The woes continue to mount for Lithonia Mayor Joyce McKibben.

The city council on Monday approved hiring an expert to copy the hard drive of a computer that police said she had a supporter remove from City Hall on April 7, when a contentious power struggle between McKibben and the council began. The computer, which has been kept in a police evidence locker since then, is part of a lawsuit between McKibben and the council.

Meanwhile, McKibben's opponents have another week to gather just 39 more signatures to force a recall election. And, legal notices show that McKibben is losing her $123,000 home to foreclosure.

McKibben declined to comment Monday about the foreclosure, but last week talked about the recall effort and her opponents.

"God said for me to be still and do nothing," McKibben said of the recall effort and other issues swirling around her. "Sometimes you can't do anything. You pray and you leave it to God."

McKibben denies that the disputed computer is the one the city issued to her, saying there was a mix-up. Other city officials say the computer was in the mayor's office before being removed, though no one could access it because the passwords were changed.

Officials worry that documents on the computer may be needed to conduct city business and might also be evidence in McKibben's lawsuit against the city. That suit remains tied up in DeKalb Superior Court.

"We need that data," said councilwoman Doreen Carter. "We want that done, so we can move on from this."

If McKibben's opponents are successful in their signature-gathering this week, "moving on" might include a special election later this year.

A half-dozen of McKibben's opponents have come close to gathering the 330 names needed to force an election. They so far have 291 signatures from voters in the November 2007 election that put her in office and have until Monday to finish gathering names.

"We will get them. I guarantee it," said Jason Lary, who had to cancel the summer jazz series he contracts with the city to promote because he said McKibben would not sign a business license he paid $300 for earlier this year.

On the personal front, a legal notice set McKibben's four-bedroom home on Harmony Lakes Circle in foreclosure late last month. McKibben bought the home, now appraised at $160,200, in 1998, according to county property records.

Foreclosures sell on the first Tuesday of the month on the courthouse steps, though McKibben's house will not be sold this week, according to a representative from the foreclosure service handling the sale.

McKibben's home is slated to be auctioned on Oct. 7, a representative from the McCall Raymer Law Firm in Roswell said, though no payments had been made on the outstanding debt as of Monday.