City may hire manager to run venue, take control from Tourism Association

Tourism board asks city to manage venue so it can focus on tourism goals

After hearing more than a dozen comments from amphitheater patrons, the Peachtree City Council directed staff to work towards resuming control of the city's amphitheater, currently operated by the city's tourism association.

City staff was asked to prepare a plan to hire an amphitheater manager in the near future. The association's chairman said the board also wants the city to resume management of the facility.

Mayor Harold Logsdon and Councilwoman Cyndi Plunkett agreed that any plan to change the management of the amphitheater should include consideration of how to best handle patron seating requests for season ticket holders.

If the amphitheater goes from its current concert schedule of two nights to one night, the city will have to figure out how to please season ticket holders because some, if not many, will have to be assigned different seats.

One resident said she preferred to go to concerts on Friday nights because she attends Auburn football games on Saturdays in the early fall.