MOULTRIE, Ga. — The Moultrie City Council will hold a called meeting at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday on the second floor of the Municipal Building. Two of three items on the agenda relate to an attempt to limit alcohol sales near a proposed medical college.

The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine will hold a groundbreaking for its South Georgia Campus April 26 in the 2100 block of Tallokas Road, near Veterans Parkway.

A package store already operates down the street from the site, and a convenience store is under construction nearby.

Moultrie City Manager Pete Dillard said on Monday that the council hopes to get ahead of land acquisition on Tallokas Road to limit businesses inappropriate for that location.

“There are people from Atlanta already scoping out land on Tallokas,” Dillard said.

On Tuesday, the council will vote on first and second reading of a change to the city’s alcohol beverage ordinance. As it is currently written, the ordinance prohibits the sale of wine and malt beverages within 100 yards — and distilled spirits or fortified wines within 200 yards — of a school. The proposed change specifically adds a college campus to the rule.

Many ordinances describe schools and colleges differently, Dillard said, so this serves to clarify that the same rules apply to both as regards the sale of alcohol.

The two existing businesses may or may not be outside the legal parameters, he said, but in any case would be grandfathered in because they’re in place before the college.

A first and second reading indicates the council’s willingness to consider a matter. The change will not become law until the council approves third and final reading, which is expected to be considered at the regular council meeting on March 6.

The council will also consider Tuesday whether to establish a 30-day moratorium on alcoholic beverage licenses throughout the city.

A third item on the agenda is not related to the alcoholic beverages law or the medical college. The Housing Authority of Macon-Bibb County is seeking the city’s permission to issue bonds to purchase an apartment complex in Moultrie.

Dillard admitted to being perplexed about why a housing authority 130 miles away wants to buy a facility here or why it needs the City of Moultrie’s permission to do so. He said he hoped the city attorney would be able to provide more information at Tuesday’s meeting.