Below is a list of the broadband projects and activities being undertaken by the County. They fall into two categories, pre-constructions and construction. Work thus far has been focused on preconstruction.

Pre-Construction

Broadband Road Map
This project was funded by a grant from the US Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA) that was awarded to the Central Sierra Economic Development District. Read the report here.

Network Design
Developing broadband infrastructure projects is complex and time consuming. Calaveras County partnered with Golden State Connect Authority (GSCA) in a grant-funded effort to develop network designs for broadband infrastructure that prioritize unserved and underserved locations as part of commercially viable projects. The effort was funded by a $500,000 Local Area Technology Assistance Grant from the California Public Utilities Commission and has three phases:

• Conceptual Design: Produce a preliminary design that represents 100% wireline coverage of the occupiable structures within the County to provide a fiber network design and build cost metrics that will inform areas of interest that will drive the High-Level Design. 
• High-Level Design: Designs are broken down into Areas of Interest with individual cost estimates. 
• Low-Level Design: Limited detailed designs for selected Areas of Interest. 

Broadband Strategic Plan
We will develop a strategic plan for Calaveras County's broadband infrastructure. Funded by a grant from the EDA, through the Golden State Finance Authority (GSFA), an affiliate of Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) of which the county is a member.

Construction

We are currently awaiting approval of $30.8M in broadband deployment projects throughout Calaveras County from the California Public Utility Commission’s (CPUC’s) Federal Funding Account (FFA) program. The map below depicts the project areas that GSCA submitted on behalf of Calaveras County for FFA funding. The FFA website shows that three additional projects were submitted in Calaveras County, one project area was submitted by Comcast, and two project areas were submitted by AT&T.

More information on all four submitted project areas can be found at https://broadbandportal.cpuc.ca.gov/s/objection-page.

Additionally, we will continue to prioritize future projects which may be funded from Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) funds, the Loan Loss Reserve program, and other grant sources.

Planning Policies
Dig once: A policy that guides the approach to including fiber any time a utility trench is dug. This has the potential to dramatically decrease the cost of construction for buried fiber infrastructure. Read the policy here.

Streamline
Work is currently underway on establishing a process for streamlining the broadband deployment permitting process. An informational fact sheet will be uploaded to the website once completed.