UPDATE - Midco-Washington County Grant 8-6-20228/16/22, 5:38 PM Mail - Kenneth Cammilleri - Outlook
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Fwd: [EXTERNAL] - Scandia - MidCo / Washington County Grant for 2023 Project
Robert Wilmers <robert.wilmers@icloud.com>
Tue 8/16/2022 1:38 PM
To:Marschall Smith <Marschall.smith@gmail.com>
Cc:Kenneth Cammilleri <k.cammilleri@ci.scandia.mn.us>
Marschall, Ken,
FYI
Bob
Begin forwarded message:
From: Robert Wilmers <robert.wilmers@icloud.com>
Date: August 16, 2022 at 1:35:43 PM CDT
To: Melissa Wolf <Melissa.Wolf@midco.com>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] - Scandia - MidCo / Washington County Grant for 2023
Project
Thanks Melissa,
I know you folks are very busy and this moves your planning forward from the normal
cycle with Scandia, but I didn’t want us to miss an opportunity with Washington County
before the funds are gone.
The homes left number looks right.
I appreciate your attention to this matter.
Thanks again!
Bob
On Aug 16, 2022, at 12:46 PM, Melissa Wolf <Melissa.Wolf@midco.com>
wrote:
Hi Bob!
Apologies for the late response! Thanks so much for your note and the heads up on
the remaining Washington County funds. We have set up me for next week with our
regional team to look at the remaining areas we see in Scandia and will put together
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homes and ini al costs. Based on that, we can put together another applica on for
Washington County. A quick check looks like approx. 425 homes le . I know you also
sent some areas where roads will be under construc on in the next few years so we
will take that into considera on as well.
We did submit grants this round for the border-to-border round, but had commi ed to
two communi es last year (when we though there would be a grant round in 2021 and
much smaller than the $95MM) so we commi ed to comple ng and submi ng those
applica ons this year.
Thank you!
Melissa
Melissa Wolf
Government Relations Manager
Office: 6512145493
Melissa.Wolf@Midco.com
Midco.com
From: robert.wilmers@icloud.com <robert.wilmers@icloud.com>
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To: Melissa Wolf <melissa.wolf@midco.com>
Cc: Jus n Forde <jus n.forde@midco.com>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] - Scandia - MidCo / Washington County Grant for 2023 Project
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Hi Melissa,
Jus n told me last week that MidCo has decided not to apply for a Minnesota
Broadband Grant for Scandia for the current grant period. I understand MidCo must
carefully choose which areas to apply for state grants and Jus n explained there are
other MidCo projects much larger than Scandia’s with a greater need for grant money
from Minnesota.
However, I’m asking MidCo to work again with Washington County to help us leverage
the $432,000 Scandia has set aside for an Internet expansion project in 2023.
Today I learned there’s only $640,000 le in the Washington County grant program out
of the $2 million they started with. My concern is that those funds will run out before
MidCo can submit a plan for a grant given the planning for next year may not be ready
un l the end of the year, as has happened in the past.
Is there any way for MidCo to accelerate the planning process for Scandia’s 2023
project and get in line with the county for a grant before the funds run out?
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We’re grateful for all the past support MidCo has provided to Scandia and hope you’ll
be able to help us again to get, “the most band for our buck”.
Sincerely.
Bob Wilmers
robert.wilmers@icloud.com
23219 St. Croix Trail N.
Scandia, MN 55073
218-343-1246