a business,” Senator Gene Dornink (R-Brownsdale), Republican lead of the Senate Labor Committee, said. “While government doesn’t directly create jobs, its policies can either encourage or deter business expansion. That is why we should be passing policies in partnership with both labor and industry. Instead, this bill threatens to shut down pending broadband projects and fails to address the housing crisis.”

  • Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program: The most concerning part of the labor section are changes that will slow or stop broadband development. This restricts who can work on broadband construction through licensure restrictions, threatens all broadband projects, and ultimately increases project costs.

  • Republicans offered key amendments to improve broadband service, including a proposal to take the $9 million from Tending the Soil appropriation and focus these dollars on broadband improvement. Democrats refused to accept these changes.

MN Senate passes HF5242: includes new rules for broadband installers

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The Minnesota Senate DFL reports…

The Minnesota Senate passed House File 5242, the Transportation Supplemental Budget in a bipartisan vote of 36 to 31 early Tuesday morning. The bill, chief authored by Senate Transportation Committee Chair Scott Dibble (DFL-Minneapolis), delivers new funding that improves safety, services, and strengthens Minnesota’s transportation network.

They list highlights but do not detail proposed broadband legislation, which includes more rules for broadband installers. (I wrote about the bill earlier.)

The Senate Journal reports…

Madam Speaker:

I hereby announce the passage by the Senate of the following House File, herewith returned, as amended by the Senate, in which amendments the concurrence of the House is respectfully requested:

HF5242, A bill for an act relating to state government; appropriating money for a supplemental budget for the Department of Transportation, Department of Public Safety, and the Metropolitan Council; modifying prior appropriations; modifying various provisions related to transportation and public safety, including but not limited to an intensive driver testing program, greenhouse gas emissions, electric-assisted bicycles, high voltage transmission, railroad safety, and transit; establishing civil penalties; establishing an advisory committee; labor and industry; making supplemental appropriation changes to labor provisions; modifying combative sports regulations, construction codes and licensing, Bureau of Mediation provisions, public employee labor relations provisions, miscellaneous labor provisions, broadband and pipeline safety, employee misclassification, and minors appearing in internet content; housing; modifying prior appropriations; establishing new programs and modifying existing programs; expanding eligible uses of housing infrastructure bonds; authorizing the issuance of housing infrastructure bonds; establishing a working group and a task force; authorizing rulemaking; requiring reports; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 13.6905, by adding a subdivision;…

Arvig to use Line Extension Grants to serve rural parts of Becker County

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Detroit Lakes Online reports…

Arvig has been awarded grant funding from the Minnesota Office of Broadband Development’s Broadband Line Extension Connection Program to construct last-mile fiber network infrastructure for high-speed internet to 69 unserved locations, according to an Arvig news release.

Arvig was awarded grants totaling $543,244 from the program after submitting successful lowest-cost bids to provide fiber to the locations. Total project funding is $612,244, with Arvig investing $69,000 to cover additional project costs.

The 69 unserved locations consist of seven projects in these areas:

  • Rural Callaway along 260th Avenue
  • Along State Highway 210 east of Henning in Otter Tail County
  • Rural Rochert, including Cotton Lake and the west side of Height of Land Lake
  • Along U.S. Highway 59 and Tee Lake Road south of Detroit Lakes
  • Rural Frazee along 360th Avenue

Construction on some projects could begin as soon as May 2024, with work projected to finish by May 2025.