Wheaton HS Cell Tower Owes $15 Thou$and in back Property Taxes

The Wheaton HS cell tower now sits right next to the building.

Fortunately, Montgomery County is rich and doesn't need the property tax revenue from cell towers that are built on Montgomery County Public School land.  

The Board of Education is happy to allow private companies to build on dedicated public school land, and not pay property taxes.  

Public school students lose the use of dedicated public school land, and the County loses the property tax revenue that could help fund the public schools.  It's a lose-lose for the public school students! 

The Parents' Coalition has been tracking the failure of cell towers to pay their required property taxes for years.  This is not a new problem. This is one of the reasons we are opposed to private companies taking over public school land for uses unrelated to the education of public school students.  

The account number for the Wheaton cell tower is 03696636.

In just that one property tax account, the cell tower vendor using Board of Education land owes over $15,000 dollars in back property taxes. 

Check the account for yourself at the link below. Enter
03696636 into the Account Number field to see the tax bills.

 https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/realpropertytax/default.aspx

Wheaton High School was moved to a new location, right next to cell tower.