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Residents offer paid telecom ordinance drafting and urge Kootenai County to drop license-plate-reader funding
Summary
Speakers at the Aug. 12 Kootenai County commissioner status meeting urged the board to accept a privately funded draft telecom ordinance after HB 180 and asked that automated license-plate reader funding be removed from the proposed 2026 budget.
Jen Noel, a representative of the grassroots group Stop Smart Cities, told the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 12 that her organization offered to pay legal fees to have an outside attorney draft a county telecom ordinance customized for Kootenai County.
"Stop Smart Cities has offered to pay all fees to hire mister Caponelli to draft a telecom ordinance customized for Kootenai County," Noel said during public comment. She said the offer followed a recent state law, HB 180, passed during the 2025 legislative session and effective July 1, 2025, that she described as making it easier for telecom companies to deploy cell towers.
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