Rebuffed

THOMPSON

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South Fulton

residents will know within 60 days if their services will be improved

from Fulton County.

That's the

word from Fulton County Commissioner Bill Edwards, who met recently

with about 50 residents from the Rico community.

The residents

met with Edwards after being rebuffed by the Coweta County Commission

in their annexation efforts.

Edwards described

the meeting as "positive" and said a lot of information was

exchanged between the residents and Fulton County officials.

"Many

people didn't know a lot of the services that were available to them,"

Edwards said.

Chief on

residents' list of wants are more paved roads, elimination of a lot

of the dust on the dirt roads, water and cable television.

"There

are some possibilities for helping them. But cable television requires

20 homes within a mile, which they don't have," he said.

Edwards is

working with Coweta officials on possibly tapping into water lines that

Coweta is running through South Fulton from Atlanta to provide additional

water to the Coweta residents.

Edwards met

with Coweta County Commission Chairman Robert Wood and said officials

in Fulton County are looking at the feasibility of tapping into the

water lines.

"It

looks real good, but all parties have to evaluate the situation,"

he said.

Edwards is

having various department officials in Fulton County look at the services

being provided to the far southern residents and see if the county can

improve.

After studying

the officials' responses, he plans to conduct another meeting with the

residents, probably in May.