Fayetteville

City Council is considering changing its meeting day to Thursday instead

of Monday.

If council

approves the change, its meeting nights will be first and third Thursdays.

The Fayette County Commission and city councils of Peachtree City and

Tyrone meet on Thursdays, though those groups' meetings are second and

fourth Thursdays.

Fayetteville's

council currently meets first and third Mondays, and has workshop meetings

the Wednesday before each meeting to discuss agenda items.

But during

those discussions, council often has questions or asks for changes to

proposed ordinances that require more than the three business days between

Wednesday and Monday for staff response, said Mayor Kenneth Steele during

Monday night's council meeting.

"They

really don't have the time to get questions answered between a Wednesday

and a Monday," said Steele, adding that in 2001 there are four holidays

that conflict with Monday council meetings.

Council Monday

conducted first reading of the ordinance changing the meeting days. If

approved during council's first meeting in January, the new meeting days

will take effect on the second meeting, which would then be Jan. 18 rather

than Jan. 15. Jan. 15 will fall on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

The first meeting

of 2001 already will be postponed due to a holiday conflict. It falls

on New Years Day and will be Jan. 8 instead.

If the changes

are approved, council's workshops will continue to be on Wednesdays, a

week and a day prior to the business meetings.

The ordinance

amendment also would change the Planning and Zoning Commission's organizational

meeting from the meeting following the first Monday in August to the one

following the first Thursday in January.

In other action

Monday, the City Council approved amendments to the city's noise ordinance,

updating it in accordance with recent Supreme Court rulings.

First reading

of a proposed ordinance regulating swimming pools was conducted. The law

would conform to new state laws allowing local health departments to inspect

swimming pools and spas that serve apartment complexes and country clubs,

and in other semiprivate situations.

Inspectors

would still have no authority to regulate private single family home pools

and spas, or spas that serve hospitals and other health care facilities.

Council is

expected to act on the swimming pool ordinance Jan. 8.