The South-Central Alabama Broadband Cooperative District (SCABCD), a Special Purpose Capital Improvement Cooperative District. Created through a special legislative act codified in the Code of Alabama 1975 as amended at Chapter 11 section 99B. The act is intended to encourage and facilitate cooperative efforts by public entities to provide projects for their own use and for the use and benefit of their citizens and users. The SCABCD’s purpose is to own and manage a publicly funded community-owned high-speed Next Generation Broadband Network in South Central Alabama and the Alabama’s Black Belt Region. The district will leverage private and public resources to focus on this traditionally underserved and unserved communities and leverage subsequent incremental investments to give its communities access to a broader market through “Next Generation Broadband Technology and economic opportunities.