Another

step toward a new police station in Peachtree

City is scheduled to be taken tomorrow night when

the City Council considers an agreement with the

Georgia Municipal Association concerning the

construction of the new facility.

With

the help of the GMA's Bricks and Mortar financing

program, the city will pay for the $2.3 million

loan over 15 years at 5.27 percent interest. A

resolution has been drafted by the city laying

out these terms.

The

resolution also authorizes the city's acceptance

of a GMA bid of $138,750 for the police station

property. The property would then be transferred

to the city as part of the agreement.

Other

city business scheduled for Thursday includes a

variance request for the construction of Line

Creek Parkway that would allow a change in the

paving standards of the project.

Developer

Michael Rossetti has asked that he be allowed to

increase the thickness of the graded aggregate

base from six inches to eight inches, eliminate

the three-inch asphalt base and increase the type

B asphalt binder from two inches to 3.5 inches.

Overall,

the paving section would be increased by a

half-inch if the variance is approved, but the

increase would be in less expensive base

material, and the actual thickness of the asphalt

would be reduced by an inch and a half, according

to a city staff memo.

City

engineer Troy Besseche said Monday that in this

situation the city could find it necessary to

resurface the road sooner than under normal

circumstances.

According

to city staff, Rossetti has indicated he would be

willing to invest some of the money he would save

in a landscape buffer between the parkway and the

homes in Wynnmeade.

He

also said that without the variance, he would be

able to do little if any buffer landscaping.

Nevertheless,

staff has recommended denial of the variance

request, saying that the standard the city

applies to major thoroughfares has served the

city well even though it is more expensive than

the standard used by the Georgia Department of

Transportation.

The

City Council is scheduled to consider several

board appointments at tomorrow night's meeting. A

committee consisting of city manager Jim Basinger

and council members Annie McMenamin and Jim Pace

has looked at five candidates for the Water and

Sewerage Authority, while Basinger, McMenamin and

council member Carol Fritz considered three

candidates for the Recreation Commission.

The

committee has recommended that Michael Harmon be

appointed to the WASA for a five-year term

beginning Jan. 1. Also recommended is the

reappointment of John Connolly and Jan

Shannon-Zink to the Recreation Commission for

three-year terms beginning at the same time, with

Tammy Pakulski being suggested as an alternate.

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