E-rate Discounts - New Jersey

FACTS ON NJ E-RATE FUNDING COMMITMENTS - WAVE ONE
November 23, 1998

Details

NATIONAL INFORMATION

More than 30,000 applications received for the Universal Service Fund by the Schools and Libraries Corporation (SLC).
All applications will be notified over coming weeks in waves two, three and possibly four.
This first wave notifies agencies that submitted approximately 3,000 applications.
Total amount of Universal Service Funds committed in the form of a discount on eligible services for this wave: $73 million.
All 30,000 applicants throughout the nation will be notified within the next few weeks.

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION

Total amount of Universal Service Funds committed to New Jersey in the form of a discount on eligible services in the first wave: $2,024,573.79. (2.8% of national total in the first wave.)
Total number of awards in NJ: 188. (NJ comprised 6.6% of the national awards.)
Number of agencies notified in the first wave are: 82. Many agencies filed more than one application for separate services in the following categories:

Public School Districts: 63 (five Abbott districts received awards in this wave)
Non-Public Schools: 17
Public Libraries: 2

Top 12 awards:

DISTRICT	TOWN	COUNTY	DISCOUNT	AMOUNT*	NUMBER
Perth Amboy**	Perth Amboy	Middlesex	90	$248,739.30	2
Orange**	Orange	Essex	87	$197,664.00	2
Upper Deerfield Twp.	Seabrook	Cumberland	60	$131,400.00	15
Passaic Co. Voc Tech	Wayne	Passaic	80	$106,492.80	3
Fairlawn	Fairlawn	Bergen	40	$96,804.00	1
Matawan-Aberdeen	Matawan	Monmouth	41	$94,084.34	2
Springfield	Springfield	Union	40	$62,759.20	5
Cranford	Cranford	Union	37	$62,487.96	4
Kearney	Kearney	Hudson	47	$55,807.80	1
Nutley	Nutley	Essex	40	$48,252.00	3
Somerville	Somerville	Somerset	50	$47,573.73	2
Keansburg School District**	Keansburg	Monmouth	75	$47,544.75	3

*Amount = Funds committed in the form of a discount on eligible services (telecommunications and dedicated services, Internet access, and internal connections).

**Abbott districts.

NOTE: Two other Abbott districts received funding - Millville ( 64% discount - award = $9,288) and Burlington City (63% dscount - award = $6,930)

Total awards for Abbott districts = $510,166.05

Only two applications were funded for internal connections: Perth Amboy and Northstar Charter School. Both agencies receive a 90% discount on internal connections for local area networks for a total $261,005.58

Lowest amount of award in this wave: Fanwood Memorial Library, Union County, for telecommunications service (40% discount) with a fund commitment of $64.

For additional details on funding commitments by services requested (telecommunications, Internet access and internal connections) and discount bands see table from SLC and department's website [www.state.nj.us/education].