Other business

In other business, the City Council:

• Approved on third reading an ordinance removing a time limit on signs placed near Exit 22 at Interstate 69.

• Approved on first and second reading an ordinance rezoning properties in the 2100 block of East 38th Street to Business-4 classification.

• Approved on all three readings ordinances repealing the vacation of a part of 17th Street and establishing a voluntary retirement program for 2009.

• Approved confirmatory resolutions designating economic revitalization areas for a hotel at Exit 22 of I-69 and a home to be built by the Community Development Department.

• Approved the transfer of funds for Animal Care and Control from salaries to professional services to pay the facility’s managers. Council members David Eicks, Donna Davis and Ollie Dixon opposed the resolution.