Communications Towers
When he was hired as public Safety director in 2013 he was well versed on the issues foibles of the City. He knew the City did not want a Cell phone tower but that the need public safety required one. The key of a tower is to communicate through walls with signals broadcast on high tower. The need had become immediately apparent with the collapses of the World Trade Center when the police could not warn the fireman of working inside of the dangers of the tower's imminent collapse because their radios wouldn't reach.
So Henderson his and his department tested what they had on every tower City had to offer including Christ Church Cranbrook which by the additional virtue of being on a hill was the highest point in town. Then they jerry rigged a system which worked for four years and was not promised to be a permanent fix. Crime however continued to outpace the system. A Homicide in the Township and an attempted break in with shots fired in City made that apparent.
The Chief made his request then City Manager Cravens virtually on his way out of town called his contacts from 2011 presentations. Unfortunately Mr. Cravens by perhaps by haste or design left the door open for commercial interests to piggy back on existing on towers or build there own claiming a mandate from the FCC. Actually the FCC says you many not object to a communications tower for alleged unproven reasons of heath hazards. It does does require the tower builder to prove that the tower will do what is claimed. At a recent Commission meeting
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