Wednesday April 29 was a happy day. That’s the day we could stop saying, “Broadband is coming, there’s no reason to think we won’t get funded.” Why? Because we got our E-rate funding for district wide broadband upgrades! Yes d62′ers, there is broadband and we are getting it. We have a meeting with AT&T Monday to sign off on the papers we need to get the ball rolling. I can’t wait & I am very excited.

If you want more information please post in the comments section & we will provide more information, but this is great news. Increased broadband will mean faster Internet, FileMaker, email, calendars, et cetera. This is not to say that we won’t have bottlenecks that slow us down sometimes. Slow machine’s are slow machines, bad wiring is bad wiring, but vast improvements should be felt everywhere. And speaking of slow machines, we’re working on that too. And the master planning construction that’s coming to your building – that includes new wiring. Synchronicity folks!

This is one of the first things we started this year. It took awhile to get to this milepost, but we were successful. Personally I want to thank Crystal & Lorenda for handling the monsterous amount of accounting paperwork, which is on-going of course, and which is also going to help us save money in telephony.

A good day, the first of many.