With no further complications, Peachtree City should be able to resolve at its Oct. 1 meeting a lawsuit over apartment building.

As a result of an executive session following the Sept. 17 meeting, an agreement has been drawn that should resolve all the issues in a suit brought by Eric Edee as a result of the city's moratorium on apartments, said City Manager Jim Basinger. He described the agreement as providing "good buffers" along Ga. Highway 74 and Kedron Drive, the proposed site for Edee's 200-unit apartment complex.

"We're optimistic that this agreement will resolve all the issues," Basinger said, "assuming there are no changes. It's a good site plan, according to our planning department."

At its last meeting, the council also reviewed the Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) budget for 1998-99. The authority projected a budget of $2,325,412, an 11 percent increase over last year. WASA director Larry Turner told the council that increases will allow for staff to do 24-hour monitoring of stations, but "we are having difficulty finding qualified people; we are five short now." He also discussed a generator for the Line Creek facility that has been ordered, commenting that "portable" generators available already would not have been large enough to prevent sewage spills occurring when summer storms caused power outages.

"A generator to run a plant like that has to be custom manufactured," Turner said, "and it should be here in the next few weeks."

Other backups to prevent problems include a "dual feed" setup through Georgia Power, Turner said, that will draw power from one plant to another in the event of failure.

Council also reviewed a draft survey for Peachtree City residents, designed to determine willingness to use a bus service to Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport.

Basinger said the city would hope that something could be worked out with "the private sector" in the event there is a good response to the survey. Representatives from Peachtree Airport Limo told the council that the company had considered a bus service, and Basinger said the city would be happy to work with them or anyone else interested in solving the problem.