Quality Life For DeKalb - No Cell Tower On School Grounds

Memo

To:       CEO Burrell Ellis

From:    Viola Davis

CC:       Unhappy Taxpayer & Voter, Get The Cell Out Atlanta, Concerned Citizens of South DeKalb, Citizens for a Healthy and Safe Environment, DeKalb NAACP, NoBriarlakeTower.org, Briarcliff Heights Community Action Group, NoCellTowerFund.com, and all appropriate parties

Date:    4/3/2012

Re:       Quality Life For DeKalb – No Cell Tower On School Grounds

Quality Life For DeKalb – No Cell Tower On School Grounds

One DeKalb Lives restore neighborhoods and build hope. One DeKalb Works create jobs and also build hope. These are two DeKalb logos on the front page of the county website.  However, One DeKalb has a “new message."

We are proud to join the basic message of One DeKalb to say that parents and homeowners from North and South DeKalb have sent a unified message that we do not want cell towers on school grounds and request CEO Burrell Ellis deny any applications for construction of cell towers on school grounds.

We are contacting CEO Ellis to move the One DeKalb political logo and slogan into a public issue action plan. North and South DeKalb have united to send a clear message that we do not want cell phone towers on school grounds especially within residential neighborhoods. We have collectively petitioned our elected officials to pass laws to protect our children, protect our neighborhoods, and protect our overall quality of life.

Parents and homeowners throughout DeKalb County take pride in the following facts:

·        The entire Board of Commissioners has taken a position on cell towers on DeKalb school properties to not ignore its ordinances unless it has been proven in court.

·        Rep. Karla Drenner introduced HB1128, entitled “Prudent Avoidance”, and received the support of 16 out of 18 signatures from the DeKalb Delegation.

DeKalb County has not seen this level of unity before in the history of any given issue and look forward to our CEO joining this history making venture.  We request CEO Burrell Ellis join the DeKalb Board of Commissioners to uphold our local zoning law. We ask CEO Burrell Ellis to prove One DeKalb is more than a political slogan by joining the Board of Commissioners to send a message to T-Mobile that DeKalb deserves a high quality of life and that quality starts and ends with upholding our local laws and ordinances.   

Time to Take Action:  Please write, email and/or phone CEO Burrell Ellis and request he join the Board of Commissioners and DeKalb Delegation to send T-Mobile a message that “it is the policy of DeKalb County to prohibit cell towers on single-family residentially-zones properties” and “this zoning ordinance was established to ensure the safety of county residents and to protect property values of single-family homes” as quoted from Crossroads Newspaper.

Contact CEO Burrell Ellis:

·       CEO Burrell Ellis
Chief Executive Officer
DeKalb County Government
330 W. Ponce de Leon Avenue, 6th Floor
Decatur, GA 30030

·        Email: schedulingceoellis@dekalbcountyga.gov

·        Or ceo@dekalbcountyga.gov

·       Phone Numbers:
            404-371-2881      Executive Office
            404-371-2521      Neighborhood Empowerment
            404-371-6301      Scheduling Line

Copy (Optional) to: For extra assurance your letter of support reaches the right people, you may wish to send a copy to:
The Director of Public Works
The Director (or Interim Director) of Planning & Sustainability
The Chief of Staff for the Office of Community Relations.

IMPORTANT ALSO:

Please send an e-mail/letter thanking the entire Board of Commissioners for their stand and letting them know that we are making our concerns known to Burrell Ellis.

Tell your district representative (or all of them) you are taking the next step to ensure the CEO knows the letter they penned is also backed by the wishes of the people of DeKalb County. Contact details can be found here: http://web.co.dekalb.ga.us/boc/contact.html.

If you have not already, please take a morning, attend and speak at one of the BOC meetings which occur twice a month. They are held beginning at 9:00 AM on the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month. This is an important opportunity for you as a citizen in DeKalb County to participate in the county’s operation. These meetings have been extremely educational and experiential for all who have taken the time. The next Board of Commissioners meeting is a week from this Tuesday on April 10th at 9 a.m. at Maloof Auditorium at 1300 Commerce Drive.

The NoCellTowerFund.com website is completed! 

We will inform you when donation processing will begin. Please visit the site for regular information and calls to action on the behalf of the nine public schools we are fighting to prevent tower construction at. For more information please email stoptmobiletowers@gmail.com.