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DocuSign Envelope ID: AEK006C-30A54332-AF1E-D6ACDCECFAF7 Attachment A respective regions as necessary and appropriate per the willing partnership and invitation of the county or tribe. County Extension offices will provide logistics and administrative support. This project will include a specific evaluation component designed both to inform program development and adaptation for improvement, and to provide a culminating evaluative report of the project which can inform future BAT and digital equity work in Washington and elsewhere. Deliverables narrative: The heart of this work is local digital equity planning. SATs are a proven model for developing necessary momentum for communities to advance digital equity work and to close the digital divide. To this end, deliverables for this project include the support of existing BAT efforts, and the initial offer of the formation of a BAT in each county and federally recognized tribe which does not currently have an active BAT', the development of a regional BAT support structure, delivery of the NDEET curriculum and support for the development and submission of a county or tribal BAT plan for each county or tribe. All county and tribal BATs will be supported by this project over the term of the project with a combination of local, regional and state -level Extension resources. The project goal is to develop sufficient local support structure to establish a sustainable, productive BAT in each county and tribe, as evidenced by the "success" factors defined above. Each BAT should, to the maximum extent practicable, have representation from public and private organizations, communities representing people of color, social services delivery organizations, schools, health care providers, representation from Tribal Nations, representatives from the hearing impaired and disability communities as well as representatives from the elderly community and representatives from migrant and refugee communities. WSU Extension will conduct, in consultation with WSBO, a questionnaire of each of the 39 counties and 29 Federally recognized tribal nations to gauge their interest in participating in this BAT program, in developing draft digital equity plans, and their interest in utilizing the WSBO resources that provide economic assessment of proposed projects as well as grant -writing assistance provided by third party vendors. As a means to add further value to BAT program participants and other interested attendees, Extension, in partnership with WSBO and the Office of Equity, will work to convene and facilitate up to two digital equity webinars that are optional for all BATS and other attendees. Webinars will share updates about current and future digital equity planning efforts at the state level, sharing best and promising practices and resources, case studies of broadband projects planned, underway and completed, and training as available. These webinars will be required for recipients of the competitive funding grants to support digital equity planning. Funding recipients will be required to actively engage in these webinars. See next area of work for details on funding recipients. ' For those counties and tribes where after good faith attempts a BAT cannot be formed, a regional BAT comprised of multiple counties, or subdivisions of particular counties, may be used.