Now that they

have land for the Hollingsworth House and have placed the house on the

land, Main Street Fayetteville officials today will ask the Fayette County

commissioners for the parking lot behind it as well.

Commissioners

meet at 3:30 p.m. at the County Administrative Complex.

In April 1998,

commissioners agreed to allow Main Street to move the historic house to

a small site owned by the county, between the Board of Education building

and the Administrative Complex on Stonewall Avenue, leasing the site for

a dollar a year.

In March 2000,

the group voted to go ahead and give Main Street the property, up to five

feet behind the footprint of the house, along with the land on the sides

and front up to the streets.

But the group

decided to hang onto the parking lot, which was built several years ago

to handle overflow parking for both the Board of Education and the county

complex. Commissioners said they might need the land if they ever have

to enlarge the complex.

Today, they'll

discuss going ahead and giving away the parking lot. Long range plans

now are to build a new county complex next to the jail and courthouse

complex (soon to be under construction), rather than expand the current

complex.

Approval of

a construction bid for the jail and courthouse is not on the agenda, but

may be brought up as a staff discussion item.

Bids were opened

last week, and the apparent low bidder was Bell Construction at $31.98

million for the first phase of the project, construction of new pods for

the jail and construction of the new courthouse.

Renovation

of the existing jail and the existing courthouse (the courthouse will

be used for sheriff's offices) will be bid later, to be done after the

first phase is finished.

Also on the

agenda, the Protocol Task Force and Child Fatality Review Committee will

go over revised procedures for handling child abuse cases. Those procedures,

mandated by the state, recently were changed by the state, and the local

task force must revise its own procedures to match the state's.

The task force

meets monthly and is composed of representatives from local law enforcement

agencies, courts, the Health Department and other agencies that deal with

children.

April is Child

Abuse Month in Georgia.

The commission

also will consider renewing its employee insurance contributions and benefits.

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