FY 23 APPROVED CAPITAL BUDGET

Broadband Infrastructure

GENERAL Project Number: Council District:

Operating Budget Impact

A234103 Multiple Various

Revenues:

Location:

Expenditures: Cost Savings: None:

X

Est. Debt Service:

(annual)

Expended/Encumbered as of 2/9/22: $0

Project Schedule/Status:

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project will provide funding to expand the Harford Metro Area Network (HMAN) backbone and lateral dark fiber to unserved areas of the County. This expansion will allow an Internet Service Provider to build infrastructure from the backbone and laterals and to provide internet service to these unserved areas. Appropriation authority is provided in this budget to accept Federal and State grant funding through grants such as the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the Statewide Broadband Infrastructure grant programs, and other various grant mechanisms for broadband expansion to unserved regions. For FY 23 Federal authority has been reallocated from the Highways Infrastructure Capital Project @ $10,000,000; the HCSO Fleet Replacement Project a@ $6,000,000 and State appropriation authority from the HMAN Capital project in the amount of $6,000,000.

EXPENDITURE SCHEDULE

Approp Total

Cost Element

Prior

FY 2023

FY 2024 FY 2025 FY 2026 FY 2027 FY 2028

TOTAL

Engineering/Design Land Acquisition

0 0

0 0

Construction

25,000,000 25,000,000

25,000,000

Inspection Fees

0 0

0 0

Equipment/Furnishing

Total Cost:

0 25,000,000 25,000,000

0

0

0

0

0 25,000,000

FUNDING SCHEDULE

R3161 ARPA R3399 State Other R3199 Federal Other

10,000,000 10,000,000 9,000,000 9,000,000 6,000,000 6,000,000

10,000,000 9,000,000 6,000,000

0 0 0

0 0 0

Total Cost:

0 25,000,000 25,000,000

0

0

0

0

0 25,000,000

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