If you want

to run a soccer tournament at one of Coweta County's fields, you'll soon

see a new set of regulations governing the county's facilities.

Coweta County

Commission chairman Leigh Schlumper said she was the county's Whitlock

Park two Saturday's ago and was approached by a person who was helping

stage a tournament at the site.

The person

was collecting entry fees for the tournament, but then Schlumper discovered

the tournament organizers were charging for parking at the county facility.

"I identified

myself and told them to get out of the parking lots. When I went back

in a couple of hours, they were back in the parking lot," she said.

Schlumper was

so angry she thought about banning the county's softball association from

using the fields, since they had allowed the tournament organizers to

use the facility.

But after she

calmed down, she said, she decided there had to be a better way to approach

the problem.

County recreation

director Carl McKnight said he had been in touch with the tournament organizers

in Marietta and was trying to get further details on how much the tournament

charged people to park.

"We have

got to have some rules governing these tournaments," said Commissioner

Vernon "Mutt" Hunter.

Schlumper suggested

possibly collecting the tournament entry fees before the tournament started.

The county receives 25 percent of any of the profits staged at county

facilities, she said.

McKnight said

he would work together with the softball and soccer associations in the

county to create rules and regulations governing any further tournaments

on county property.