The Elma City Council on Monday, Oct. 2, gave unanimous approval for the city to use excess library levy funds to pay for the carpet work scheduled at Elma Timberland Library that exceeds the original $15,000 grant amount.

Elma residents approved a $650,000 bond for the library in 1992 and Timberland Libraries gave a $75,000 grant for the project. That bond was fully paid off as of September 2012 and an excess of nearly $28,000 remained for allocation.

The library requested some $659 dollars be allocated to the carpet project from the leftover funds. The original grant from the Grays Harbor Community Foundation was for $15,000 which was matched by the city. The total cost of the carpeting project now is estimated at $30,659.

In other business, the council heard multiple petitions for rezoning and conditional use permits. Most were unanimously approved with the exception of a request for a rezone or a conditional use permit for Learning to Grow Child Care in Elma. That request will be sent to the hearing examiner.

Councilmen Jim Taylor and Pat Miller were absent.