Wednesday, December 20, 2000
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Wednesday, December 20, 2000 |
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Fayetteville council may change meeting days By DAVE
HAMRICK Fayetteville City Council is considering changing its meeting day to Thursday instead of Monday. If council approves the change, its meeting nights will be first and third Thursdays. The Fayette County Commission and city councils of Peachtree City and Tyrone meet on Thursdays, though those groups' meetings are second and fourth Thursdays. Fayetteville's council currently meets first and third Mondays, and has workshop meetings the Wednesday before each meeting to discuss agenda items. But during those discussions, council often has questions or asks for changes to proposed ordinances that require more than the three business days between Wednesday and Monday for staff response, said Mayor Kenneth Steele during Monday night's council meeting. "They really don't have the time to get questions answered between a Wednesday and a Monday," said Steele, adding that in 2001 there are four holidays that conflict with Monday council meetings. Council Monday conducted first reading of the ordinance changing the meeting days. If approved during council's first meeting in January, the new meeting days will take effect on the second meeting, which would then be Jan. 18 rather than Jan. 15. Jan. 15 will fall on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. The first meeting of 2001 already will be postponed due to a holiday conflict. It falls on New Years Day and will be Jan. 8 instead. If the changes are approved, council's workshops will continue to be on Wednesdays, a week and a day prior to the business meetings. The ordinance amendment also would change the Planning and Zoning Commission's organizational meeting from the meeting following the first Monday in August to the one following the first Thursday in January. In other action Monday, the City Council approved amendments to the city's noise ordinance, updating it in accordance with recent Supreme Court rulings. First reading of a proposed ordinance regulating swimming pools was conducted. The law would conform to new state laws allowing local health departments to inspect swimming pools and spas that serve apartment complexes and country clubs, and in other semiprivate situations. Inspectors would still have no authority to regulate private single family home pools and spas, or spas that serve hospitals and other health care facilities. Council is expected to act on the swimming pool ordinance Jan. 8.
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