====== E-Rate Training 2017 ======

  * [[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1amsplF5yFPLUDuT2gFzFvlySmM5DORH_8Uzr6_I_VDs/edit#slide=id.p|Training Slides]]
  * [[https://goo.gl/iPFLwj|E-rate Fundamentals]]
  * [[https://goo.gl/IsZD9T|Eligible Services]]
  * [[https://goo.gl/wJPiAF|Fiber options]]
  * [[https://goo.gl/pB0Ako|Search tools]]

===== Agenda =====
  * Process Review
  * Eligible Services
  * Fiber
  * Search Tools
  * E-Rate Productivity Center
  * Questions

===== E-Rate Process Review =====
==== 470 ====
  * Anytime after July 1
  * Doesn't require and RFP
  * Must be posted 28 days
  * opens competitive bidding process.
  * MN requires a RFP for projects over a certain dollar amount
  * 

==== 471 ====
  * Filed during the filing window (usually Jan-April)
  * can use highest bill
  * separate cat 1 and cat2 471
  * determines discount level
  * assign(YOU) funding request numbers

==== Form 486 ====
  * Confirmation of receipt of services
  * certification of compliance with CIPA
  * Filed upon receipt of FCD letter
  * Must be of filed within 120 days of Funding commitment letter 

==== Form 472 - Billed Entity Applied Reimbursement(Bear) ====
  * Filed when applicant is paying invoice for service un full
  * can be done throughout the program year

==== Form 498 - Banking Information ====
  * filed by applicants with banking and other information
  * set up so applicant can receive direct payments from BEAR forms

==== Eligible services list ====
  * uses FCC stock order (back of FCC order)
  * service list can change for year to year
  * phone reduced 20% every year starting 2015

==== Cat 2 ====
  * 5 years from the first time school draws money from cat 2
  * Schools are limited to $150 per student pre-discount total request over a five year period beginning Fund Year 2015

==== Fiber Options ====
  * Requires RFP

==== Search Tools ====
  * [[http://www.usac.org/sl/tools/default.aspx|Search Tools]]
  * [[http://www.slforms.universalservice.org/DRT/Default.aspx|Data Retrieval Tool]]
  * [[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12eWgOthVRt7cFOoed0yIcXYkdNj9FY4GHuFwCVawd_o/pubhtml/sheet?headers=false&gid=0|498 Status Sheet]]
  * [[https://sltools.universalservice.org/portal-external/budgetLookup/|Cat 2 Budget Tool (School Ben #)]]