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Councilman Kyle Frank hopes that what he witnessed last

week continues.

Frank

attended a meeting of all the municipalities and local

governments in Coweta County. The meeting was suggested

to work closer on their planning strategies.

"Hopefully,

this will promote cooperation between the cities and

county and the Board of Education," he said.

With Coweta

County's rapid growth in the last decade, many of the

county's leaders want to try and work closer to make sure

that all the leaders know what's going on in neighboring

jurisdictions.

Mayor Joan

Trammell said she had received a briefing from the

meeting that calls for all of the governments' staffs to

compile their land use plans and comprehensive growth

plans to compare with the other towns and county.

As for the

Board of Education, Frank said they board is basically in

a reactive position.

"They

have to build schools where the people move," he

said.

Frank added

that he was impressed with the presentation the

Chattahoochee-Flint Regional Development Center made at

the meeting and urged city administrator Leonard Thompson

and town planner Bill Johnston to work closer with the

regional planning agency.

Trammell

agreed with Frank and said the planning agency is

currently working on a grant to obtain funding for a

regional transportation study.

"That's

something I'd really like to see happen," she said.

The meeting

originally drew the ire of the county commissioners, who

blamed Coweta's sprawl on Newnan's recent spate of

annexations and development along Bullsboro Drive in

Newnan.

But Frank

said all the parties were civil and instructed their

staffs to get back together for future meetings.