Example for How to Fight Back

Portland Oregon learned about cell towers coming to their neighborhood just a few weeks ago, unlike the several months that we have had here in DeKalb County.  Here's how they are handling it as mentioned on their community website:

Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association Meeting Thursday 11/17/11

Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association members vote whether or not to allocate funds to provide much needed legal support. We suspect this issue will not be without some degree of controversy among ENA members. We need as many neighbors and friends to voice their concerns and show their support for this issue. Please remember we’re in this together (as a community) and more towers will likely follow without our support. Similar legal issues (based on preserving neighborhood character) have been fought and won in Oregon. Please join us at the Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association meeting this Thursday – 11/17 – 7:00pm in the Duniway School library.

Note to DeKalb County Schools, if your school was not on the list this time, you might  be caught off guard when you receive the news.  We hope you are reading and learning from the events that have happened so that you will be better prepared than our first groups of schools were.  Once a precedent is set, there will be nothing to stop the Board of Education from coming back to this "cash cow" again and again. 

If you have a child at a cell tower school, or live in a neighborhood nearby, it is not too late!  But, DO NOT attempt to negotiate with the Board of Education OR the county commissioners office as they have already been contacted repeatedly.  They are either not able to change the decision, or do not want to do so. 

This is now a matter that requires legal representation.  You must act quickly before the towers are built for your best chance at a victory and for recooperating your attorney fees.

Good Luck!  Email us at sayno2celltowers@yahoo.com if we can help.