Charleston City Council approved a resolution to authorize liquor licenses for two restaurants and rejected a bid to work on the parking lots downtown Tuesday night.

The meeting on Tuesday reintroduced a subject brought forth at the July 3 meeting.

Two additional Class D liquor licenses were granted out to the city. Charleston previously had twelve Class D liquor licenses, those issued to restaurants, issued.

Council members and John Inyart received no feedback regarding the liquor licenses after the first introduction of the topic in the earlier meeting.

The city is in preparation to work on the parking lots located in close proximity to the square.

The city only received one bid to do the work, which was from someone outside of Charleston.

“It’s detailed work, different then what many people in this area usually do,” said councilperson Larry Rennels.

The council rejected the only bid received and are starting over. Scott Smith, City Manager, will determine whether to go out for other bids in the future.

“Some of the smaller lots we can do in-house, like the library parking lot,” Smith said.

“It’s to be determined whether we’ll get to another lot this year.”

In other business, the council approved the resolution to work with Mattoon in the FutureGen project.

This is the first step in the plan as the specifics for the funding and costs to be discussed.

Charleston has set into motion the plans to send affluent water to the site of FutureGen. This is filling in the gap for the 4.3 million gallons needed by Mattoon.

“This far it still needs to be included in the offer that Mattoon makes so that it can be the best offer made to FutureGen,” said Charleston Mayor John Inyart.

In further months specific plans will be laid out for the cost-sharing aspect of the venture.

Other business included:

The City Council passed a resolution to allocate advertising funds for the Embarras River Valley Film Festival.

The Council passed a resolution to approve $13,882.44 to Ameren CIPS for a relocation of utility poles located on Jackson Avenue. These poles will be placed underground to help with the construction of a bridge.

The council tabled the bid award of the City Hall renovations. The renovations will be discussed at the Charleston City Council meeting on August 7.