Come to think of it, in my experience vehicles and construction equipment were both eligible expenses in the grant programs I was involved in.
If you’re considering grant funding then putting a trencher, HDD machine, and associated trucks and trailers as expenses on your application is probably going to be ok. As I recall, NY State asked us to justify why we needed 3 bucket trucks and a Bobcat T450, and my response was (in a more long winded way) “because we can’t build a fiber network without bucket trucks and digging equipment”. We also had trailers to transport the equipment and a pole barn to store them in. All of it was ultimately approved. Buying another company on the other hand was not an eligible expense. That’s somewhat of a complication because the people to operate all that equipment can be harder to get than the actual machines. As far as your original question, I think that’s harder than you might imagine. CAF is a federal program but at least some of it was managed by states. If you took info from the feds saying they have $X of CAF funding and data from states saying they have $Y of CAF you have to know to not add those together. NY State also didn’t distribute all of it’s funding in one go, they didn’t award all available funding in round one, so they had several successive rounds. If you took announcements from different times saying “we have $x for broadband” and add them all together then you’d be dramatically overcounting. Really they had $x at the beginning, then the remainder of $x – previous awards + new appropriations for the new fiscal year. Bottom line if you didn’t do a deep dive on this you’d add up the same piles of money multiple times and think there were a skillion dollars more than there really were. -Adam From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 2:16 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals im trying to fund buying out a small underground construction outfit. I can barely afford to eat, let alone pay entry into WISPAmerica and the associated bail when the WISP degenerates get me drinking On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:34 PM Josh Luthman <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Go to WISPAmerica 2022 in NOLA. Broadband Billions on Monday. 10s of billions maybe a few 100 billion in just the last couple of years. On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:31 PM Steve Jones <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: CAF, RDOF, State level, COVID, etc Is there a compiled list of all the funding for connectivity is out there? Im just looking for the numbers, not for funding. I'm curious how much has been dispersed in the last decade, how much is pending dispersal, how much is pending allocation and how much is pending legislation. Its got to be readily available info somewhere compiled -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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