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The airport area is primed for economic development. The City shared that Flight Safety had installed some fiber in between their buildings. While those on the call have not analyzed economic development issues, the downtown, banking, and beachside districts may have some future needs for broadband in the future. The City has not heard of any residential complaints from those within the city limits regarding broadband. There have been complaints from those in the unincorporated areas of Indian River County, and more so for cellular related issues. One stakeholder on the call stated he lived 2 blocks outside of city limits and has to walk outside to get a cell signal on his phone. US1 and 18th Street is also known to be a dead zone for cellular service. The City of Vero has some fiber that was set up by their previous electric system, substation to substation for an electrical grid. The City, County and Schools used this as a backbone and built out from there. The backbone is optical ground wire (OGW) and the County is not able to conduct maintenance on the fiber that is on FPL poles in the power space. The electric utility previously did the maintenance on the network, however when the electric utility was sold to FPL the County started helping with outages. The City has no interest in managing or maintaining the 30 - year -old fiber network assets and have ~elied on the County for assistance with this. City of Sebastian Sebastian is a substantial city in northeast Indian River County. The City has six city facilities including City Hall, the Police Department, Airport, Old School House, the Senior Center, and the upcoming Public Works Compound by the airport. The Public Works complex will be connected to fiber. City Hall has WiFi and the Airport has cameras that are recorded and centrally monitored by the Police Department. The Police Department has laptops and air cards for connectivity. Sebastian has very few areas for development. The City is currently building sewer to the Airport to attract businesses to the vacant, industrial lots nearby. The City is engaging in a Gap Analysis for economic development at the time of this report. They know the Brightline Service is looking to expand through Indian River County, however Sebastian does not have the acreage for it, they have heard that Stuart or Fort Pierce might be getting a station. Liberty Park and Blue Water Bay, which are part of the unincorporated area of the county, were mentioned as areas that the County should consider if building additional infrastructure. Today there are pasture lands there, but developers are eying this area for residential neighborhoods. 30 www. MAGELLAN-ADVIS0RS.CoM 205