MOULTRIE — The Moultrie City Council approved on Tuesday a contract with Carter and Sloope, an Albany-based civil engineering company, for a project to provide water and sewer service to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

The college is under construction on Tallokas Road and is expected to welcome its first class in August 2019.

City Manager Pete Dillard pointed out at a work session prior to Tuesday’s meeting that the water and sewer lines being installed would also allow service to the businesses and residences that are expected to grow up around the college over the next 10 years.

All decisions voted on Tuesday were part of a consent agenda, which did not allow for discussion of individual items, although some were detailed during the earlier work session.

Also on the consent agenda were the annexation and zoning of two adjacent properties on Tallokas Street. Divyesh Thakor, 1806 Tallokas St., and Kirenia Perez, 1804 Tallokas St., petitioned to be annexed into the city and for their properties to be zoned R-3 (multi-family residential district).

Dillard said duplexes are under construction on those sites, but the developer has discovered the soil is not suitable for septic tanks. By annexing into the city, he’ll gain access to city sewer and water services.

The requests were placed on first and second readings, which means the council will hold a public hearing July 17 before making a final decision on each property’s annexation and zoning.

In other action Tuesday, the council:

• Approved two change orders totaling $41,000 for work at Mule Barn Park, under construction on Central Avenue at Second Street. The changes involve an old drain pipe that was exposed when the city removed the sidewalk around the park. Dillard said the pipe is “full of holes” and would have had to be replaced regardless of construction at the park. Even before the groundbreaking at the park, city officials said the construction offered an opportunity to straighten out utilities that run under that block of downtown.

• Approved a bond validation for the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia.

• Approved a supplemental agreement with Colquitt County government for the distribution of Transportation Local Option Sales Tax funds. Under the state procedure, the Georgia Department of Revenue would give the county and each participating city their portions of the sales tax, which began collection April 1, but it would not provide money to the Airport Authority, Hospital Authority and Recreation Authority, which are also participating; the county and cities would each have to send a percentage of their portion to each authority to square up accounts. Instead, the city and county have agreed to have all the money sent to the county for distribution in accordance with the proposal approved by voters last year. This procedure is consistent with how the state divides up other special purpose local option sales taxes.

• Approved a bid of $217,752.90 for 49 transformers for the utility department. Dillard said this is in preparation for damage that might be done by storms this summer.

• Approved a plan to survey the Southwest Well with a video camera and to evaluate the results. Dillard said the city has had trouble with the well for some time and hopes the evaluation will show how to fix it.

• Approved a modification to the water tower attachment communication site agreement with Verizon Wireless.

• Heard from resident Jeron Bridges, who expressed concern about unpaved roadway where railroad tracks were removed on Fifth Avenue Southeast.