The Municipal Infrastructure Program supports municipalities, state and local authorities, non-profits, and other entities established pursuant to Section 99-y of the New York State General Municipal Law to construct open access municipal broadband networks in their communities across the state.
Donor Name: ConnectALL Office
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/25/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The program facilitates a variety of models of municipal broadband and public-private partnership, where eligible public entities, Tribal Nations, municipal utilities and utility cooperatives can partner with private partners like Internet Service Providers, Managed Service Providers, broadband infrastructure builders, and owners. The new infrastructure will be open to Internet Service Providers to provide New Yorkers with affordable, high quality service options. ConnectALL’s Municipal Infrastructure Program is funded by the U.S. Department of the Treasury under the American Rescue Plan’s Capital Projects Fund.
Funding Information
- Total Program Funding: $295.3 million
- Funding Available through this RFA: Nearly $50 million
- Individual grant awards are anticipated to be under $10 million.
Eligible Uses
Eligible uses for program funding include non-capital resources, technical assistance, and the following categories of publicly controlled, open access infrastructure:
- Last-mile fiber connections to Addresses:
- Last-mile infrastructure: The cabling, wires, and/or wireless spectrum and radios that ISPs use to distribute the internet from local Internet Exchanges to network endpoints
- Drops to a building: The cabling or wires necessary to make the connection from passing fiber or cable on a street pole or in-street conduit into a building structure for interior distribution to units
- Fiber connections to Internet Exchange Points or Data Centers:
- Middle-mile fiber: The fiber necessary to transport internet services to a local Data Center where an Applicant is connecting its last-mile infrastructure
- Networking equipment: The routers, switches, and other equipment necessary to interconnect networks in a Data Center
- Related infrastructure improvements:
- Make-ready: Rearranging existing attachments on a pole so that it can safely support a new attachment or line
- Pole replacement: The work of replacing a utility pole with a new one that is up to specification if the previous pole is deemed insufficient or unsafe for continued operation of all services and attachments that the pole must support
- Acquisition of existing infrastructure assets and related agreements
- Acquisition: the purchase of network assets from a public or private entity for incorporation by an Applicant into a Project Area, and related legal agreements.
Eligibility Criteria
- Public Entities: Municipalities (cities, counties, towns, villages); Tribal Nations; state and local authorities; entities established pursuant to Section 99-y of the NYS General Municipal Law; not-for-profit entities; and regional planning boards formed under the provisions of NYS General Municipal Law
- Municipal Utilities: Local government entities, including those established by a municipality as nonprofit Utility Cooperatives
- Eligible Private Partner Applicants
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
- Managed Service Providers (MSPs)
- Broadband Infrastructure Builders
- Broadband Infrastructure Owners.
For more information, visit ConnectALL Office.
