SALISBURY — David Post says the problem with Fibrant is not that the city has spent too much. It’s that it doesn’t have enough customers yet.

He pointed out that only about 3,000 of Salisbury’s approximately 34,000 residents are Fibrant customers.

“And so their taxes are supporting something that they haven’t just made the choice to utilize,” Post said.

One of his solutions to that problem, he said, would be to open a Fibrant store in one of the city’s downtown properties. That’s an idea he would support should he be re-elected for a second term on the Salisbury City Council.

“We ought to have a 100-inch TV or something like that in there and we should have 10 (gigabytes) in there and let people see what 10 (gigabytes) looks like and feels like,” he said.

Post said the Fibrant internet service is the city’s most important issue not necessarily because it is important in itself but because it is underutilized and, therefore, drains millions of dollars from the city’s annual budget.

“We’re not going to recover what happened yesterday, but my goal is to do everything I can to reduce those losses so that we have more dollars to spend on other needs,” Post said.

He said he also wants to run City Council meetings differently. He said he has already supported several changes to the meeting structure, including scheduling the public-comment period at 6 p.m. rather than at the end of the meeting.

“I think there’s been a lot of kickback on public comment because the business community says, ‘Well, the purpose of the meeting is to manage the business of the city.’ I happen to think what the citizens of the city say is the business of the city. I think that can be, at times, as important as anything on our agenda,” he said.

Post, 68, is an attorney at David Post Law PLLC.

Contact reporter Jessica Coates at 704-797-4222.