MICRO-CELL SITE SET NEW INSTALLATION SHOULD IMPROVE PHONE RECEPTION.Byline: Amy Raisin Staff Writer AGOURA - Construction is scheduled to begin later this month on a micro-cellular site at Agoura High School's football stadium in an effort to enhance cellular phone service in the area. The facility will eliminate so-called dead zones and allow the Las Virgenes Unified School District Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD) is a K-12 school district in north-west Los Angeles County, USA consisting of 14 public schools in the cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Westlake Village, and several small portions of the West Hills section of Los Angeles. to use cell phones donated to Agoura High School Agoura High School is a four-year high school, freshman-senior, in Agoura Hills, California, United States. It is the largest high school in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. under Gov. Gray Davis' Safeguard Our Schools program. Dead zones around Calabasas High and Round Meadow Elementary schools will be addressed soon. ``We've had cell phones at all our schools for two years now,'' said Deputy Superintendent Deputy Superintendent, or Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), was a rank used by police forces of the British Empire. In some territories it was called Deputy District Superintendent of Police (DDSP). Don Zimring. ``But without the (micro sites), the phones just don't work.'' Sprint PCS/Cox Communications will install the micro site at no charge to the district. In fact, Zimring said, the communications company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. must pay a fee to erect the instrument on the public site. Safeguard Our Schools provides cellular phones to campuses statewide, allowing them to directly contact law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). in an emergency or when traditional phone lines are inoperative Void; not active; ineffectual. The term inoperative is commonly used to indicate that some force, such as a statute or contract, is no longer in effect and legally binding upon the persons who were to be, or had been, affected by it. . Zimring said the school district board approved the micro site installation at its meeting Tuesday. The battle over cell towers, and smaller versions like the one that will go up at Agoura High, is not new. People across the country have expressed fear that the microwave transmissions may harm people and the environment. Zimring, however, said the only complaints the district has received from parents have been that their cell phones do not work in the same areas where the micro sites are needed. ``It's been an ongoing concern in the absence of emergency contact in our schools,'' he said. |
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