If you are not already aware of my efforts to have the community of Longboat Key get on the Community Communications Network, you should be. A CCN (Community Communications Network) could save you lots of money and increase revenues to the town's general fund, as well as present an attractive element of community living on Longboat to visitors and perspective home buyers. These are good things.
We spent one million dollars on a tennis center building that does augment the community to some degree. However, the tennis center building has little direct benefit to the majority of taxpayers on the island. I supported the tennis building and voted for it as a commissioner.
Currently a typical Longboat resident pays Comcast/Verizon about $100 a month for internet and phone services.
A Community Communications Network (CCN) can deliver these same services for half the cost and at the same time be a revenue source for the town, and light up the island with everywhere WiFi.
There are approximately nine thousand residences on our island. If each of these residences is paying $100 a month for internet/phone that comes out to be $900,000.00 a month or $10,800,000.00 a year.
The estimated cost of installing a Community Communications Network on Longboat is around half a million dollars, or half the cost of the tennis center building.
A CCN can deliver internet/phone for half the cost currently paid by the community as a whole, which translates into a possible five million dollar yearly savings to the community as a whole.
A CCN could be built using Sarasota County Infrastructure Tax funds. This is the same funding source used to construct the tennis building.
Do you see why I am so keen on a CCN?
Go to www.lbkalive.com for more information. It's your money.
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