A bid to expand

the Peachtree City Library with a new addition for its children's activities

has met with a little hurdle funding.

When the $1.6

million project was put on the fast track earlier this year, it was so

the city could attempt to get state funds for the expansion. But that

funding is in question since the state's library system has been moved

from the supervision of the Department of Technical and Adult Education

to the Board of Regents, said city Leisure Services Director Randy Gaddo.

To help drum

up support for the project, the city is seeking help from local state

legislators as the Georgia General Assembly prepares to begin its annual

session in January.

A detailed

packet has been sent to each local representative explaining what the

library intends to do with the expanded facilities.

"We're

trying to identify a source of funding that may exist even though it's

not in the normal chain," Gaddo said. "We don't know if the

Board of Regents will come up with money for construction or renovation."

Back when the

library had its latest expansion, in 1994 and 1995, 90 percent of the

cost was paid for with state funds, Gaddo noted. The city was hoping to

get that kind of funding for this expansion, he added.

"We're

bursting at the seams and not able to provide the children's service like

we should be," Gaddo said.

Gaddo said

a separate children's library will allow the library to hold more programs

for kids without interfering with adults who use the library.

The new children's

library would also give more room for the young adult and adult patrons

to be serviced in the area that currently occupies the children's book

section, Gaddo added. The plans are to use that space to spread out so

extra seating particularly for students who are studying may be provided

in the reference area and more stacks for books can be placed where the

children's section is now, he said.

"We'll

move all our children's services into the addition," Gaddo said,

noting that the area would even have its own check-out station for library

books.