The Mahaska County Board is now accepting bids for expanding broadband access in the county.  At a special meeting Friday (2/11), the County Board approved a request for proposal that allows companies to compete for a contract to expand Mahaska County’s broadband internet access to areas that don’t have it.  Mahaska County Board Chairman Mark Groenendyk:

“And so we are requesting vendors that provide high speed internet to give us a bid on what it would cost to put the high speed internet into the underserved areas of our county.  We’re after a goal of trying to get our entire population to have high speed internet so everyone has the same accessibility, opportunities, capabilities of either work or school or whatever their needs are.”

The request for proposal requires that installation of the new broadband access be completed by December 2026.