The Peachtree City Council

has agreed to study the possibility of enacting term limits for members

of its volunteer boards, committees and authorities.

Creating such term limits was

one of several suggestions from Councilman Dan Tennant to enhance the

way council chooses residents to serve on those boards.

Despite all the animosity that

was exchanged at Thursday night's council meeting, council members Robert

Brooks and Annie McMenamin said they would both be interested in studying

term limits since they had supported that idea in the past.

Tennant was criticized by fellow

council members for making an issue over the appointment process, particularly

as it related to council's recent appointment to the Planning Commission.

Tennant's motion focused on

publishing the list of applicants in the city's legal organ and the city's

Update newsletter, which is sent to all residents. He also wanted council

members to rotate their service on the selection committee and for each

council member to be provided a copy of each candidate's application prior

to voting on that appointment.

Councilwoman Carol Fritz said

she has been studying council's selection process and several attorneys

have advised her that the city is acting properly. She criticized Tennant

for not seeking her opinion, but he claimed he didn't know she was looking

into the matter.

"What I'm proposing is

to make things far more public, far more even-handed, such that there's

no surprises, so the mayor doesn't say, 'Hey, by the way, I'm not going

to be serving on that one.' It's not right," Tennant said.

Councilwoman Annie McMenamin

said although the city's guidelines require the mayor to appoint the three-person

selection committee, some council members have had to fill in on occasions

where someone isn't available.

"Dan, I assure you anytime

you want to volunteer to serve on one of these committees, all you have

to do is say it first and nobody's going to rebut it," McMenamin

said.