It will be

at least next year before Senoia's Public Works Department has a new building

to call home.

In the latest

tangle between Mayor Joan Trammell and new City Council members, the council

voted Monday night to postpone awarding a bid to build the facility until

at least January.

The dispute

started two weeks ago when Councilman Bill Wood said he was not comfortable

with the bidding process involved for a new public works building.

Trammell and

City Administrator Leonard Thompson had recommended accepting a low bid

of $81,000 for the project. The project is a ready-built metal building

that will have the insides finished by city and county workers.

But in looking

over the bids, Wood said that only one company submitted a bid for the

stripped down project and he needed more time to examine the bids.

Monday, Wood

said he still had a problem with the bids, which sent Trammell into a

tirade.

"You need

to write down exactly what you want and submit it to (city administrator)

Thompson. Otherwise, I won't allow anything to be done until the end of

the year," she said.

Wood said he

was fine with waiting on the project, and Councilman Robert Belisle motioned

that new bids should be conducted after the first of the year. The motion

passed 4-1 with Trammell voting against it.

She apologized

to Public Works Director Bobby Hogan for the delay in the project and

said the council was cutting down all the work the city staff had done

in obtaining the bids.