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Nut graf: County staff presented projects intended to improve infrastructure and recruitment tools: a Mission Fiber Flagler West grant application being coordinated with Commissioner Mullins and USDA representatives; an interactive map and property database to present sites to prospective employers and grantors; and active recruitment files including \"Project Columbus\" and a medical facility labeled \"Project Alice.\"

Helga said she has worked with Commissioner Mullins on the Mission Fiber Flagler West USDA grant application and that available federal awards could support rural connectivity west of U.S. 1: \"First grant, I think, is possible as 3,000,000, then there are other grants for 25,000,000,\" she said. She said the grant program is targeted to rural communities and that the proposed approach under discussion was to run fiber to existing county towers and then provide local coverage from the towers using wireless technology, a model the USDA representative and consultant favored.

Board members and staff noted last‑mile cost and low-density challenges for fiber deployment. Helga described the role of private carriers if fiber is extended to towers: \"It would require a carrier. Yes. Transmit it? Yes.\" Commissioner discussion confirmed agricultural stakeholders are included in a stakeholder group for the project; Helga said a local agricultural representative, David, will participate.

Helga also introduced the department's new hire, Daniel Pendergrass, who described himself as a recent University of Florida economics graduate and said he will support the department's work.

On business recruitment, Helga said Project Columbus is completing due diligence and will present to the board soon, and that Project Alice, a medical facility project, is nearing announcement. She also said an existing local company, Butelig Pharmaceutical, is adding a new product line and will expand locally.

Staff demonstrated a new interactive property map and database, which Helga said compiles active commercial, industrial and residential development listings into a single publicly accessible tool for recruitment and grant presentations. Lily, a department staff member, explained the map displays active properties, site specifications and available videos and said the database is populated from realtor listings and public sources her team compiles.

Helga said the tool has already been used to present the Commerce Boulevard (\"1 to 100\") vision to state funding partners and that the Florida Department of Transportation has reviewed the Commerce Boulevard road design and is seeking value engineering because the construction estimate \"came in at 6,000,000? 8,000,000 for the full road,\" she said. Helga said phasing and cost-saving options are being explored prior to pursuing grants.

During council comments, a board member raised residential‑pipeline figures and told staff she had assembled data showing more than 30,000 housing units in the county pipeline when municipal and developer approvals are combined; she had not yet received the county's PUD numbers. Helga and staff agreed to follow up so recruitment presentations can reflect the local housing picture.

Actions and next steps: Helga asked for the board's permission to provide a letter of support for a Daytona State College DEO funding application for a proposed nursing program; staff recorded that permission and will provide the letter. Helga also asked a staff member to report regularly on the fiber grant stakeholder group and said the property mapping tool will be rolled out to local realtors and used in recruitment and grant presentations.

Ending: The report concluded with plans for future presentations, further stakeholder coordination on fiber and infrastructure, and a staff-led rollout of the property database to local realtors and grant partners.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Economic Opportunity Advisory Board 8/21/2019","oneSentenceSummary","Executive Director Helga reported to the Flagler County economic development board on Sept. 17 on multiple projects, including a proposed USDA broadband grant application for the west side of the county, a new interactive properties database for recruitment, and progress on two business‑recruitment projects.","taxTitle","Flagler County, Florida","taxId",2877,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6146028,"Online entrepreneur directory shows profile and lead analytics for Flagler County businesses",437,144000,581000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5528501-6ce5898a73292dbb080b9a3c5e2df304&start=144&end=581","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5528501-6ce5898a73292dbb080b9a3c5e2df304/thumbnail_144000.jpg","/articles/6146028/Flagler-County/Florida/Online-entrepreneur-directory-shows-profile-and-lead-analytics-for-Flagler-County-businesses","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6146028-96843c3ab4349f61986b6a65fef7020b/orig.mp4?Expires=1773613631&Signature=TdqI2o1fPiqRDKx3D-tHOJKhMvQCkNDeBHME9kMv93a8xQez4saesq4H4gvZ5uc1ZjLD7J8ZP2eNNa85JYo3Yc8QEs5T2hbf2g6Ryjw79~krc~GJag6yleTd592V0wN6KLKU9VNWnH~Iy4z1PCsHw6iKaA5oI6qSjwjFBB6yR5XZpMJ8uahXrDag~sHdCBrAxXtzIK1MD01uf~dNXsuCzvVyzYuP1cMCQ21r8g2jMzVNySus0dgscfx3eJ0SeQPR0w2V1xtuccKMkeAxc02skrcIcWXMvcHZGYvUflQHg2QjwKrq40ycJH1rp~xM5TxCoAEH52hhO~1rnzvoyfrHUQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","A FLVEC representative told the Flagler County Department of Economic Opportunity on Sept. 17 that the program's online profiles and agency listings produce real-time analytics showing how often entrepreneur pages are viewed and which links users click. \"In the last 7 days, his profile has been viewed 11 times. His website was clicked 3 times. His LinkedIn was clicked once,\" the representative said, describing the metrics for one example profile.

The FLVEC representative said the platform collects the same analytics for local resource agencies, and gave the Flagler County Department of Economic Opportunity as an example: \"The listing has been viewed 39 times, and it looks like there were 2 website clicks from that,\" the representative said.

Nut graf: The online directory is designed to increase visibility for small and growing businesses and to provide county officials with data on inbound interest. The presenter said the program also supplies lists of companies that visit county pages, using a third-party service that matches visitor IP addresses to company records.

The presenter described how the program identifies potential business leads: \"We subscribe to a data program that uses IP addresses and matches them against the database... So if they see that, for example, JPMorgan Chase IP address came on to FLVEC, the database will ping us back the corresponding information that you see here.\" The representative said the downloadable report includes company name, how they found the Flagler County content, location, telephone, email, employee size, industry and what content they viewed.

The presenter demonstrated search-engine placement for individual profiles, saying a Google search for a local firm returned the FLVEC profile as the first result among \"more than 20,000,000 results\" and noting \"studies have shown if you're not on the first page of Google, you're losing huge opportunity.\" The presenter urged board members to tell local businesses the service is free and is sponsored locally so entrepreneurs are not charged for profiles.

Board members asked about funding and county participation. The presenter said FLVEC operates as a program of the Florida High-Tech Corridor Council, which the presenter described as \"state funded through 3 universities, UCF, USF, and UF,\" and that the program receives Corridor funding that is matched by local sponsors. Sponsorship levels, the presenter said, run from about $2,500 to $10,000 per year, and a sponsor is required for a county to have active profile intake.

The presenter said FLVEC currently publishes a wide range of company sizes \"from 1 person all the way up to 5,000\" employees and that the statewide portal can host profiles for all 67 Florida counties but that FLVEC does not accept profiles from areas without a local sponsor.

The presenter asked the board to help promote the site to local entrepreneurs and resource partners. \"My one ask of this group would be, tell your local businesses that this resource is available to them completely free,\" the representative said.

Ending: The presentation closed after attendees asked questions about county participation and data compilation; the presenter and staff encouraged outreach to bring more sponsor counties and local business profiles onto the platform.","A presenter for the Florida Virtual Entrepreneurial Community (FLVEC) told the Flagler County economic development board that entrepreneur profiles and resource-agency listings on the site produce real-time analytics and company lead reports; sponsors underwrite profiles for counties that support the program.","actionData","errors"]

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Flagler County economic staff brief commissioners on fiber grant, site-mapping tool and development projects

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