Harvey County agrees to contribute $75,000 for broadband expansion

The Board of Harvey County Commissioners gave a verbal commitment Tuesday to provide $75,000 in matching funding toward a IdeaTek project to provide broadband service to underserved rural areas. Commissioners also approved setting aside a total of $250,000 for future broadband projects. Commissioners’ actions followed a long discussion with Nate Oswald, director of customer service and sales for IdeaTek. He told commissioners that five other counties that were part of the company’s grant application had agreed to contribute funding. He said Finney County was contributing $400,000. Other counties and their pledged commitments were: Kingman, $60,000; Saline, $54,000; Reno, $15,000; and Seward, $10,000.
Source: Harvey County Now