Making Connections
RFP Awarded & Broadband Study in Motion…
Before you read this post, we highly encourage you (beg you, frankly) to please, please, please take this broadband survey that the consultant created: click here. After which, please share it widely!!! We need this data if we are to salvage this study. TLDR version of this post: The County awarded the RFP for its…
County Board adds 150K to Study + Civic Federation Panel
We have great news! Based on conversations with Arlington County Board members this summer, the Board and County Manager decided this fall to use leftover ARPA funds to increase the amount of funding for the broadband study (that was initially included in the 2022 budget) by $150,000 [pdf – p. 10], bringing the total allotment to $200,000. The scope and goals of the study have likewise been refined to…
Benefits of Community Broadband Panel Discussion (10/4/2021)
On Monday, October 4, 2021 we had an amazing panel discussion on the benefits of community broadband. As the Arlington County Board takes tentative steps toward exploring the creation of a public option for broadband for all its residents, we thought it would benefit our Arlington friends and neighbors to hear how other communities are…
Proposal on broadband feasibility study
As we noted in our last post, County Board Chair Matt de Ferranti allocated $50K of the 2022 County Budget to study the feasibility of creating a broadband authority to provide internet service to low-income residents here in Arlington. After having met with several Board members after the fact, we learned that the agreed goal…
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