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Humboldt broadband push: $1M USDA planning grant and tribal $40M last‑mile award advance rural builds
Summary
Cal Poly Humboldt and broadband partners told supervisors that middle-mile lines are largely funded or built, tribes and providers are advancing last‑mile projects and a $1 million USDA grant will prepare shovel-ready plans for 23 small communities to improve chances for construction funding.
County leaders heard a progress report Tuesday on broadband projects across Humboldt County that county officials said will expand middle-mile connectivity, fund last‑mile builds in tribal areas and prepare dozens of small communities for future construction grants.
“Most of the middle miles that we had envisioned in that plan so long ago are now either built or funded and on the way to being built,” Connie Stewart, Cal Poly Humboldt’s executive director of initiatives, told the Board of Supervisors.
Stewart highlighted a recent award: “Hoopa... was awarded... almost…
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