Kennedy HS New Cell Tower Installations

The February 3, 2010 meeting minutes for the Transmission Facilities Coordinating Group shows the following entry:

Clearwire application to attach antennas on a 130' high monopole on JFK High School property, 1901 Randolph Road, Silver Spring (Application #200908-09). Condition: Submission of a structural analysis report to DPS and a copy to the Tower Coordinator that shows the antennas can be safely attached, and on Clearwire having a legal interest in the Public Schools property for attachment of these antennas

JFK High School would be John F. Kennedy High School. (Nice way to be transparent in the location!) According to these minutes this is for additional cell tower antennas to the Kennedy High School cell tower. Questions:

• Are these additional antennas being discussed in the Kennedy High School community like they were in the Whitman High School community? 
• Will the placement of these antennas get the media coverage like the Whitman cell tower issue?
• How much income will these additional antennas generate for the local school principal's fund and the MCPS real estate office?

Here's the BIG question. The meeting minutes note that Clearwire is being asked to show that they have a legal interest in the public schools property. Does Clearwire have a legal interest in this public school property? Good question!


How can Clearwire have a legal interest in the Public Schools property when the Board of Education has never signed over any property rights for the installation of cell towers? As we know from Board minutes the Board of Education has never voted on the placement of a cell tower on public school property in Montgomery County.  From Maryland Public Information Act requests we know that Superintendent Jerry Weast has been signing cell tower leases.


We look forward to obtaining and making available to the public the result of this inquiry by the Transmission Facilities Coordinating Group. We'd like to know too!  




And by the way, Seven Locks Elementary - you are getting a new cell tower right across the street from the school.