City Council members were told Tuesday night that the city has received a number of applications from people interested in the Beeville Main Street manager’s position.

City Councilwoman Libby Spires asked for the subject to be included on Tuesday’s agenda.

“I just hadn’t heard anything,” she said.

City Manager Ford Patton said the Main Street Advisory Board was scheduled to meet next Monday and the members would have a number of applications to review. He expects the board will schedule some interviews with applicants in the near future.

Former Main Street Manager Molly Young reminded the council that the average salary for Main Street managers in cities the size of Beeville is $40,000 a year. She said the city has less than that budgeted for the position.

Young also reminded the council that the Texas Main Street program will hold its annual training session for Main Street managers in Beeville on Aug. 5-7 and that on Aug. 4 the city will host a Texas Capital Fund workshop. Because Main Street managers depend on grants from the Texas Capital Fund, most of the 89 Main Street managers from around the state are expected to be in town for that event too.

The Texas Capital Fund is managed by the Texas Department of Agriculture.

Young said she expects every hotel and motel room in the city to be filled that week.

She said most of the breakfast, lunch and dinner events are being sponsored by businesses and organizations in the city. But she asked if the city could provide snacks and refreshments for some of the breaks the managers will be taking.

County Commissioner Susan Stasny was at the meeting. She has been one of the program’s most ardent supporters. She thanked the council for its funding of the Main Street program and reminded them that the program had brought investments of more than $12 million in a 33-block area around downtown Beeville.

In other business, the council heard a report on its audit of city finances for the fiscal year ending on Sept. 30, 2008, from Corpus Christi accountant Ernest Garza. The auditor said the city has been improving its financial situation.

The council also:

— Approved a water conservation and emergency water management plan devised by Urban Engineering of Corpus Christi and voted to pay the company $8,347.40 for the work it did.

— Authorized a $10,841 change order to the city’s relocation of a water line in the downtown area. The change will allow the contractor of that job to replace 315 feet of an aging eight-inch water line there.

— Voted to designate signatories for a Texas Community Development Block Grant application.

— Appointed Russell Riggle to the city’s Board of Adjustment.

— Heard a report on an offer from the Texas Department of Transportation to provide paving improvements on the runway and parking apron at the Beeville Municipal Airport. The two-stage project is expected to cost $1,044,000 with the state paying 90 percent of the cost and the city paying the rest.

— Allow the city staff to seek proposals from contractors for building concrete cart paths at the John C. Beasley Municipal Golf Course at Veterans Memorial Park.

Patton said the bids are to be opened on July 16 so that the city staff can review them and make recommendations to the council at its July 28 meeting.

— Heard Patton report on the progress of restroom repairs being made at the Little League complex at VMP.

Patton said the city had begun a daily maintenance routine for the facilities.