The Yearly REMC1 USF Process - Onsites and Engineers

Owned by Josh Hiner
Last updated: May 31, 2024
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  1. Year round: Constantly discuss and ask members about CAT 2 and CAT 1 (internal connections such as cabling, switches, wifi etc. and Internet/fiber wan projects) over the year.

  2. Be ready for September 1. DISCUSS ALL PROJECTS WITH CO creating project folders way ahead of time and updating the USF spreadsheet in Google drive!!! The USF Spreadsheet has a tab for each district listing projects and necessary equipment. We should also have a tab or indicator that we DONT need anything for a district (or that they ran out of CAT2 USF budget for the 5y span) so we understand what districts we evaluated and which districts we did not evaluate.

  3. CO continually evaluates these projects and assists in creating RFP’s. These are DUE BY END OF NOVEMBER.

  4. CO and Onsite communicates (creates tickets, assigns business office and superintendent) regarding filing the 470/preparing to file/garnering approval to act on the need and file for USF.

  5. CO assists with district questions on filing for the 470 between roughly November and February. File early! Done wait. If you wait and there are issues you have no time to address them and you miss deadlines. For instance if there is a website issue or you hit a roadblock or an error in EPC (the erate productivity center) you dont have time to address the error.

  • USF is a team project and a year round effort of making tickets and project folders on district needs. District needs must be ticketed with project folders as soon as they are discovered (or communicated by your onsite meetings with the district).

    • This is more of an onsite task then any other area. Onsites are in-district and visually experiencing, viewing, evaluating needs and communicating with admin.

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