A Peachtree

City councilman's suggestion to study a change in Peachtree City's municipal

elections process was resoundingly rejected by his fellow council members

at Thursday night's regular meeting.

Dan Tennant

had proposed looking at how council members are elected. But Councilwoman

Annie McMenamin said she wanted to drop the subject so no one would be

confused before this November's election.

Council voted

to end the discussion, thereby ending its only regular agenda item of

the evening; the regular session of the meeting lasted just over 15 minutes.

Council later met a while longer in executive session to discuss a personnel

matter, but no official action was taken afterward.

Currently,

the council seats are citywide and thus voters may vote for more than

one candidate.

In many other

Georgia municipalities, cities are broken up into districts so that voters

from a certain district may only vote for candidates for that particular

council seat.

Tennant suggested

the process could be changed so council members don't declare for a certain

seat, rather the top two vote getters in the election would be awarded

the council seats.

But Mayor Bob

Lenox noted that could leave a situation where one or both council members

was elected without a majority vote from the electorate, particularly

when a large number of candidates qualify for office.