Friday, December 22, 2000
Friday, December 22, 2000 |
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New PTC flag will be designed by firm, not contest, though public input sought
By JOHN
MUNFORD
Instead of having a citywide contest to design a new city flag, the Peachtree City Recreation Commission wants to hire a professional design firm to do the job. Randy Gaddo, the city's director of leisure services, said it was determined that a flag design contest among citizens wouldn't get the desired results. Instead, the commission will hold a public hearing on the proposed flag design before it recommends to the city council that it be adopted. The cost of designing the flag, and a new city logo to go along with it, is estimated at around $5,000, Gaddo said. The flags would cost between $200-$250 each for embroidered models, he added. The city previously had a banner that was designed using a contest among citizens, but a copy of the banner has not been found, Gaddo said. The current city logo, incorporating a rendering of a peach tree, "is a 70s vintage and doesn't reflect the current state of being in Peachtree City," Gaddo said. The proposal was adopted unanimously by the commission. In other business, Gaddo presented several changes to the five-year public improvement program for the Recreation Department. The construction of two new softball fields was removed from the 2002 and 2003 fiscal years due to lower participation levels, freeing up $375,000. In place of those fields, the recreation staff wishes to fund construction of a maintenance storage facility at the Kedron recreational center and expansion of the maintenance building at the Ga. Highway 74 South complex in 2002, Gaddo said. The following year, some of the funds from the softball fields would be used to build restrooms at the multipurpose rink. The commission will also need to decide in the near future whether two new soccer fields are needed with a cost of over $490,000 in 2003 and 2004, Gaddo said. The department already has the land to build five more soccer fields if needed, Gaddo said. Gaddo said the commission will be asked to officially act on the public improvement program recommendations at its first meeting in January.
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