I read George Wingo’s latest letter to the newspapers. I know my memory isn’t perfect so I rechecked my notes and the minutes. Then I re-read George’s letter, trying to “connect the dots.”

I couldn’t connect them. Maybe you can. If you have Internet access, go to www.admin.co.fayette.ga.us. Click on “Upcoming Meetings and Events,” go to “Board of Commissioners,” click on “Commissioners Meeting Minutes and Agenda of Actions,” and down to “Archives.” There you can see them.

You will note that I did not have much to say, but I listened carefully.

You will see that the County Commission voted; “to table the Resolution to allow credit/debit card payments ... until such time as the verbiage was acceptable ...” Just after this, Chairman Dunn suggests, “the best way would be for Mr. Wingo to come in and sit down with the Board and go over it”. I think this was a nice, polite and cooperative way for us to respond.

Mr. Wingo states in his letter, “I cannot recall and cannot find anything in the minutes on that meeting to support Commissioner Pfeifer’s assertion that “we (the commissioners) asked Tax Commissioner Wingo to go and find out how ...”.”

Isn’t that exactly what we did discuss and isn’t that exactly what the motion stated? Did Mr. Wingo think that someone else was being asked to do this?

After that meeting, the next time I heard about this subject was last August, I believe, when Mr. Wingo forwarded an e-mail from a taxpayer. And, then when George wrote to the newspapers.

Even though George starts his latest letter, “Ordinarily, I choose not to engage in political bickering in the news media. I find it distasteful and generally unproductive, ... blah, blah blah,” I remind you that he wrote the FIRST letter to the newspaper on this subject. I have merely replied to his failure to state the facts.

I suppose that one of the County Commissioners could have worked on it, but George has been very touchy when he can accuse someone of intruding in his area. In this case did he think that we were voting to do his job for him?
In his latest letter he also says, “of the 21 counties now considered metro Atlanta counties, Fayette County is the only one that does not ...” He also says, “I have twice been before the county governing authority and requested their approval of this on-line motor vehicle registration process. Twice they have refused to approve it.”

Since the only notes I can find that touch on this subject are the ones I have referred to, April 10 and May 7 of 2003, and since he doesn’t seem to have attended the first meeting and since the Commission did not “refuse to approve it” at the second meeting, can he let us know what “twice” he is referring to? And, perhaps why of the “21 counties” he is the only one who hasn’t been able to work cooperatively to put this together?

Peter Pfeifer
County Commission, Post 3
Peachtree City, Ga.