(MT. VERNON, IL) — Mt. Vernon City Council is set to meet this evening. Among items on the agenda, the council will hear from the City Manager in permission requests to seek bids for an outdoor chemical storage building, to seek bids for fireworks for the Annual 4th of July Salute to Freedom Celebration, to waive bidding procedures to install cured in place piping of a sewer line, and a presentation of capital projects. The council will also hear a first reading from the City Attorney of an ordinance annexing real estate to the city of Mt. Vernon located adjacent to the new industrial park. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Rolland W. Lewis Community Building.