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<\/a><\/p>\nThe county seeks the community\u2019s Call to Action at the next CPUC meeting by encouraging Calaveras residents and business owners to participate in the public comment process on January 30th, 2025. We need our voices to be heard!
\nThis may be Calaveras County\u2019s last opportunity to be considered for this once in a lifetime grant funding opportunity and we need your help to let the CPUC Commissioners know. An overwhelming show of community and local government support for our pending grant application would significantly impact the Commissioner\u2019s positions.
\nCalaveras County residents and business owners can either attend the meeting in-person or call in via phone to provide your support to Calaveras County GSCA application during the Public Comment period.
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\nPublic Comments are taken as the first item of business at the top of the Agenda.
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\nEach person providing Public Comment only has 1 minutes to do so (one minute goes by very fast \u2013 you may want to write your comment and read it, rather than running out of time while composing your thoughts when
\ncalled upon).
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\nRequest that the Commission award the Calaveras County Federal funding Account Last Mile grant to Golden State Connect Authority in the Round 1 funding pool.
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\nMention that Golden State Connect Authority is a local government entity that will bring an open access, last mile, fiber network to California\u2019s rural counties that will bring choice and competition to rural California, while ensuring that rural residents and businesses have access to future fiber opportunties.
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\nRural California including Calaveras County has been largely overlooked for broadband investment, historically.
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\nAwarding Calaveras County the Golden State Connect Authority grant request will ensure a solid foundation on which the network can be expanded across rural California.
\nThe meeting information is as follows:<\/p>\n
CPUC VOTING MEETING San Andreas, CA….High-speed, reliable, and affordable internet service is essential for modern life. However, many rural communities lack the proper level of internet service to participate in today\u2019s economy. As a result, Calaveras County in collaboration with Golden State Connect Authority (GSCA)have partnered together to design a broadband fiber network that is ready to construct […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,5,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-government","category-news","category-san-andreas","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/CountyLogo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187665,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187664\/revisions\/187665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThursday, January 30, 2025
\nStart Time: 11 a.m. East End Complex Auditorium, 1500 Capital Ave, Sacramento (Downtown Sacramento)
\nCall-in Number: (800) 857-1917 Participate Passcode: 9899501#
\nMore information and the link to January 30, 2025 Voting Meeting webpage for participation instructions: CPUC Voting Meeting 01-30-25<\/a>
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