City funding

for extra police and fire protection during the Great Georgia Air Show

(formerly Wings Over Dixie) will be considered again at Thursday's Peachtree

City Council meeting.

Air show officials

are seeking $21,000 from the city to pay the overtime for extra police

officers, firemen and emergency medical personnel needed the weekend of

Sept. 14-15. The matter was tabled at the previous council meeting as

several council members questioned the show's finances.

The council

has approved similar expenditures the past two years for Wings Over Dixie

and the Development Authority of Peachtree City footed the bill the previous

year in the airshow's first year.

Last year's

air show netted a profit of $39,897, with $24,470 split between the Fayette

Youth Protection Home and the Peachtree City Kiwanis Club. The remaining

$12,235 was paid to the Dixie Wing of the Confederate Air Force (since

renamed the Commemorative Air Force) as an air show management fee.

Council is

also slated to consider an ordinance regulating the use of model rockets

in the city. The proposed ordinance limits launching model rockets to

three areas in the city: Meade Field, the baseball/soccer complex on Ga.

Highway 74 south and the Braelinn recreation area at Log House Road.

The ordinance

would also limit the motor size of rockets that can be launched in the

city, but it doesn't forbid model rockets from being launched on school

grounds during a school activity as long as the launch is supervised bya

teacher.