Pasco Real Estate Blog

The Herald ran a story this week about improved cell phone reception coming to portions of West Pasco, which is all very good and worth reading if it affects you.

But the article talks about how the Pasco School District has now twice turned down cell companies who wanted to pay to place towers on school property: one is the new US Cellular tower that the company wanted to put on the building at McLoughlin Middle School, and the previous case was when a company wanted to attach a antenna to a light post at Edgar Brown Stadium.

The District said “no” in both cases. On the first case, PSD’s Larry Mayfield is quoted in the paper saying, “The school district could certainly use the money. But in terms of the offset for that, it just wasn’t a positive move for the district.” And in the second case, the District thought having an antenna on a light post at the stadium might reduce the “overall appeal” of the stadium.

Doesn’t it seem odd that, in this time of tremendous budget problems, the Pasco School District would be turning away easy money for what I would think would be relatively unintrusive equipment on school property?

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