This campus is ideal in that

the classrooms have movable walls allowing adjustments in usable space

for different groups, storage space for ongoing event planning, and most

important, an auditorium seating 600 persons. This auditorium will provide

a tremendous venue for performance groups, meetings and a wide variety

of other uses. For the teens in our city, since the seats are removable,

it could provide a gathering place for our young people for dances and

other wholesome activities.

Many of the organizations using

the building would gladly pay a fee for the use of the rooms and auditorium.

At the present time there is no reasonable facility for performances during

the colder months and, obviously, an indoor facility would greatly enhance

the presentation of concerts and plays.

As the campus now stands, little,

if any, renovation needs to be done to make the property usable. Ample

parking is already in place and will not be anymore of a hindrance to

the surrounding homes that is already taking by a church facility.

As the director of the Peachtree

Wind Ensemble Community Band, our local community band residing here in

Peachtree City, I have toured the building and I can state that this campus

is certainly an almost instant solution to the problem many of our arts,

crafts, drama, dance and other groups have been putting up with for years.

Our concert band, made up of

your neighbors and friends have been rehearsing and performing for the

citizens of Peachtree City and Fayette County for 11 years. During that

time we have had to search for and change our rehearsal site over 15 times.

Four times in 2001 alone! We have not been able to present an indoor concert

in an adequate concert hall but once in that 11 years, and, ours is not

the only performing group with this problem.

Therefore, speaking for the

50 members of our concert band, and the many other organizations looking

for a permanent home, I strongly urge the voters to vote yes on the bond

issue coming up in the general election in November.

A citizenry that allows the

grass roots arts to suffer and dissipate only hurries the day when civilization

will lose its humanity.

Vote yes in November!

Bob Lancette, Director

Peachtree Wind Ensemble

Community Band