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Well USDA sure knows where the pueblos are - <br>
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<p align="center"><font size="2"><b><i>USDA Rural Development is an
Equal Opportunity Lender, Provider, and Employer. Complaints of<br>
discrimination should be sent to: USDA, Director, Office of Civil
Rights, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410<br>
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<h3 align="center"><b><b>Rural Development Telecommunications Program<br>
Broadband Grant Program Applications</b></b></h3>
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<td headers="name">Pueblo of Pojoaque</td>
<td headers="amount" align="right">579,767</td>
<td headers="cumulativetotal" align="right">19,596,206</td>
<td headers="location">NM</td>
<td headers="tribeserved" align="left">Pueblo of Pojoaque</td>
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<small><font face="Verdana">The first figure is the latest
application and the second figure is what they have been granted so far<br>
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Now what is wrong with this picture with a population of 1200 people
getting these kinds of grants of about $17,000c each for basic service<br>
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Well I did a " can we help you " call to PJQ a couple of years ago
thinking for the kind of money they were getting from just 1 branch of
the ferderal gov ( They are geting money from several more ) that they
could plan and build a first class REAL broadband network<br>
<br>
> Here is
what I was told.<br>
<br>
<i>" No you don't understand we re not going to build anything, we
will
just use part of the funds to build some tech centers for ( 150)
students conect some basic wireless and then use a couple of $m to
blackmail Qwest to expand and upgrade their existing services and if
they do not threaten them with federally supported competition (
Sacred wind combination ) and cut out their cellular transmission
towers
on the reservation then we just pocket the rest and use it for local
consulting fees etc. "</i><br>
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Sad sad opportunity missed but in their eyes it was just getting money
back that had been stollen from them in the first place so who gives a
hoot<br>
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Sad sad opportunity missed but in their eyes it was just getting money
back that had been stolen from them in the first place so who gives a
hoot<br>
<br>
That money could have made PJQ one of the most wired connected places
in the state with huge economic benefit<br>
<br>
This is probably repeated in multiple pueblos all over the state</font></small><br>
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( : ( : pete</font></small>
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Richard Lowenberg wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> I saw this USDA loan announcement earlier in the week, but held
off posting
it to this list because Open Range <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.openrangecomm.com">www.openrangecomm.com</a>> has no
service areas
in NM. That did not concern me, as there are CLECs, native communities and
other rural providers in NM that have received both grants and loans from the
USDA programs. I did however contact the USDA loan program officer on
Thursday, to ask some questions, since this loan (to be paid back over time,
and matched by a $100,000 private (satellite) company investment) was
previously announced in March of '07. Other concerns have to do with the fact
that this is for unproven WiMax and some satellite access provision, and that
Open Range does not have a public information web site. The URL above, only
gives an email address for their company president, who has never responded to
my contact. The USDA program officer could not answer any of my questions in
this regard. We'll watch and see what happens with this loan and multi-state
rural services project.
Quite a few federally funded projects of this sort do not manifest as
proposed, and some spend received funds, without realizing their
projects. This has been the case with some of the native community
wireless access
projects in NM, as far as my personal inquiries have determined. Having real
needs, and writing proposals is a lot easier than the required long=term
project management, oversight and community outreach/education
follow-through. Unfortunate, at the least.
rl
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Quoting <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ggomes@optonline.net:">ggomes@optonline.net:</a>
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<pre wrap="">It seems that CBS News is not the only party that does not know New
Mexico is a state. USDA provides $267 M to Open Range to fund rural
broadband in 17 states - but no New Mexico.
Gary Gomes
USDA Announces $267 Million Rural Broadband Loan
Mar. 27, 2008
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