The Lampasas City Council on Monday approved the first reading of an ordinance to change school zone boundaries.

The speed limit from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on school days will be 20 miles per hour on Willis, Fourth and Sixth streets and Samac Lane in the block around Kline Whitis Elementary. The same speed limit will apply from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on school days in zones around the new Lampasas Middle School, as well as its former campus.

School zone boundaries at the new LMS and the former middle school will not change much, although the school zone at the new campus will be extended on Broad and Tenth streets.

If passed on second reading -- which will be held Jan. 25 -- the ordinance will remove a Key Avenue school zone by the former LMS. A school zone with a 30-mile-per-hour speed limit will be established, however, from Tenth Street to the city limits on U.S. Highway 281 south near the new Lampasas High School. Unlike the other school zones, the reduced speed in the U.S. 281 zone would apply only from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on school days. City Manager Michael Stoldt will ask county commissioners to extend the school zone from the city limits to the high school.

New state restrictions on cellular phone use in school zones will be enforced, Stoldt added.

The council voted 5-0, with council member Wanda Bierschwale absent, to approve the first reading of the school zone ordinance. Councilman Brad Neely abstained.

In other business, the City Council voted 6-0 to approve the placement of a second sign at the Yumm Factory Cafe.

Owner Sandra Julian hopes to install a 12-foot-by-six-foot fluorescent lighted sign atop a 20-foot-tall metal pole. To place that pole sign at her restaurant, however, she will have to lower an existing sign at the restaurant to a maximum height of six feet.

The city’s sign ordinance allows a only one pole sign per property. By lowering and repositioning her existing sign, the marker will meet the definition of a “monument” sign.

In another item, the City Council approved revised policies for the Lampasas Public Library. Changes include a lowering of the minimum age for library cards from 6 to 5 and a $10-per-hour fee for meetings held in the library after regular working hours.

Also Monday, the council:

• voted 6-0 to spend $54,914 on two 2010 Ford Crown Victoria police patrol cars and equipment for the vehicles. The council accepted a Hoffpauir Ford bid of $42,718 for the two cars and an equipment bid of $5,421 per vehicle from John Wright Associates of Arlington. Main Street Installers of Arlington submitted the winning bid for patrol car graphics kits.

• voted 6-0 to purchase new Lampasas Fire Department uniforms from Badger Tracks Customs for $5,931.

• OK’d the purchase of a Cisco T1 Internet router for $4,488 from Erie Computer Co. of Erie, Pa.

• voted 6-0 to set a monthly fee of $50 for storage units at the Lampasas Municipal Airport. The first reading of the ordinance passed with instruction for city staff to limit rentals to airport patrons.

• approved a letter of understanding to extend Kempner Water Supply Corp.’s use of 1.06 million gallons a day of Lampasas’ treatment capacity in the Central Texas Water Supply Corp. treatment plant. KWSC may use the plant capacity until July 1, when KWSC plans to begin operating its new water treatment facility.

• OK’d 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter routes on the west side of the city for the 10K March Against Hunger run/walk to be held March 6. The event, which will begin and end at Gavin Garrett Soccer Park, is sponsored by the city and the 89th Military Police Brigade.