The city council approved a contract between Bodine Electric and Charleston Carnegie Public Library for $413,000 Tuesday night.

This is one of many contracts the council has approved for the reconstruction of the library.

The council has approved contracts for all of the following areas: general trades, steel and concrete, plumbing, a sprinkler system and now the electrical. In all, the project will cost $7 million.

The city will make also make a $16,400 contribution to help pay for the resurfacing of a parking lot used by the city but is owned by the Charleston school district. The parking lot, located between Putt-N-Swing and the Charleston Middle School, is used in the summer by the Rotary Community Aquatic Center.

Carolyn Shobe, who owns a house on 11th Street, requested a zoning map amendment and received it Tuesday night. Shobe’s house had been commercial property because she had a business in the house. But because she was having trouble selling it as such, she requested her house be switched to residential property.

“(Shobe’s presence) was a wonderful business and we’re sorry to see it go,” said council member Lorelei E. Sims as she addressed Shobe directly. “We wish you best of luck.”

The section of Garfield Avenue roughly between Route 130 and 11th Street, which has been maintained and plowed by the city for years, was officially dedicated to the city Tuesday night.

Mayor John Inyart said the section must have been overlooked and was in need of official documentation. “It’s ours now,” he said.

The city also entered into a contractual agreement with Coles County Regional Planning and Development Commission.

The commission applies for and administers grants and makes contracts with other municipals. According to the agreement, the contract must not exceed $7,000, Inyart said.

Jeff Holloway, owner of True Value, received a revolving loan fund from the city Tuesday night.

The loan must not exceed $90,000 and have an interest rate of no less than 3 percent. The term of the contract is five years.

The annual tax levy ordinance was put on file for public examination and will be voted on at the next meeting.

The ordinance, which is completed before the official budget, states how much the city needs in preparation of their local budget. It is then sent to the county government.

One item was brought back and will not be voted on until a later, unspecified date: approving a re-codified city code.

“Even though the company is done with it, we aren’t,” Inyart said. “We still want to have an in-house review, a legal review with our attorney and we also want to let the company finish its legal review which is a separate step.”

Inyart said he thinks the council just got in a hurry and warned that if the proper time and consideration was not put into the re-codification of the city code that it could have backlashes.

For instance if there was an error in the new city code and it was approved, it would supercede everything the council has ever approved, Inyart said.

“If there is an error in this book, even though what we did way back here was right, the book could actually change that,” he said.

The city code, once approved, will be put online, making it much more accessible to the public, Inyart said.