The results

of an investigation into the propriety of hotel-motel tax contracts between

Peachtree City and its development and airport authorities are not yet

in.

Even if the

report by council's special appointed attorney, Winston Denmark, is finished

soon, it won't likely be considered by the City Council until its Aug.

15 meeting.

That's because

Councilman Steve Rapson will miss the next meeting, Aug. 1, because he

will be out of town. Rapson, who joined a 4-0-1 vote to begin the investigation

months ago, was recently admonished for doing so by the city's ethics

board since his wife Kristi has filed a suit against the Development Authority.

Rapson has

not decided whether he will appeal the ethics board's decision. If he

does so, the matter will be considered by his fellow council members per

the city's ethics ordinance.

The ethics

complaint against Rapson was filed by former mayor Bob Lenox, whom Rapson

has accused of signing those hotel-motel tax contracts with changes that

weren't approved by council last year. The most significant change requires

that both the city and authority must agree if it is ever necessary to

lower the funding of the authorities.

Lenox contends

that the changes were made to the contracts before council voted to authorize

him signing the documents. City Clerk Jane Miller also said those revisions

were in the contract that council voted on last year because the amended

version of the contract was placed on the dais for each council member.

It is also

claimed that the changes were e-mailed to each council member before the

meeting by City Manager Jim Basinger, but Rapson and councilman Dan Tennant

argue they did not receive such a document via e-mail.