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Click here – Invitation to join the Planning Committee

BPC Committee Leader, 
 
The Texas Broadband Development Office (BDO) is excited to announce that your Broadband Planning Committee’s (BPC) application to participate in the Technical Assistance Program (TAP) has been selected for award. Your committee joins 32 BPCs representing counties with a wide range of demographics and broadband development needs. Each BPC demonstrates unique challenges and barriers that community members face when seeking to close the state’s digital divide.

Would you like to be involved with planning broadband development in Grayson County? Your perspective is needed. Join us in creating a connected future for our community.

We have received certification from the Broadband Development Office for our Broadband Planning Committee.

We will be submitting an application for the Technical Assistant Program https://comptroller.texas.gov/programs/broadband/tap/

If accepted, this means:

• Counties selected to participate in TAP will be assigned to a team of contracted broadband planning and consulting specialists from Cobb, Fendley and Associates.
• The CobbFendley Team will collaborate with the participating Broadband Planning Committee to identify which services are necessary to achieve the county’s broadband goals.
• Services that are selected will be performed by the CobbFendley Team, in collaboration with the local guidance and support of the participating Broadband Planning Committee and/or stakeholders.
• Supporting the CobbFendley Team may look like:
  • Facilitating as a local point-of-contact. 
  • Representing the local interests and goals of the county.
  • Facilitating community outreach through localized public communication channels.
  • Providing local insight or information access to any extent necessary and possible.  
  • Providing approval of the local County Broadband Plan.  
  • Attending the presentation of the county’s plan to the BDO.  

Helpful Links – 

Digital Opportunity for Texas

Texas Broadband Development Office

Texas Rural Funders

NDIA_Coalition-Guidebook

Best Practices for States and Localities to Advance Digital Equity

USDA Rural Development Community Connect

 

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