Peachtree City Mayor Harold Logsdon wants the city to consider increasing the size of the tourism association board from five to seven members.

Logsdon said he thought a city council member should be one of the new members to help provide oversight of the association, a separate entity that operates the city’s tourism events in addition to the tennis center and amphitheater.

Councilman Stuart Kourajian indicated he would likely not support adding a council member to the tourism board.

Logsdon also suggested perhaps adding a member to the association from the city’s airport authority, which currently gets 20 percent of hotel-motel taxes passed to it through the tourism association.

The association currently consists of citizens who have careers in tourism and often are out of town, which can make it difficult to have meetings with enough members present to take action, Logsdon indicated.

City officials will investigate the matter more thoroughly and make a formal presentation to council at a later date to perhaps make the change in the association’s by-laws.

Just last spring the city council changed the association’s makeup to remove the requirement that a council member and the city manager serve on the association. Although that opened up all five seats on the association for citizens to serve in a volunteer role, council still retains control over appointing citizens to those positions.

At the same time, council added the city manager and finance director to the finance committee of the tourism association.

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