In addition to human life at stake, the Verizon cell tower may damage our homes and will significantly diminish the values of our properties as well as all properties in our entire neighborhood. There is no legal requirement whatsoever mandating that a municipality lease publically owned land to any business. However, the administration of the City has misled residents, and even members of the Common Council and the Plan Commission, to the effect that the City has no choice. The destructive path Mayor Ponto is taking must be stopped at once. The Mayor has chosen to fight the residents of Brookfield by engaging a Madison law firm rather than consider alternative options for the Verizon cell tower. Verizon will use the cell tower, along with as many as three other carriers, to generate millions of dollars of revenues from the transmission of the Internet to smart phones and tablets with the installation of upgrades to their 4G LTE network.