After a

month of research, the Senoia City Council decided Monday

night to pay the city's yearly dues to the

Chattahoochee-Flint Regional Development Center.

Council

decided to pay the dues after receiving a report from the

center outlining the work the planning agency has done

for the last four years.

In July,

the council voted to wait for further information before

paying the dues.

Mayor Joan

Trammell said she would like to see a list from the RDC

on grants the agency has helped the city write and the

success rate of the grants before agreeing to pay the

dues.

During

Monday night's council meeting, the council members

looked at the report and learned how many projects the

center had worked on for the city.

Some of the

projects included:

- Helped the city engineer with a

community development block grant application in 1997.

The grant was won and the city received $500,000 to help

provide sewerage to the city's low-income residents.

- Served as the city's zoning

administrator for several months in 1997.

- Worked with the city Planning

Commission to rewrite Senoia's zoning ordinances in 1998.

- Compiled a lake reservoir management

plan for Hutchinson's Lake in 1998.

- Conducted Census 2000 training with

the city's staff.

Trammell

thanked the center for providing the report and

recommended the city pay its dues for another year. The

measure passed unanimously.

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