The Livable Centers Initiative

(LCI) plan was approved by the Lenox administration which included the

multiuse path bridge requiring the land purchase.

To date, Peachtree City is

the only jurisdiction that has actually invested in the TDK Extension

project and these funds came out of the council contingency (fund).

The project was first placed

on the Public Improvement Plan for 2004 during the most recent budgeting

process.

We invite all citizens to

come review the records at City Hall and see that the former mayor never

had the TDK Extension project in the budget or the Public Improvement

Project during his 10-year tenure.

Brown, Rapson response as 'city'

was improper

[A]bout the newspaper article

in The Citizen in which the headline of the front page read "City

Disputes Lenox Claims": I was justifiably upset, and I remain upset

this morning having slept on it.

After further inquiry, it is

clear that the two of you [Mayor Steve Brown and Councilman Steve Rapson]

were responsible for sending the press release in which "the city"

disputed Mr. Lenox's claims in his letter to the editor.

I spoke to Betsy Tyler last

night, and she informed me she had nothing to do with the letter, despite

the fact she is the city's public information officer and the press release

went out to the newspaper via fax ostensibly on her letterhead.

I have also spoken to [council

members] Annie McMenamin and Murray Weed, and we are all equally upset

that none of us were consulted in this maneuver. We are also upset that

the two of you took it upon yourselves to issue a press release to respond

to a letter to the editor.

It is not appropriate for "the

city" to respond to any letter to the editor. Such a letter is by

definition an opinion, and is up for the reader to make his or her own

judgment about its content and validity. The fact the letter in question

was from former Mayor Bob Lenox is wholly inconsequential, and the content

of Mr. Lenox's opinion is also irrelevant.

Mr. Lenox could have claimed

the moon is made of green cheese or that the end of the world is at hand.

In fact, he wrote about his version of the spending of city funds and

Mr. Brown's influence in the matter. In any case, the city has absolutely

no business responding to any claims to any letter to the editor.

Understand that I am NOT siding

with the former mayor's response. As you know, I voted along with both

of you to spend the money for the "tot lot," for which the former

mayor is highly critical. This is a very important matter of principle.

The point is that we (the city) should NEVER issue any kind of press release

to respond to any letter to the editor. It is unheard of and it makes

an erroneous implication of complicity with the entire council.

I am still at a loss to understand

how a city "feels" anything, let alone "compelled to respond".

Exactly who is the city? In this case, it appears the city is a minority

of council members, namely you two.

If either or both of you feel

"compelled" to respond, I ask that you do it on your own time

in your own words without implying it is an official press release from

council, which it was not.

What we hope to announce after

our vote next Thursday to announce the TDK agreement with the county is

an example of an appropriate such news release, where all five members

of council are aware of such a release and agree to its content.

This is very serious matter,

and a very dangerous precedent has been set. It is my understanding and

belief that city personnel were used on city time to help craft this "response"

and I have grave concerns about the misuse of city employee's time in

the matter.

I strongly suggest each of

you issue a public apology to the three of us and the rest of our citizens.

And I more strongly suggest you do not employ this method of communication

again.

Dan Tennant

Mayor Pro Tem