A number of

city projects that are either unbudgeted or underfunded are becoming a

significant cause of concern for Peachtree City Mayor Steve Brown.

The list of

projects totals over $10 million in unbudgeted funds. The projects range

from repairs to city buildings to various improvements to the cart path

system such as tunnels and repairs.

Some of these

projects have been put off for years, including the estimated $500,000

needed to dredge the Three Ponds area, Brown said.

"We've

got to do something about that before it becomes a swamp," Brown

said. "You can't keep putting things like that aside, but we've been

doing that for years."

Emergency repairs

to City Hall that are already underway will cost approximately $175,000.

And the city is short by over $426,000 to relocate utility poles for the

widening of Ga. Highway 54, Brown said.

That doesn't

even count the millions of dollars the city will have to spend to replace

storm water infrastructure to meet new state and federal mandates, Brown

added. It is possible that the city will create a separate storm water

utility to help fund those projects.

As for the

other unfunded and underfunded projects, Brown said the city needs to

focus on enhancing its revenue streams.

"We've

got to do more economic development locally," Brown said. "That's

a large revenue for us."

The funding

problems can be solved, Brown said, but much depends on the negotiations

with Fayette County on the distribution of the local option sales tax,

he added.