The Center for Municipal Solutions (CMS)
Municipal Telecommunication Consultants
(Comi Telecommunications Services and Monroe Telecom Associates)

Who is CMS and What Do We Do?

We are The Center for Municipal Solutions. We team with, represent and assist local governments in their efforts to regulate communication towers and wireless facilities. CMS is the oldest, most experienced & largest public sector organization of our kind in the nation, representing several hundred communities in 28 states and have reviewed more than 2,000 applications and have never had a recommendation successfully challenged in more than a decade.

We enable communities, often for the first time, to make informed decisions based on all their options and rights. We focus on striking a balance between the needs of the community and those of the carrier creating win-win situations. This helps protect the nature and character of communities by enabling the community to require the facility to have the least visual impact from towers and wireless facilities.

We review wireless applications and make written recommendations as regards what should be approved or not approved and why it should or should not be approved and attend all meetings and hearings.

To open opportunities for new and increased non-tax revenue, we can also help local officials actually require the use of County or City owned property. We can also shorten the time factor to get cellular service up and providing service.

We will provide, and if desired will administer, our model ordinance and customize it for each community as well as give a written report and recommendations. This ordinance is generally considered to be the preeminent one of its kind in the nation and has been used by more than 2,000 communities in one form or another.

We also provide expert witness services for litigation at the federal or state level, though neither our model ordinance nor our work product has ever been successfully challenged. As importantly as anything, we also ensure that the multiple safety standards are met and that towers and wireless facilities are actually built as designed and permitted.

We provide all these services at NO COST to the Community.