MARIETTA - Cobb School Board Chairman John Abraham said the board would take another vote on whether to allow a cell tower to be built at Eastvalley Elementary School off Lower Roswell Road.

Abraham said he would place the item on Wednesday's meeting agenda and then call for a vote at the board's Oct. 22 meeting. Abraham said he's calling for a revote not out of any sense of wrongdoing on the part of the board, but because board member John Crooks, who represents the school, asked him to.

Crooks did not return calls for comment.

Senior Cobb Superior Court Judge Michael Stoddard issued a 30-day restraining order on Sept. 21 that halted all work on the controversial cell tower.

Three parents who live next to the school requested the restraining order Sept. 9. At issue was the surprise move at the school board's July 23 meeting, when Crooks called for the board to approve a request from T-Mobile to erect the 150-foot cell tower - which the board did in a 7-0 vote. Yet when the board's agenda was published on its Web site earlier that week, nowhere did it mention a vote on the cell tower proposal. Crooks later admitted that if he hadn't placed the item on the agenda at the last minute, "it would have probably caused a circus."

The three parents requested a temporary restraining order because they believe the board violated Georgia's Open Meetings Law by placing the cell tower vote on the agenda the day of the meeting. Open Meetings Act violations may be brought to the court within 90 days of the violation. The remedy is to declare the vote void and require the government body to revote.

Abraham says he hasn't yet decided how he will vote on Oct. 22.

"I want to know what has changed since the last vote," Abraham said.

Vice Chairwoman Lynnda Crowder-Eagle said she didn't know how she would vote, either.

"I still have a few more questions I'd like to ask John Crooks regarding the forum (on the cell tower held at the school in the spring). I've received some e-mails from people who want it, but probably more from people who don't. I'd like to find out more about what the consensus was at the forum," she said.

Crowder-Eagle said her policy on cell towers is to do whatever the community wants. When a cell tower company wanted to build a cell tower at a school she represents, Vaughan Elementary, and the principal found out there wasn't any support, the proposal was dropped, she said.

In related news, one of the men to file suit against the school board, Ricky Welkis, filed a complaint with Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker on Sept. 30, requesting he launch an investigation into the school board for violating the Open Meetings Act.

"As taxpayers and citizens, we are deserving of accountability and transparency from our elected officials. Consistent violations of laws must be addressed and appropriate actions taken," Welkis writes.

Welkis and others have scheduled a community forum on the topic at 2 p.m. Saturday at Eastside Baptist Church located next to the school at 2450 Lower Roswell Road in Marietta.