Coweta

County officials made it clear this week that the county

is not for sale, in a manner of speaking.

County

administrator Theron Gay told the commissioners that the

county tax office now has the technology to make the

county's tax records available on disk.

For a fee

of $50, which would just cover expenses, residents and

other interested parties would be able to purchase a

computer disk with all the county's residents' tax

holdings on the disk.

The disk

would contain such items as the property owner's name and

number of acres owned, but it would not have the assessed

value of the property.

The

information is public information and is currently

available to anybody who wants it, but Gay said officials

in the tax office said the sale of the disk would cut

down on their research time for customers.

Commission

chairman Vernon "Mutt" Hunter said he could not

go along with the plan.

"I

don't have a problem with the price. It's just that I

don't feel we need to sell this information to

everybody," he said.

Commissioner

Jim McGuffey agreed with Hunter and said it's not the

government's job to sell that kind of information.

The

commissioners reiterated the information is public record

and readily available, but they want people to come in

and get it, instead of having the information widely

circulated.

But

Commissioner Robert Wood disagreed with his colleagues

and said the procedure would be the same as if a customer

wanted a copy of a document.

Hunter

listened to Wood's argument but was not swayed.

"I'm

just not going to vote for it," he said.

The

commission voted against selling the information 4-1,

with Wood casting the lone dissenting vote.