It's about to become much easier for residents to familiarize themselves with the ordinances of Peachtree City.

The city is in the process of codification of its entire ordinance book, which has recently been edited by the Municipal Code Corporation and reviewed by the city's various department heads. Some minor changes and updates were presented to the City Council at last week's regular monthly meeting.

The new ordinance book will be in an 8.5" x 11" format with chapters in alphabetical order. The code will also be provided on a computer disk, and a link from the city's own Web site to MCC will enable residents to check out ordinances online.

The council unanimously approved the changes and the final step in the codification process at last week's meeting. City clerk Nancy Faulkner said that she expects the completed publication to take a couple of months. The last time this was done was in 1980, when the population of Peachtree City was 6,429. The city is now five times that size.

Numerous citizen requests are made for reviewing ordinances and codes, and Faulkner says serving them will be much more efficient with these improvements, saving many staff hours, especially if the Internet option is used.

"People will still come in [to City Hall], and that's fine," she said. "But if it's on computer here, it's going to be much easier just to print it out for them. It's going to be a lot more organized, and it'll be a lot easier to find things."

This kind of large codification procedure is not required by law, although each time an ordinance is passed it is sent to the MCC to be codified. It is being done to make things more efficient and convenient for staff and residents, Faulkner said. In other business, four alcoholic beverage licenses were approved Thursday night by the City Council. Arnie's Fine Wine, Liquor & Beer is relocating from the Braelinn Village Shopping Center to a new building at 1115 Crosstown Court.

Owner and license holder Arnold Geiger applied for transfer of his retail package dealer's license to the new location. The request was approved 4-0, with Councilman Jim Pace abstaining due to his firm's dealings with Geiger concerning the new building. "I want to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest," he said.

Kedron Package Store, at 1007 Georgian Park, applied for a license with Jimmy Halligan appointed as licensee and George Miller as license representative. It was approved unanimously. Also receiving unanimous approval was Glen Powell, owner and licensee for Agnes & Muriel's, for his application to sell beer and wine at the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater.

The final request was from Don Pablos restaurant at 100 Market Place Blvd., with Louis James Profumu appointed as the licensee and David Price as the license representative.

Five vendors were asked for bids on a new mini-pumper, and two bids were submitted. The low bidder was Southern Fire Services & Sales Inc. with a price of $53,439. The staff recommendation was to accept the bid and make up the $6,323 budget shortfall through the Public Improvements Program Contingency Fund. The bid was accepted. A bid of $32,576.40 was received from Estes-Landers Landscape Design Inc., for landscaping installation, wall construction and gate work at the Baseball and Soccer Complex. That bid also was accepted.

The council accepted a bid of $49,500 from Tiftway Sports Inc., for grading, irrigation, sprigging and related work at Meade Softball Field number one. Southern Outdoor Lighting receiving the lighting portion of the project at a cost of $43,241, while B&D Fencing Company bid $23,400 for the fencing and was accepted. The total cost of the project is $116,141, of which $41,760.50 will be funded from the PIP Contingency Fund.