Fayette residents

may find it more convenient to get a driver's license in the future.

County commissioners

Thursday voted to fund a $43,900 remodeling project to provide new office

space for driver's license examiners in a house the county owns on McDonough

Road at County Line Road.

The examiners

currently are housed at the County Administrative Complex at Ga. highways

85 and 54 in downtown Fayetteville, where a space crunch is beginning

to develop, officials say.

Moving the

examiners out of the complex will allow the Georgia State Patrol to provide

examinations five days a week instead of the current one day, said commission

Chairman Greg Dunn.

That doesn't

mean the patrol will do so, but State Patrol and state Department of Motor

Vehicle officials have indicated a desire to increase the number of days

to at least two or three, said County Administrator Chris Cofty.

It will be

easier to get in and out of the new facility, said county finance director

Mark Pullium. "We do have a lot of traffic here, especially on Thursdays

when the driver's license office is open," he said.

The project

also will provide office space for Children at Risk and the Fayette Factor,

freeing up still more space at the county complex, and the county coroner

also will gain an office in the bargain.

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