By MONROE ROARK
Staff Writer

Another step toward a new police station in Peachtree City is scheduled to be taken tomorrow night when the City Council considers an agreement with the Georgia Municipal Association concerning the construction of the new facility.

With the help of the GMA's Bricks and Mortar financing program, the city will pay for the $2.3 million loan over 15 years at 5.27 percent interest. A resolution has been drafted by the city laying out these terms.

The resolution also authorizes the city's acceptance of a GMA bid of $138,750 for the police station property. The property would then be transferred to the city as part of the agreement.

Other city business scheduled for Thursday includes a variance request for the construction of Line Creek Parkway that would allow a change in the paving standards of the project.

Developer Michael Rossetti has asked that he be allowed to increase the thickness of the graded aggregate base from six inches to eight inches, eliminate the three-inch asphalt base and increase the type B asphalt binder from two inches to 3.5 inches.

Overall, the paving section would be increased by a half-inch if the variance is approved, but the increase would be in less expensive base material, and the actual thickness of the asphalt would be reduced by an inch and a half, according to a city staff memo.

City engineer Troy Besseche said Monday that in this situation the city could find it necessary to resurface the road sooner than under normal circumstances.

According to city staff, Rossetti has indicated he would be willing to invest some of the money he would save in a landscape buffer between the parkway and the homes in Wynnmeade. He also said that without the variance, he would be able to do little if any buffer landscaping.

Nevertheless, staff has recommended denial of the variance request, saying that the standard the city applies to major thoroughfares has served the city well even though it is more expensive than the standard used by the Georgia Department of Transportation.

The City Council is scheduled to consider several board appointments at tomorrow night's meeting. A committee consisting of city manager Jim Basinger and council members Annie McMenamin and Jim Pace has looked at five candidates for the Water and Sewerage Authority, while Basinger, McMenamin and council member Carol Fritz considered three candidates for the Recreation Commission.

The committee has recommended that Michael Harmon be appointed to the WASA for a five-year term beginning Jan. 1. Also recommended is the reappointment of John Connolly and Jan Shannon-Zink to the Recreation Commission for three-year terms beginning at the same time, with Tammy Pakulski being suggested as an alternate.