Business View Civil and Municipal | Volume 2, Issue 6

173 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 2, ISSUE 6 PULASK I COUNTY , V I RGINI A to really figure out where to best invest our limited resources to maximize the return and the benefit to the entire community. In essence, we boldly wanted to turn the COVID negatives into COVID positives which translates into constructive opportunities for our businesses and our citizens to take advantage of.” The County has also invested CARES Act funding and other available resources into broadband deployment to support the needs of the growing work from home population and its cottage industries within the community. Sweet describes, “We are not just putting the human capacity in place, but we are also putting communication infrastructure out there as well. We are doing things that we think are going to strategically position us in this new post-COVID economy, to catch up and get ahead.” The County is also working with Appalachian Power, as part of a pilot program to install 96-strand fiber optic cable from existing utility poles. This project will allow efficient, consistent and affordable access Jonathan Sweet, Chief Administrative Officer Dublin, Virginia, located in Pulaski County, is home to the largest Volvo truck manufacturing facility in the world