The Board of Selectmen approved a lease of a municipal radio tower to be located on Daniels Avenue near Southwest Elementary School.
The board authorized First Selectman Dan Steward to enter into an agreement with SBA Communications Corporation, a Florida-based company that operates radio towers across the United States.
The radio tower will be similar to the one the town is building on Rogers Hill.
Steward said the towers are an integral part of the town’s new emergency communications system approved last year.
According to Steward, SBA will pay the town $1,500 a month for the land until 2013.
“If they decide to add cell carriers to the tower, the town will receive additional revenue,” Steward said.
The town will have approval over additions to the tower.
Steward hopes to have the land surveyed in the next month and expects to have the tower raised and functioning by the end of August, though the project still has to clear the Planning and Zoning Commission and will be subject to a public hearing.
DTC Endorses Incumbents
The Waterford Democratic Town Committee endorsed all incumbents for this November’s General Assembly and congressional elections.
Rep. Betsy Ritter, D-Waterford, will seek her third term representing the 38th District as will state Sen. Andrea Stillman, whose 20th District also includes New London and parts of Montville.
The Waterford DTC also endorsed freshman Congressman Joe Courtney, the Vernon attorney who unseated Rob Simmons in 2006 in the closest House race in the country. Courtney is opposed by Republican Sean Sullivan, the former commander of Sub Base New London.