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: 04/30/2026
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Through this RFA, CAO intends to establish the Municipal Infrastructure Program (“MIP”) to support the development of open-access and predominantly publicly controlled last mile fiber broadband infrastructure that will directly connect or facilitate connections to homes, businesses, community anchor institutions, data centers, internet exchange locations, or regional publicly controlled broadband infrastructure to reliable highspeed internet service, using funding from the U.S. Department of Treasury Capital Projects Fund (“CPF”). The objective of this RFA is to improve broadband access in communities across the state facing connectivity challenges due to the lack of affordable, high-speed internet infrastructure.
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
- Individual grant award: $30 million
Eligible Uses
Eligible uses for program funding include construction of new infrastructure or acquisition of existing infrastructure under the following categories:
- Last mile fiber connections to address:
- Last mile infrastructure: The cabling, wires, necessary pole replacements and make-ready and/or radios that ISPs use to distribute the internet from local Internet Exchanges to network and/or customer 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.
- Fiber connections to Internet Exchange Points or Data Centers:
- Middle mile fiber: The fiber to transport internet services to a local Data Center where an Applicant is connecting or facilitating its last mile infrastructure.
- Networking equipment: The routers, switches, and other equipment necessary to interconnect networks in a Data Center.
- Connections to Regional Infrastructure: The fiber and equipment to connect networks to each other or to regional infrastructure to increase resilience and maximize long-term operational efficiency and scalability.
- 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
Eligible Public Applicants, fitting one or more of the following descriptions, may submit applications. Eligible Public Applicants must propose to own the planned infrastructure, in whole or in partnership.
- 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-forprofit 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 nonprofits, which provide essential services such as electricity, telecommunications, water, sewer, and gas services over municipally owned infrastructure.
- Utility Cooperatives: Regulated, nonprofit entities that deliver electricity to their constituent members.
- Eligible Private Partner Applicants, fitting one or more of the following descriptions, may submit applications with letters of endorsement from an Eligible Public Applicant. Eligible Private Partner Applicants can have an ownership structure that may be in the form of public-private partnership, private or shareholder ownership, nongovernmental nonprofit, non-utility cooperative, or community trust.
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs): Entities providing internet services to consumers, not limited to providers of cable television or telephone services.
- Managed Service Providers (MSPs): Entities operating networks and providing service to residents and businesses by using existing internet infrastructure or partnering with construction entities to build networks.
- Broadband Infrastructure Builders: Entities that construct and/or deploy open-access broadband infrastructure assets.
- Broadband Infrastructure Owners: Entities that own, operate, or hold last mile or middle mile fiber infrastructure.
For more information, visit ConnectALL Office.
