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[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: Think people's sponsored resolutions. This is how surgeons and institutions are made. It's Thursday, March 26. We are off the floor working on our capital hazard. We do have one decision that we have to make that will help Scott with the spreadsheet and a dollar amount and language. And John is working on our next draft. He will be here in about ten minutes or so about the ten minutes cycle. So I want a conversation, a follow-up with James and Troy. They had a conversation with a member of the broadband board, who is one of our colleagues, representative in Siberias. Can you share with us what So you want to
[Troy Headrick (Ranking Member)]: essentially, the prognosis for any sort of match funds or support from broadband board right now is pretty slim. So there are two sets of grants coming out of those. These are all federal grants coming out of the board. They're called Bead grants, Broadband Equity, something AD. Two pots of money. One is the What's the word? Not
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: deployable.
[Troy Headrick (Ranking Member)]: Yeah. Deployable and non deployable. The deployable is for getting the fiber out there. Nond deployable grants are for what you do with the fiber once it's there. This project would fall within the non deployable grants. No state has received those grants yet. And there is no real anticipation that those federal grants are going to arrive anytime soon. Certainly not predictable. There's no indication that those conversations are happening. She was remembering this, so I don't know if it's accurate, but somewhere in the vicinity of $100,000,000 of the grants.
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: For For each each state.
[Troy Headrick (Ranking Member)]: But not anticipating any time soon that the Feds are going to release those grants or have an action plan for those grants. It's a long way of saying the likelihood of getting any money out of the board for this project is pretty
[James Gregoire (Vice Chair)]: But more around none.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: So I would say we need to stay close to what we were going to put in, and where we need some of the other funding you talked about, we possibly put some there, but I would say we pretty much stay almost whole on this.
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: Yeah, well,
[James Gregoire (Vice Chair)]: we had talked about was just dropping it to 3,000,000 instead of 3.3, so it's an easier number to track.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: It's funny, I was gonna say 3,000,000.
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: Okay, we've got the ESP. So what I'm hearing is 3,000,000 for WiFi with language. That 3,000,000 about this is what John, I think, is working on to look at language between the letter we sent last year and the memo that was sent to us from ADS yesterday to pick up pieces of that planning, development work with DOC, start installing it and report back to us. So is that where we are at 3,000,000 with the language? Hopefully John has the language in his work. Questions
[James Gregoire (Vice Chair)]: though. The
[Unidentified Committee Member]: first one is for Troy Headrick. Think I understand it, but the deployable, that is only for towns that don't have broadband. No, not deployable. It's running the fiber. Yeah. So the fiber we're
[Troy Headrick (Ranking Member)]: doing hardware goes, but it's running the bubble.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: Okay. So our hardware doesn't get us up there. So
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: that is the deployable one, right?
[Troy Headrick (Ranking Member)]: Deployable. Yeah.
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: And the deployable is more
[Troy Headrick (Ranking Member)]: Non deployable.
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: Non deployable. It's what you
[Troy Headrick (Ranking Member)]: do with it once it's there. Consistent.
[James Gregoire (Vice Chair)]: So that could be thought of is, deployable will be like running it to a property and the non deployable able will be within a property.
[Troy Headrick (Ranking Member)]: Is that the trajectory I of mean, learned about this. So
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: 3,000,000 cash with language. We've agreed that we keep the 26,000. We don't reallocate that for the ag fair. Right. And we will send them a letter after the fair.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: Yep.
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: We've put the balance of the bond, which is about 39,000.
[James Gregoire (Vice Chair)]: Without that 26, it's $13,413
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: So just put that in Major Maynum's Saints. And then whatever the balance is and the cash
[James Gregoire (Vice Chair)]: Right now, if you spend 3,000,000, you have 1.25. Put
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: that with the women's specifically. Yes. Did you want okay. So John must be listening to us.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: Hi, John.
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: Just kinda He just text. You want $513,413 added to major maintenance.
[James Gregoire (Vice Chair)]: That's what you decided
[Troy Headrick (Ranking Member)]: to do.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: And I
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: have a placeholder cash provision for women's correctional facility with no dollar figure. Yes to major maintenance. And let me just say 3,000,000 for Wi Fi. And what would be the cash balance?
[James Gregoire (Vice Chair)]: If you did $3,000,000 for Wi Fi, you'd have
[Unidentified Committee Member]: one, two, five Hang
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: on, folks. One, two
[James Gregoire (Vice Chair)]: $5.00 $0.00 0. 1 and a quarter million left over for women's.
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: Yes, the major main difference of 3,000,000 for WiFi and balance 1.25 to be put out when it's put in. I beat my fingers.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: So can I state the obvious in the form of a question? I think I just did. But the $3,000,000 is basically meant to force the hand of someone else. Because do we remember from a previous memo how long it takes to actually do all this work? We don't. We do. We don't.
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: We don't, but we don't defeat the fire.
[James Gregoire (Vice Chair)]: It doesn't appear it's going to happen if we don't.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: I would agree with that.
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: Shawn's going to come back with you, Scott. No. It's just kind of to oh, you know what language is missing?
[James Gregoire (Vice Chair)]: Uh-oh. We
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: didn't have the the juvenile center language in here, did we?
[Troy Headrick (Ranking Member)]: Oh, right. Has that been written?
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: We had some appropriations bill.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: So they just made it yourself with theirs.
[James Gregoire (Vice Chair)]: The one that's staying with fire hazard. Yeah, it's right here, yes. Not Yes. Doing a pause.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: Done. I need more messages.
[Unidentified Committee Member]: Nothing management is busy.
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: I wanna get this done, but I don't wanna rush it through. It is. Okay? We have to do it tomorrow morning to go to the doctor think the party be better. It's a bit of time.
[Troy Headrick (Ranking Member)]: You wanna be going short, she said.
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: We have a whole lot
[James Gregoire (Vice Chair)]: of conflict points left, just making sure we get the language right that money mentions. So
[Alice M. Emmons (Chair)]: while we're on hold, think it'd be good if we just got off your YouTube pajamas. It'd take another ten minutes, five or ten minutes, so it might be good just to go off your check.