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SF 2298 Senate Long Description

E Requiring commissioner of employment and economic development + (DEED) grants to cities outside the metropolitan area to pay for a certain +percentage of the capital costs of public infrastructure necessary for eligible +broadband development projects, local contribution requirement; defining public infrastructure and specifying certain project eligibility and city +application and evaluation requirements, specifying certain criteria to be used +by the commissioner for evaluation purposes; limiting judicial review of +commissioner decisions; specifying a project priority and a maximum grant amount; +requiring cancellation and return of grants for project noncompletion; +appropriating money to the commissioner and authorizing the issuance of bonds to +pay for the grants (ra, ja)