STEP FOUR

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• Budget

• Your budget should show that you clearly understand all the direct and indirect costs associated with meeting your technology plan goals.

• The SLD would like to make very sure that you have the wherewithal to pay your share of the bill, and that you have thought about the other types of costs that, though they are non-eligible under E-Rate, are still critical to the success of your technology goals.

• This includes costs for professional development, electricity, or electrical wiring, maintenance on equipment and services, equipment not on the eligible equipment list (e.g. printers, fileservers, operating system software, application software, etc.)