The city's pay plan is only

one example of how our administration kept the city council in the dark.

This was an on-going half-million dollar expenditure that was recommended

to City Council for approval without any financial details being provided

to the council, city clerk or even the finance director, until after I

submitted an official open records request for the information.

I eventually received the information,

along with a written disciplinary action from the city manager and mayor

for submitting the open records request.

Additionally, the City Council

might have voted to save the $25,000 consultant fee for an out-of-state

consultant to conduct a "customized" salary survey if they had

known that the administration had mislead them with false statements that

the Georgia Department of Community Affairs could no longer provide their

services for free as they had in previous years.

Until the citizens of this

community elect a council who will provide clear direction to the administration

that they expect an open government with a productive flow of communication,

then uninformed decisions are inevitable and skepticism will continue

to abound. It is time for our leaders to govern rather than be governed.

For information on how I plan

to do that, please visit my website: www.nancyfaulkner.com.

Nancy Faulkner

[email protected]

[Faulkner is an announced

candidate for City Council of Peachtree City. The Citizen welcomes letters

from candidates for all local offices and from citizens commenting on

the candidates and issues raised. We will print the letters from candidates

and a representative sampling of others subject to standard editing practices

for length and conformity to libel laws, until the week before the election.]

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