Wednesday, May 1, 2002
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Wednesday, May 1, 2002 |
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Air show security funds on line at PTC Council meeting
By JOHN
MUNFORD
City funding for extra police and fire protection during the Great Georgia Air Show (formerly Wings Over Dixie) will be considered again at Thursday's Peachtree City Council meeting. Air show officials are seeking $21,000 from the city to pay the overtime for extra police officers, firemen and emergency medical personnel needed the weekend of Sept. 14-15. The matter was tabled at the previous council meeting as several council members questioned the show's finances. The council has approved similar expenditures the past two years for Wings Over Dixie and the Development Authority of Peachtree City footed the bill the previous year in the airshow's first year. Last year's air show netted a profit of $39,897, with $24,470 split between the Fayette Youth Protection Home and the Peachtree City Kiwanis Club. The remaining $12,235 was paid to the Dixie Wing of the Confederate Air Force (since renamed the Commemorative Air Force) as an air show management fee. Council is also slated to consider an ordinance regulating the use of model rockets in the city. The proposed ordinance limits launching model rockets to three areas in the city: Meade Field, the baseball/soccer complex on Ga. Highway 74 south and the Braelinn recreation area at Log House Road. The ordinance would also limit the motor size of rockets that can be launched in the city, but it doesn't forbid model rockets from being launched on school grounds during a school activity as long as the launch is supervised bya teacher.
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