Coweta County's

branch of the Georgia State Patrol may soon have a new home.

The Coweta

County Board of Commissioners voted after its executive session of Aug.

6 to continue its efforts to provide a new headquarters for the Newnan

Post of the Georgia State Patrol by proceeding with the acquisition of

property for that new headquarters building.

The new State

Patrol post was listed among the projects to be funded under the Special

Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) extension approved by voters in

2001. Public Information Officer Tom Corker siad nearly $1.5 million was

allocated in the vote for purchase of property and a new building.

The current

location for the GSP is on Temple Avenue. Corker speculated the new site

could be located near more of the county's main arterial roads and Interstate

85.

During the

Board's Executive Session, the Board voted to "authorize staff to

proceed with the acquisition of site X for the State Patrol headquarters."

The Board of

Commissioners has expressed a desire to see this project move along as

quickly as possible in order to provide a state of the art facility for

the local State Patrol operation.

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