Post in Minneapolis Wi-Fi: Time to Pull the Contract?
As I understand it, the city's payments are intended to cover, first, Internet
access for all city government services. Beyond that, it covers WiFi access for
city government. And beyond that, allows for access by residents of the city.
This makes it a bit different from a typical utility since it's set up
primarily to provide services to the city and only secondarily to the residents
of the city.