With less than

three months to go before its municipal elections, the city of Senoia

was rocked this week as one councilman called for another's resignation

and audio tapes of phone calls circulated through town.

Councilman

Pam Youngblood asked Councilman Diann Cleveland to resign after the revelation

that tapes containing conversations between Mayor Joan Trammell, Cleveland

and Youngblood had been taped by Cleveland.

"On Tuesday,

Aug. 7, 2001, two audio cassette tapes were received in the mail. One

of these tapes was given to Mayor Trammell along with the box in which

it was mailed," Youngblood said.

"The tapes

contained numerous spliced phone conversations over a period of time between

council member Cleveland and myself, council member Cleveland and the

mayor and one three-way call between the mayor, Cleveland and myself."

Youngblood

said all the calls were placed prior to Sept. 23, 2000, and were recorded

from Cleveland's phone without the other two's knowledge or consent.

"They

were private conversations with someone I trusted as a friend," she

said.

"I have

since been told council member Cleveland was recording her incoming phone

calls to get messages from her father's doctor regarding his medication.

"Two of

these calls were initiated by Cleveland to my home and one call was initiated

to the mayor's home. This is easily determined by the fact the mayor and

I said hello at the beginning of the conversation. These phone calls were

not accidentally kept answering machine messages; they were calls that

were deliberately recorded," she said.

Youngblood

said she did not know why Cleveland would do such a thing, but it needed

to be handled.

"I feel

this matter is an embarrassment to the citizens of Senoia and needs to

be handled quickly and appropriately," she said.

Youngblood

called for Cleveland to resign and not seek reelection in November.

But Cleveland

firmly stated that she had no intention of resigning and said she has

done nothing illegal or unethical.

Rather, she

feels betrayed by people she felt were her friends.

"'Et tu

Brute.' I now know how Caesar felt," she said Wednesday.

Cleveland said

her attorney has assured her that no law was broken and she reiterated

the fact that conversations were taped on her father's answering machine

because she was taking care of him during an illness, and he would not

remember the exact words of doctors' calls he would receive during the

day.

Coweta County

District Attorney Pete Skandalakis said he was not familiar with details

of the case, but said Georgia law allows phone conversations to be recorded,

as long as one party gives consent to the taping.

In this case,

Cleveland would have given consent.

Reportedly,

the tapes contain conversations about former Councilman Ken Gordon, who

was seeking election last fall.

Cleveland also

said she had no idea what is on the tapes, but said she has been overwhelmed

"I've

had nothing but positive response from people who have told me to hang

in there," said Cleveland.

Cleveland plans

to keep doing her job as a council member and will seek reelection this

fall.

No one in town

has owned up to delivering the tapes to the mayor, and Cleveland said

she is consulting with her lawyer to see if possible charges will be filed

against the person who took the tapes from her father's home.

Mayor Trammell

did not return phone calls to comment about the situation.