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The City is serviced by AT&T and Comcast. They have 100 Mbps symmetrical from AT&T as their primary and a 50 Mbps backup connection from Comcast. These connections are to nearly all of the City facilities. The new complex is talking to Comcast for services and were negotiating the contract at the time of this report. The City does see some performance lags due to closed captioning, but all in all the services work well for them. The City does not hear complaints from residents or businesses regarding broadband availability or services within the city limits. During the peak of COVID- 19, many people were working remotely from home, Zoom was helpful and everyone had enough bandwidth in their homes to work remotely successfully. In addition, they did not hear issues from the schools within the city limits regarding issues with online or virtual learning for students. Town of Indian River Shores The Town of Indian River Shores, located on Orchid Island, includes Town Hall administrative offices next door to Public Safety administration. Unique at this campus is a Postal Center, operated by the Town under contract with the postal service, for maintaining PO boxes and facilitating mailings. Local Fire and Police rely on the County Sheriff for dispatch and record management services. Maintaining less than seven miles of roadway, with the majority of streets controlled by HOA's, the Town's main infrastructure is devoted to stormwater. The Town is not connected to the County's f ber infrastructure, instead relying on redundant internet connections provided by Comcast and AT&T. Town of Orchid The Town of Orchid is one gated neighborhood on the barrier island. The demographics lean older but it is not a 55+ requirement community. The Town relies on the County for police and utilities, as the Town is largely administrative. The Town and community association manage the roads and streetlights and the golf club handles the parking lights by the club. The gated Town sits back from the beach, so there have not been any talks about smart streetlights as they aren't necessary for the turtles. Other than the golf club and some residents that work from home, the Town has no economic development activities or concerns. The community has a part-time building clerk and an inspector. The inspector enjoys using an iPad due to digitization and the clerk prefers a paper and pen methodology. This Town has had a good experience with Comcast providing their 31 www.MAGELLAN-ADVISORS.coM 206