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Year 9 (2006-07) Wave 4 E-rate Funding Committed
~ Form 486 Now Available! ~
Message Posted May 16, 2006

Congratulations to the following 33 Pennsylvania schools and libraries that will be receiving Year 9, Wave 4 E-rate Funding Commitment Letters, totaling $1,021,807.07. A summary of each commitment is listed below, and detailed information will posted on the SLD web site under Funding Commitments in a few days at: http://www.sl.universalservice.org/funding/. If you find that your funding commitment letter does not arrive in a timely manner, please call the SLD ASAP to get a replacement (888-203-8100). All Year 9 correspondence will be sent in YELLOW.

A wave will be arriving every week until the Year 9 funding is exhausted. This wave consists of requests for Priority 1 services (telecom and Internet). There are many, many more waves coming (there have been a total of 48 so far for Year 8), and your commitment likely will be in one of the upcoming waves.

NEXT STEP: FILE THE 486 NOW!  (The Year 9 Form 486 is now available)

This form tells the SLD 3 things:
1) that they are authorized to pay invoices (either BEAR or SPIFs)
2) that your technology plan has been approved (and by which SLD-certified approver). Note: If your technology plan has not yet been approved by PDE or other certified approver, you may not file the 486 until it has been approved.
3) that you are CIPA compliant.

Tips for Filing the Form 486
* For applicants requesting discounted bills this year, the service provider must receive a copy of the 486 approval letter before they can begin discounting your bills. So the sooner you file this form, the better.

* The 486 should be filed electronically under the "apply online" section of the SLD's website at
http://www.sl.universalservice.org/menu.asp. And the Form 486 PDF typically works better than the Interview version.

* The PDF version seems to skip around while you're completing it, but in the end, all questions are answered and inserted into your form.

* If you file the 486 before the funding year begins on July 1, 2006 (and I strongly encourage you to do so), you MUST check item 6A on the Form 486 (to signify early filing). If you file the 486 on or after July 1, then you can ignore this box.

* If you're CIPA compliant, you can also skip boxes 6B and 6C.

* For Item 7, Column F should list 07/01/2006.

* For Item 11, if you are not a consortium, and you are CIPA compliant, you should only check 11A.

* Print a copy of the 486 after you hit submit, but before you eCertify because after you eCertify, it doesn't permit you to go back to the form.

* If you don't have a copy of your Year 9 Form 471 handy, wait until you receive your Funding Commitment Decision Letter in a few days. Both forms contain your Entity Number, 471 #, FRN #s needed to complete the 486.

If you have any questions, please contact me at jtschell@comcast.net.


E-rate Year 9, Wave 4

Applicant        Amount        
Alternative Learning Center      $      15,363.65      
Baldwin-Whitehall School Dist    $      97,810.92      
Beaver Area School District      $      27,336.00      
Berks County Intermediate Unit #14       $    246,956.46       
Bethlehem Area Voc-Tech School   $      18,358.62      
Bishop Carroll High School       $      11,011.44      
Broadway School          $           681.81    
Carbon Career and Technical Institute    $        7,366.75     
Career Institute of Tech         $      15,200.76      
Central Elementary School        $      15,840.00      
First Philadelphia Charter School for Literacy   $      38,238.91      
Friendship House School          $      43,223.87      
Hampton Township School Dist     $      28,075.60      
Highlands School District        $      75,767.00      
Holy Family School       $      13,233.24      
Intermediate Unit 18     $      19,050.88      
Lancaster County Career & Tech Center    $      25,962.05      
Lourdesmount School      $      31,696.16      
Oil City Area School District    $      49,844.41      
Pennsylvania School for Deaf     $      24,000.00      
Quaker Valley School District    $      46,080.00      
Queen of The Universe Day Ctr    $        1,134.00     
Roberto Clemente Charter School          $      17,115.19      
Saint Marys Catholic Elementary School   $        1,618.08     
Scotland School for Veteran's Children   $      24,300.00      
Seneca Highlands IU 9    $      19,632.60      
St Benedict School       $        1,233.60     
St Joseph High School    $      10,313.68      
St Lucy Day Sch-Visual Imprmnt   $        1,344.00     
Steel Valley School District     $      39,894.56      
Timothy Academy School District          $      11,958.05      
Upper St Clair Twp District      $      31,964.78      
West Middlesex Area Sch Dist     $      10,200.00      
Year 9, Wave 4 Total     $  1,021,807.07       

Julie Tritt Schell

jtschell@comcast.net
www.e-ratepa.org
(717) 730.7133 (voice)
(717) 730.9060 (fax)

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