Senoia's new

City Council was greeted with mass resignations Monday night from the

city's staff.

Mayor Joan

Trammell announced at the close of the meeting that planning commissioner

Jack Merrick, librarian Sandra Frank and City Administrator Leonard Thompson

had submitted their resignations.

In his resignation

letter, Merrick said he had enjoyed his four-year relationship with the

city, but felt "that it would not be a compatible working relationship

with the mayor and council" that will be sworn in Jan. 7.

City councilmen

Robert Belisle and Bill Wood were sworn in Monday night to replace councilmen

who had resigned. Mayor Dianne Cleveland and Councilman Pat Tunnell will

be sworn into office in January.

Perhaps the

city's biggest loss was the resignation of Thompson. Thompson had worked

closely with Trammell in getting the city's sewer system up and running

and his resignation is effective Dec. 15.

In fact, Trammell

said that she and Thompson would be working on completing such projects

as the reopening of the wooden bridge on Bridge Street and light poles

and sidewalks leading to the bridge on Rockaway Road.

But when it

comes to sewer, Trammell asked the council to make a decision by the next

meeting, Nov. 26.

"There

was a lot of talk during the campaign about not completing the sewer system.

We need to know what you want to do," she said.

She also instructed

the council to start work on the budget. Trammell has done the budget

for the last four years, but said it's now up to the council to do it.