Governor Schwarzenegger endorses Siskiyou County's $23 million federal ARRA rural broadband stimulus bid

SACRAMENTO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/11/09 -- Western Blue, Northern and Central California's experienced desktop to datacenter IT solution integrator, announced that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has included all three Siskiyou County grant applications among the list of state approved projects for rural broadband funding submitted for federal stimulus funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

In a public-private partnership, the Siskiyou County Broadband Consortium led by the Siskiyou County Economic Development Council had submitted three applications in August which included requests for $12 million in "middle mile" funding, plus $10 million and $1 million for "last mile" and "a public computer center" respectively under the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) and Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP)...