Fayette County's school board

has bought yet another school site ... or most of it at least.

Following an executive session

Monday night, the board bought a 81.3-acre site and an additional 32.5

acres next door, and voted to instigate condemnation proceedings to get

an additional 34.8 acres on Lisbon Road for a high school and an elementary

school.

Lisbon Road runs between Ga.

Highway 85 and Gosa Road and is about half way between Fayetteville and

Peachtree City.

Students at the new elementary

school will go to Whitewater Middle School, then on to the new high school.

But if the board decides an additional middle school is needed, there

will be room on this site for that as well, said Melinda Berry Dreisbach,

public information officer.

The board is paying $945,000

for the first site, owned by James V. Richardson. Julian E. Williams owns

the second site and will receive $478,000.

The schools are part of the

board's $65 million construction program, financed by bonds approved by

the voters last November.

This site is the second to

be purchased in recent months for the projects. Last month, a site for

another new high school and a middle school was acquired near Brooks.

During Monday's meeting, the

board also approved a new citizens' advisory committee to be involved

in the construction plans for the schools.