9-12-1503. Application contents.

(a) An applicant for funding under this article shall provide the following information on the application:

(i) The location of the project;

(ii) The kind and amount of broadband infrastructure to be deployed for the project, including initial speeds to be achieved and initial price of the service to be provided;

(iii) Evidence regarding the unserved nature of the area where the project is to be located;

(iv) The number of households and businesses passed that will have access to broadband service as a result of the project, or whose broadband service will be upgraded as a result of the project;

(v) Significant community institutions and industries that will benefit from the project;

(vi) Evidence of community support for the project;

(vii) The total cost of the project, including a business plan;

(viii) Sources of funding or in-kind contributions for the project that will supplement any funding under this article, including an examination of any federal grants available to the project. The application shall identify the amount of funding for the project to be provided by each governmental entity and by any business entity participating in the project. Funding provided by any other state source shall be specifically identified;

(ix) Evidence that no later than six (6) weeks before submission of the application the applicant contacted, in writing, all entities who are listed with the counsel as providing broadband service in the proposed project area to ask for each broadband service provider's plan to upgrade broadband service in the project area to speeds that meet or exceed the speeds proposed in the application, within the time frame specified in the proposed project activities;

(x) The broadband service providers' written responses, if any, to the inquiry made under paragraph (ix) of this subsection;

(xi) Acknowledgement by the governing body, and any partnering business entity by a person with legal authority to bind the business entity, that funding may only be provided in accordance with a contract executed in conformance with this article and is subject to availability and approval of distribution of funds;

(xii) If the application is not submitted jointly with a business entity, an account of the request for proposals issued by the governmental entity applying and responses to the request, if any;

(xiii) Additional information requested by the council.