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CPUC webinar explains BEAD matching-fund rules, waiver process and evaluation scoring
Summary
California Public Utilities Commission staff and a planning partner outlined matching-fund rules for the federal BEAD program, including a 25% baseline match, allowed in-kind contributions, waiver criteria for high-cost areas, and scoring incentives for higher matches.
Laura Sasaki, a project supervisor at the California Public Utilities Commission, and Ziggy Rifkin Fish of CTC Technology & Energy explained matching-fund requirements for the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program during a CPUC webinar.
The webinar detailed where match can come from, how in-kind contributions are valued, the process for requesting a waiver in high-cost census block groups, and how proposals will be scored during the subgrantee selection process.
The matter matters to local applicants and prospective subgrantees because matching funds affect project eligibility, scoring and whether areas with high deployment costs can be included in BEAD-funded projects.
CPUC staff said the BEAD program requires at least a 25% match of total project costs for most project areas. "The b program has a match requirement, and it's, 25% of total project cost," Ziggy Rifkin Fish said. He explained that match can be provided in cash or as in-kind contributions such as…
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