2018-05-03 Hearing Transcript - Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Wireless USE 17-074

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EGAN: My name is Patty Egan, and I am currently in the process of starting construction on a house on 13th, just off of Kaloli. HALL: Oh, no, go ahead please, proceed with your testimony. CLARKSON: Go ahead with your testimony. EGAN: Oh, okay. I just have a few things to add about the perception about the health hazards of radio waves from a cell tower. I, too, am very concerned with health and exposure to anything that may hurt me, my granddaughter, my friend's family. And, according to American Cancer Society and several other scientific studies that I read, radio waves are not DNA disruptive. Actually, you can get more DNA disruption sometimes from your actual cell phone or routers in your house, and public exposure to radio waves from cell tower antennas is slight for several reasons. The power levels are relatively low, the antennas are mounted high above the ground, and the signals are transmitted intermittently rather than constantly. And, at ground level the emission of these radio waves is a thousand times lower than the limits for safe transmission set by the Federal Government. So, I think, you know, the concerns about high frequency radio waves is substantial but these are not the same thing. I also feel that having a cell tower there that would enable everybody to have access to connectivity is important for emergency such as we're looking at right now. If everybody has good connectivity, they can get that, plus the police and fire could use it. You got it, I'm done. Thank you. HALL: Oh no, you don't, you have a minute. H. HENRY: Hello, I'm Hope Henry, and I live at 15-1389 13th Avenue in HPP. I want to thank you for taking the time to hear my testimony today. I've been working on this cell phone tower for almost four years. I live in an area where I have to go outside to make a phone call and sometimes the calls drop three or four times in one conversation. I do not have a landline because as a retired person, I have a budget and I have to decide what I can afford. I can't afford a landline and a cell phone. And, so I decided to have a cell phone because it also, you know, if I'm away from my house, there's no payphones anymore. You know, I can't call and it's for safety reasons, it's better to have a cell phone with me. It worries me to think what would happen if someone tried to break in at night, and in HPP just recently we had two break-ins, one while people were sleeping upstairs. I don't know what I would do. I guess I would text a friend and hope they heard my text. I can't text the police department to say help me, 911. I'd have to go outside and say hi to the person breaking in to get help, and that's a horrible feeling to have. Or if I was ill, having a heart attack in my bed, you know, it's just not okay. When we had that missile alert, we closed all our doors, it was probably futile but, you know, what are you going to do when you have that kind of crisis? We closed all our doors. I couldn't call my kids. I had to text them. I want you to think about that if you think that you only have maybe only a little while to live and you can't call your children to say goodbye, you have to text them. EXHIBIT B 10