Measures to help bring a Dollar General store downtown again and to change how the city addresses issues such as street cuts and on-street parking will be on the Bowling Green Board of Commissioners’ Tuesday agenda.

The first readings of two ordinances – one to rezone a majority of Block 7 in the Tax Increment Financing District from planned unit development and light industrial use to highway business and another to close portions of an alley in the block – will be considered during Tuesday’s regular board meeting at 7 p.m.

The block is a small triangle of land behind the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center bounded by Sixth and Seventh avenues and Center and Kentucky streets that was originally supposed to be used as parking for SKyPAC before the construction of a parking garage in nearby Block 6 of the TIF district.

Members of the board voted in April to declare property that the city owned in that block surplus. Ownership was transferred to the Warren County Downtown Economic Development Authority in anticipation that it would be used as a location for a Dollar General store and potentially another retailer.

The Dollar General on East Main Avenue closed in 2010 after having operated in downtown Bowling Green for about 54 years.

Commissioners will also vote on the initial readings of two ordinances, which together will revamp a number of public works policies.

Those policies include how public works employees deal with issues such as street cuts, rights of way, on-street parking and stormwater.

Some of the proposed changes include a new five-year warranty on street cut repairs, requiring the organization that received permits to perform street cuts to fix them if the repair fails and a one-hour limit on on-street parking for large vehicles, such as trailers or campers, except when making a delivery or picking something up.

A vote is also set for Tuesday on the first reading of an amendment to the Warren County Zoning Ordinance.

Bowling Green is one of five municipal governments that must approve the zoning ordinance amendment before it goes into effect. The others are Smiths Grove, Plum Springs, Oakland and Woodburn.

More than 200 changes are included in the amendment dealing with numerous elements, including billboards, restaurant parking and subdivisions.

Warren County Fiscal Court has already given final approval to the ordinance, though with some changes to the version initially approved by the City-County Planning Commission.

Judge-Executive Mike Buchanon and county magistrates objected to changes to the fire protection section of the ordinance. They eliminated a provision preventing residential structures in unincorporated Warren County from being more than five miles from a Warren County fire station and kept the required water flow at 250 gallons per minute when the ordinance amendment called for an increase to 350 gallons per minute.

City officials will likely vote on a version of the ordinance that includes changes made by Fiscal Court, Mayor Bruce Wilkerson said.

The changes impact only residences outside of city limits, he said.

“We would defer to them on county issues,” Wilkerson said.

Other issues up for consideration at the meeting include the purchase of a Voice Over Internet Protocol phone system for the city at a cost of $385,000 and revisions to the promotional procedures for the Bowling Green fire departments.

The city’s current phone system is about 15 years old and has experienced problems with the voice message system in the past, said Lynn Hartley, Bowling Green’s chief information officer.

The change to a VoIP was first proposed in 2008, but was postponed because of the economic downturn, he said.

Some changes to the promotional procedures came as a result of complaints from employees last year about the fire apparatus operator skills test, Human Resources Director Michael Grubbs said. Annual testing for the fire department will be started by the end of July.

The grievances were resolved, but the city wanted to clarify the policy, he said.

The current wording of the policy states that all candidates will perform the same pump operations and driving exercises as part of the skills test.

Employees complained last year that a section of the policy was violated because scores carried over from the previous year were based on a different test than they were given and that they were not tested on every fire department apparatus, he said.

Some of the suggested alterations would clarify that pump and driving exercise will be the same only within a given year and remove a reference to testing on all fire apparatus, according to the ordinance.