South Fulton

residents will know Monday if their services will be improved from Fulton

County.

Fulton County

Commissioner Bill Edwards met in February with about 50 residents from

the Rico community. Edwards pledged to ask Fulton County officials to

see what could be done about the plight of the residents in Rico.

Monday's meeting

is set for the Rico Community Center at 7 p.m.

At the meeting,

county staff will provide the latest information on topics such as road

maintenance and dust abatement on dirt surfaces, water supply and economic

development.

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.

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