A recent article

in the Newnan Times-Herald caused the Coweta County Board of Commissioners

a great deal of heartburn Tuesday.

The article

outlined how Coweta's salaries for their employees was starting to fall

more in line with neighboring counties.

But, the article

also listed salaries for county employees making more than $60,000 which

infuriated the board.

Chairman Jim

McGuffey started the attack by saying he realized that government salaries

were a public record, but felt the county's employees still had the right

to some privacy.

McGuffey also

pointed out the article did not list how many years of service the employees

had with the county.

"A lot

of those people are longtime employees and deserve those salaries,"

he said.

McGuffey said

the county had nothing to hide, but hoped the same investigative light

would be shown on other municipalities in the county.

Commissioner

Vernon "Mutt" Hunter said he also believed that employees had

a right to their privacy and questioned why the article was written.

"What

good did it do?" he said.

Commissioner

Lawrence Nelms also said he looked forward to the day when the salaries

of city of Newnan officials, along with Newnan Utilities employees, were

run in the paper.