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A&E outlines $2.1 billion infrastructure portfolio, highlights broadband grants and BEAD progress
Summary
Misty Anne Giles, Director of Administration, briefed the Section A subcommittee on the Architecture and Engineering division’s long‑range building program, statewide facility inventory work, the Connect Montana ARPA grants, and the state’s BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) allocation and application portal.
Misty Anne Giles, director of administration, told the Section A subcommittee that the Department of Administration’s Architecture and Engineering (A&E) division now administers about $1.45 billion of active infrastructure projects and has a total responsibility of roughly $637.8 million, which together bring the division’s portfolio to about $2.1 billion when recent additions are included.
The A&E division ‘‘administer[s] the long range building program’’ for the state and maintains the statewide facility inventory, Giles said. She described tools the division has developed to increase transparency, including an interactive project map that shows project status — planning, design, construction, warranty or on hold — and that…
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