The town of

Tyrone is moving ahead with its ambitious plans for a new

town hall.

The Town

Council agreed last week to form a committee to find land

for the new administrative complex. Committee members are

councilman Ray Bogenschutz, councilman Paul Letourneau,

planning commission member Lyn Redwood and town clerk

Valerie Fowler.

The town is

looking for 10 acres and has appropriated $180,000 in

this year's budget to purchase the land. The new town

center is part of the town's capital improvement program,

which will also add new recreational facilities to the

town.

While

there's no money in this year's budget to start

construction on a new town hall, town manager Barry Amos

said the town is anxious to get the land purchase

completed.

"We

want to do this as quickly as possible, so we can move to

the next step," he said.

Amos

estimated it will be two to three years before a new

building is built.

In other

news from last week's meeting, councilman Ronnie Cannon

complimented county officials for presenting the town

with a copy of the county's proposed overlay plans for

Ga. Highway 74.

The county

has only five parcels on the busy state highway and is

recommending mirroring the restrictions Tyrone already

has on the rest of the road.

Cannon has

been critical of the county lately for not providing

enough services for the amount of tax money the town

sends to the county. But Cannon was happy with the

proposed overlay and thanked the county for following the

town's lead on Hwy. 74.

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