To: Petaluma City Schools - Board of Education - Executive Director

The money you receive from the cell tower will be a fraction of the indirect costs to health, safety and school liability in the short and long term. [...] The authors surveyed the resident’s health symptoms before placement of cell towers, during cell tower functioning and after removal of different antennas on the rooftops. [...] They also found that within 5 years of operation of the transmitting base station the relative risk of cancer incidence tripled in residents near the cell tower compared to resident living outside the area. [...] After hearing extensive testimony in a series of 13 meetings over the course of a year and reviewing an abundance of research, the Commission highlighted the lack of a single definition for 5G, insufficient evidence of safety for 5th generation technology, a concern that safety standards for wireless technologies have not been updated with the latest science and that 5G is largely a marketing conc. [...] Several decades of research in the military and occupational setting, as well as basic science indicates that the use of wireless technology poses a risk to the health, mental function, behavior, memory and learning of students.