Prosperity. a focus on economy 5) Improving connectivity and sustainable air connections; a. Improving connectivity through the ferry and airlift (e.g. exploring a PSO); 6) Harbor development, including tariff structures and maintenance; a. Maintenance of current port facilities; b. Update of the current tariff structure and the associated tax revenues; c. Exploration of future port facilities, including public safety in the harbor; d. Ensuring safety in the harbor (including use of radar). 7) Facilitate strategic economic development: a. The development of a comprehensive economic plan and strategy. This should include the re-evaluating and in cooperation of the existing development plans for economic diversification, with amongst others: i. Investigate possibilities of private jet parking at FDR Airport; ii. Boost agriculture and fisheries; iii. Expanding (digital) infrastructure; iv. A local tax study (dog tax); v. A cultural and heritage revitilization program; vi. The rehabilitation of the old Airport building; vii. Feasibility geothermal energy; viii. The evaluation and execution of the Tourism Vision Plan (2019), while revising and extending the plan to include cultural tourism connected to the celebration of Statia Day 2026 (see under well-being); ix. Exploring ways to re-establish the Medical School; x. A vison on the sustainable grow of Sint Eustatius population and accompanying infrastructural facilities and procedures b. Improving banking services (connected to boost business climate); c. Develop an approach to stimulating the business climate and generating an open market with affordable costs of doing business; d. Resolving the issue of undivided properties on the island (connected to, among others, the implementation of the road plan, housing and cultural heritage).
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