Friday, July 20, 2012

District 4: Three Out of 4 Candidates said "NO" on Cell Towers!

(cleick headline for details)

At a candidate forum held by Crossroads News, District 4 candidates were asked about the July 31 ballot question on cell towers.  Here is an excerpt from that forum:

Another candidate forum was held July 19 at the
Arabia Mountain High School auditorim


July 31 ballot question

Three of the candidates said they will vote against a cell tower proposal on the ballot.

Gilbert said school properties are only for public use.

Kinney said he doesn’t believe cell towers pose a health hazard but he doesn’t want to see schools become subject to for-profit interests.

McMahan said the ballot question doesn’t allow for local control.

Voters are being asked in a non-binding advisory referendum whether the school system should be allowed to place or operate telecommunication towers on school property.

State legislators have been seeking ways to prevent the location of more cell towers on DeKalb Schools property after a July 12, 2011, vote by the DeKalb School Board to allow T-Mobile to locate 150-foot-high towers on nine school properties for up to 30 years. Most of those schools are in South DeKalb.

“Cell towers are needed, but it comes down to local control,” McMahan said. “So if a community wants it, and it goes through the proper channels, I’m OK. … I think what the school system did was completely inappropriate and fractured the trust of the citizens in those communities.”

Womack, who voted in favor of the towers, said he voted not to put them at schools that had expressed opposition.

He said he has not decided how he will vote on the July 31 question but did say he doesn’t see them as threats to health.

“You get more radiation from your handheld cell phone and microwave and walk-around phone at home than from cell towers,” Womack said.

Read more: CrossRoadsNews - Three newcomers seek to unseat Womack on School Board


District 4 candidate for
school board,
Tom Gilbert.


Both Gilbert and McMahan have been awarded our GTCO-ATL Seal of Approval!





 
District 4 candidate for

school board,
Jim McMahan

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