NEIGHBORS SAY NO TO CELL TOWER AT JULIUS WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL

 

Full article at at Gazette.net 

A community group, Citizens Against a Cell Tower at Julius West Middle School, has started an online petition that requests “a permanent ban” on cellphone towers and is addressed to Superintendent Joshua P. Starr and Montgomery County Board of Education members.

Nadia Azumi, the leader of Citizens Against a Cell Tower at Julius West Middle School, said she and other group members collected more than 300 signatures opposing a cell tower when a proposal for one first appeared years ago from T-Mobile. While about seven years have passed since the last proposal, she said it’s the same group that stands opposed.“Things haven’t changed here,” she said. "Unlike the neighborhood residents, Azumi said, parents, students and staff at the school “come and go. It’s us who remain,” she said.  David Keaton, another group member, said the group is seeking a ban out of concern that the issue could keep resurfacing.

HOW CELL TOWERS AVOID PAYING PROPERTY TAXES

Full article at Parents Coalition of Montgomery County

By using the Board of Education's tax account number cell tower vendors have avoided paying property taxes on cell towers erected on public school land.