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Lancaster County Broadband Authority elects officers, reviews APB VADI closeout and remaining service gaps
Summary
At a regularly scheduled meeting, the Lancaster County Broadband Authority elected officers, discussed the technical closeout of APB’s VADI grant and outstanding gaps in household broadband service while assigning follow-up tasks on outreach and interagency coordination.
The Lancaster County Broadband Authority elected its officers and reviewed the status of local broadband projects, including the technical closeout of APB’s VADI grant and outstanding unserved or serviceable addresses.
The authority unanimously elected Mr. Kidd as chair; Kevin Beam was elected treasurer; Carolyn was elected secretary; and Russell was elected vice chair. Michelle was absent from the meeting, and members agreed to defer approval of minutes until she could participate.
Members spent the bulk of the meeting on project status and customer complaints related to APB’s build and state/federal grant interactions. Authority members reported APB had indicated the VADI grant work was being closed out and that paperwork was submitted in November 2024. The board discussed that APB’s build included 2,165 addresses associated with the VADI project and that, because of that inclusion, those addresses may not show as “homes passed” on some public dashboards that use older data sets.
Board members noted several areas of continuing confusion for residents: (1) federal…
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