Unhappy lobbyists were lined up on a sidewalk outside the Commerce Department this morning after seats for a public meeting on broadband Internet buildouts quickly filled adult website hosting.
Not only did the 500-seat auditorium quickly reach capacity but so did several overflow rooms as three agencies that will oversee disbursing almost $8 billion from the economic stimulus bill for the broadband Internet effort came together to provide some guidance to potential grant recipients flash templates.
For the Commerce Department, Agriculture Department and Federal Communications Commission, this was the first of several joint public hearings this month to provide more information on the grant process and allow the agencies to get feedback on how they should structure the program.
“I don’t think we’ve had this many people in the Commerce Department since it was built,” joked Bernadette McGuire-Rivera, a department official whose office oversees broadband grants best web hosting.
Meetings will be held in Washington from March 16-24 as well as a meeting on March 17 in Las Vegas and one the following day in Flagstaff, Ariz.
Commerce Department officials say they want to begin accepting applications next month. They plan to have three rounds of grant awards, two in 2009 and a final round in the summer of 2010. The Agriculture Department, meanwhile says it will also probably have three rounds of grant applications and will open up the first round in the next 60 to 90 days virtual private server.
Unhappy lobbyists were lined
Unhappy lobbyists were lined up on a sidewalk outside the Commerce Department this morning after seats for a public meeting on broadband Internet buildouts quickly filled adult website hosting.
Not only did the 500-seat auditorium quickly reach capacity but so did several overflow rooms as three agencies that will oversee disbursing almost $8 billion from the economic stimulus bill for the broadband Internet effort came together to provide some guidance to potential grant recipients flash templates.
For the Commerce Department, Agriculture Department and Federal Communications Commission, this was the first of several joint public hearings this month to provide more information on the grant process and allow the agencies to get feedback on how they should structure the program.
“I don’t think we’ve had this many people in the Commerce Department since it was built,” joked Bernadette McGuire-Rivera, a department official whose office oversees broadband grants best web hosting.
Meetings will be held in Washington from March 16-24 as well as a meeting on March 17 in Las Vegas and one the following day in Flagstaff, Ariz.
Commerce Department officials say they want to begin accepting applications next month. They plan to have three rounds of grant awards, two in 2009 and a final round in the summer of 2010. The Agriculture Department, meanwhile says it will also probably have three rounds of grant applications and will open up the first round in the next 60 to 90 days virtual private server.
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