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Lakewood Elementary’s SBDMÂ committee is hosting a meeting tonight to discuss a proposition from Dallas ISD and Verizon to build a cell tower on the Lakewood Elementary School campus.
The Lakewood Elementary Facebook page says the cell tower discussion “will be first on the agenda tonight and district officials will be there to answer questions.”
Chris Prestridge, a member of the SBDM board and Lakewood Elementary parent, says the proposal has “flown largely under the radar until Friday,” but now that the news is out “parents and neighbors are up in arms.”
Neighbors are mostly concerned about possible health concerns associated with cell towers, he says.
“It just seems weird to me to take a building full of young children and hang a device over them that may or may not cause harm,” Prestridge points out.
The proposed item was discovered in the Dallas ISD 2014-2015 budget (on page 49 under “long-term lease agreements by category.” See “cellular antenna equipment”), which states the district would receive almost $400,000 of annual revenue from this practice. The budget claims to have 16 “active leases” for the year 2014.
Read the rest of the budget.
Parents or neighbors interested in the discussion should plan to attend the meeting at Lakewood Elementary tonight at 7 p.m.
Screenshot of the Dallas ISD budget
