The city council will vote tonight on a number of items, including the re-codifying of the city code.

Every ordinance and change that has been made goes into the city code and the current city code hasn’t been changed for a couple of years, said Mayor John Inyart. This ordinance will help make the code comprehensive and standardized.

If approved by the council, Sterling Codifiers will help put everything together and the code could possibly be put online for the general public to see, Inyart said.

As part of a $7 million reconstruction of the Charleston Carnegie Public Library, the council will vote to approve a contract with Bodine Electric, who will help with the electrical aspects of the reconstruction, Inyart said.

A&R Mechanical Contractors Inc. of Urbana, who will help with the plumbing, heating and ventilation, and Automatic Fire Sprinkler LLC of Normal, who will help with fire protection, have already been hired.

At the last city council meeting, a $164,000 allocation was put on file which would help pay for the resurfacing of a parking lot that is currently owned by the Charleston school district but is also used by the Rotary Community Aquatic Center in the summer. Because the lot is used by the city, the council will vote to authorize the city’s contribution on Tuesday.

Before making an official budget, the council must vote to put the annual tax levy ordinance on file, which will be done Tuesday night. The ordinance states how much the city needs in preparation of their local budget and is then sent to the county government. Inyart said the budget won’t be done until next spring.

When Garfield Avenue was built, it was build into sections. Inyart said there is a section that was “not officially dedicated to the city” even though the city maintains and plows it. Inyart said it must have been overlooked for years and the council will vote Tuesday to make that section of Garfield Avenue officially Charleston’s.

The council will also vote on granting Carolyn Shobe, who has a house on Eleventh Street, a zoning map amendment. The building was deemed commercial property when it was zoned because Shobe has a business in her house.

“She’s having bad luck selling (her house) to a business,” Inyart said.

Shobe would like to switch it to residential so she can sell it as a residential home.

Every year the city must enter into a contractual agreement with the Coles County Regional Planning and Development Commission. The city enters into a “blank contract” with the commission so the city can use its services next year, Inyart said. The commission applies for and administers grants and enters contracts with other municipals like the other cities or the county.

The last item on the agenda is the authorization of a revolving loan fund to True Value owner Jeff Holloway.

“The city gets certain money from the state it can loan to businesses so it can expand,” Inyart said.

Means of expansion include retaining jobs or adding a position.

The loan must not exceed $90,000 and have the interest of no less than 3 percent.