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.:n:v Vn <br /> Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association <br /> December 13, 2012 <br /> To: Municipal Utility Managers <br /> From: Steve Downer <br /> Re: Scholarship Program <br /> MMUA has budgeted $5,000 for its Tom Bovitz Memorial Scholarship Award program. <br /> This program was created as a public relations tool to increase the awareness of public power <br /> and create goodwill in your city for your utility. Consider this paragraph from 2012 winner, <br /> Courtney Wirtanen of Hibbing: <br /> • "While there have been many changes in the utility industry since our local utility was <br /> created, one thing has remained constant—its ability to provide a steady, reliable utility <br /> service at competitive rates to the citizens and businesses of Hibbing." <br /> Wouldn't you like to have high school seniors in your community writing papers like this? You <br /> can, by bringing these materials to your local high school guidance office. Our fund is split into <br /> various prizes and awarded to essay contest winners who plan to attend a post-secondary <br /> educational institution. <br /> Included here is a letter re-introducing this program to your local schools. We rely on you to <br /> forward this information to all your local high schools - public and private. We have also <br /> included scholarship program guidelines and an entry form for you to forward to the schools for <br /> their use. <br /> Here's how it works: The local governing body of the utility picks a local winner. Every <br /> MMUA member may then enter the one local essay contest winner to the state contest. The <br /> deadline for having utilities forward local winners to MMUA is April 19, 2013. Local deadlines <br /> will need to be set earlier, to allow the local governing board time to review the entries. Many <br /> members, with necessary local political support, award their own scholarships locally to <br /> encourage participation. The MMUA Communications/Member Services Committee will select <br /> the first, second, third and fourth place winners statewide. MMUA will announce the winners by <br /> mid-May. <br /> Your local utility is the best information resource. In the essays, we do look for the relevance of <br /> the local utility to the writer's and the local community's well-being. We also recommend visits <br /> to the American Public Power Association and the MMUA websites. <br /> Please call if you have any questions or comments. Thank you for helping make this program a <br /> success. <br /> 3025 Harbor Lane North•Suite 400• Plymouth,MN 55447-5142•763.551.1230•800.422.0119(MN)•Fax 763.551.0459•www.mmua.org <br />