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Beauregard Parish committee awards WAN RFP to add Carver site, reviews mixed sales‑tax receipts
Summary
The finance committee accepted a request for proposals to add Carver as a wide‑area network site and reviewed monthly sales‑tax fund changes, reporting a modest increase in one fund and a large decrease in another; officials also flagged potential federal Medicaid and E‑rate changes.
The Beauregard Parish School Board finance committee voted to accept a request for proposals to add Carver as an additional wide‑area network (WAN) and internet service site and directed staff to add the site to the district's existing agreement.
The addition covers the remainder of the current agreement and, according to the RFP summary presented to the committee, the vendor price to add one site is $12.99 per month. District staff said the E‑rate program — a federal discount program for schools — typically covers 80% of eligible charges, leaving the local share…
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