At Wednesday night's meeting

of the Peachtree City Library Commission, Director of Leisure Services

Randy Gaddo told the commission that the expansion/renovation process

was on track. Gaddo stated that the Daly Company started on schematics

and the design right away and would like to have one more public workshop

to go over their plans in January.

Construction is expected to

start in July of 2004 and be completed in November of 2005. Gaddo also

stated that the bond process is moving along, though it has yet to be

decided whether the bond will be sold privately or publicly.

After that, the meeting got

interesting.

Commission member Madge Quick

brought up the possibility of extending the terms of library commission

members until the renovation/expansion project is completed. The library

commission members can serve two three-year terms. Quick brought this

up because Commission Chairman Chris Clark will have to rotate off of

the commission in June of 2005.

"We are involved in a

matter of public trust and should stay through the process," stated

Quick. "I expect a hard hat when the time comes to make sure it looks

right. it will be too late when it is completed."

Quick suggested a possible

one time exception to the term limit bylaw, which the commission created,

but Gaddo felt this would be inappropriate.

"According to Robert's

Rules of Order, bylaws should not be amended to apply to a specific item,"

said Gaddo. "There needs to be a compelling reason to change the

bylaws and I'm not sure this is."

Clark agreed with Gaddo, stating

that he too was opposed to extending terms. "This goes against the

American political system," said Clark.

Clark did see a good compromise,

though, and will have the bylaw committee, which consists of Vice-Chair

Marie Washburn and Mary Ann Browning, look at the bylaws and come back

before the library commission in February with a recommendation.

"I'm not opposed

to changing term limits," said Clark, "but it can't just

benefit us."

Though term limits will come

up at the February meeting of the commission, the library commission invites

the public to their meeting Jan. 14, which will double as a public workshop

with Leo Daly Company and a reception to tank the voters for supporting

the library expansion/renovation project. The meeting will take place

in the meeting room of the library and will start with the reception at

6 p.m.