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ERHS cell tower agreement reachedLast week, the Hamilton County Commission approved a 25-year lease agreement between the Board of Education and Tower Assets Newco IX LLC that will allow for the erection of a cell tower on the campus of East Ridge High School. In return for allowing the tower to be placed on the school’s campus, the cell tower company will give a $10,000 donation to ERHS. The company will also pay $1,500 a month in leasing fees and 35 percent of the gross revenues collected by the tower company from cellular services that use the structure, and this money will be split between the school system’s technology fund and ERHS.
Howard School alumni are upset that the Hamilton County Board of Education included their alma mater on a list of schools to get new bleachers when the group has been asking for a new stadium.
The alumni have requested a stadium for decades because the school is in a flood plain that leaves its current stadium soaked after hard rains, said Kenneth “Super T” Simpson, president of the Howard High School Alumni Association.
“We are in support of a new stadium because of contamination and safety concerns for our children,” Simpson said. “We have major concerns because of flooding. We have been at games on Friday and raw sewage comes up out of the toilet in the women’s restroom. That’s unsanitary.”
Also, the bricks underneath the home side of the stadium are decaying, and the track is so deteriorated that Howard track athletes go to another field to practice.