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I especially appreciate the services
our village fire and rescue volunteers provide us. These citizen volunteers work and train hard to save our homes and property, but most importantly to save our lives. Tb perform their duties they must have reliable mobile communications to coordinate all their field operations. Up until now they have had to rely on radio systems which in the hollows of Rappahannock County do not permit the most reliable service.
What I do not understand is why the cell towers cannot be put on public land. Public land is owned by every citizen in Rappahannock County. I was told by the County Administrator’s Office that the supervisors would have to vote on the sites where they would be located creating a conflict of interest.
The original proposal by Sprint included cell towers at the Amissville, Flint Hill and Sperryville Fire and Rescue Stations. It was not a conflict of interest in the original proposal. Why is it now a conflict of interest?
The latest Sprint proposal does not include those sites and instead private landowners will receive all the substantial lease money benefits from Sprint. I called a Mr. Brian L. Buniva, Attorney for Sprint, to ask him how Sprint arrived at the decision of where the cell towers would be located. His assistant informed me that the cellular coalition (RCCA, RLEP, AACA) of Rappahannock County picked the seven sites.
If the cell towers were
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