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DocuSign Envelope lD: AE8E006C-30A5-4332-AF1 E-D6ACDCECFAFT Attachment A Countv and Tribal Nation DRAFT Disital Equitv Plan Development e 2022 Legislature provided the WSBO with 53,000,000 to support local digital equity planning efforts fo h of 39 counties and 29 federally recognized tribal nations (recipient(s)that submit a qualifying appli n. ln order to effectively deploy these funds, WSBO will partner with Extension to distribute these fu follow ing these process requirements: . ana that meets minimum qualifications to be developed in coordination with WSBO; a partiall application requirements is as follows o app demonstrates effective plan for utilizing funding toward the completion of a draft or tribal-level digital equity plan, spend plans for baseline funding and total project costs, ando applicant i o list of local sta efforts. ers agreeing to participate in ongoing digital equity planning o a webinar outlining the appl req u irements . baseline funds of 520,000 available every county or tribe who submits a q ua lifying a pplication r competitive funding available up to tot a pplications roject cost based on review and scoring of Extension will oversee the management and developme substantive draft digital equity plans (plans) that will be submitted to wsBo and Extension on or re June 15,2023. Each recipient willproduce a draft digitalequity plan that detai needs of each County or federally recognized tribal nation and propose specific plans and projects promote and support digital equity. The draft plans will identify: o stakeholders involved in plan development ld be developed in orderto o the outreach and groups within the county or tribe that have efforts, including key stakeholders identified in the Bipartisan applicable.'z . process employed to inform the draft plan o local and regional broadband service needs and gaps, including o unserved or underserved locations, and o community anchor institutions without gigabit service. o barriers to digitalequity faced by covered populations as defined in the Bipartisan lnfrastructure Law. . proposed programs sufficient to promote and support digitalequity Executed contracts for this work will include: o factors for Extension monitoring progress of plan development, including monthly summaries of common themes and novel challenges identified by those drafting plans, and . requirement to actively participate in one of two digital equity webinars being co-hosted by WSU, WSBO and the Office of Equity throughout the grant period. Extension will regularly update WSBO on expected unspent funds from this funding opportunity so that WSBO can re-allocate those funds to other digitalequity efforts. To receive reimbursement for this funding and the administrative work to support it, WSU Extension will submit invoices to SBO as counties and tribes submit invoices to Extension. n included in the BAT ructure Law where 2 H.R 3684, https://www.congress.govl1,I7 /bills/hr3684/B\LLS-1"L7h13684enr.pdf