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Across the United States, there has been an increased interest in municipalities' developing strategies to attract industry and business. This paper describes the accounting, financial and legal implications in how a county in New York State efffectively implemented a public-private interface model to develop a dark-fiber network as a strategic initiative to enhance the county's compewtitive environment. The main purpose of this project is to create a county-wide fiber infrastructure (at no cost to the county) that not only would improve telecommunications, communication and reliability but also to become a platform to enhance business development.

Public-private interface, finance, accounting