The Middlesboro City Council approved appointments to the Municipal Housing Board and the Planning and Zoning Board while tabling a vote on an updated Code of Ordinances at their regular meeting on Tuesday.

Eric Moberg’s appointment to the Municipal Housing Board was unanimously approved. During audience participation, Rommel Johnson pointed out that he is the husband of City Attorney Jessie Moberg and that should be made transparent.

The appointment of Zach Ausmus to the Planning and Zoning Board was also unanimously approved.

A vote on enacting the updated Code of Ordinances was tabled. Mayor Boone Bowling explained that the final copy of the new ordinance book was still being finalized.

“We need to wait just a few days until the final review comes out,” he said. “I’d like to ask for a motion to table that.”

The motion to table was made by Glynna Brown and seconded by Terry Poore.

Later in the meeting, Johnson asked for more information about the code of ordinances and why it was being updated.

Bowling said the city’s current ordinance book was published in 1987.

“This is an updated version of that and it helps to clean up any language and clarifies any ordinances that contradict themselves to clarify what the present day law is,” he said. “What we’re trying to do is get a baseline for the book, which is a 1400-page document. . . this takes the latest ordinances and makes sure that each sub-section is up to date for the current law.”

The council also approved a resolution verifying the roads in the city road system as requested by the Cumberland Valley Area Development District. The resolution includes an appendix A showing the mileage of each road within the city and an appendix B showing the mileage of roads that are not part of the road system. The city can only maintain roads that are part of the official city road system.

“They track all of our road systems and they just want to make sure we’re good on everything,” Bowling said. “Travis (Heck) has worked on that for six to eight months now and this list shows the highest degree of accuracy that we can do without getting a tape measure out.”

Johnson asked if any new roads had been added.

“There were some questions over the names of some of the alleyways, some have proper names but may have been listed as alley number 8, for instance,” he said. “Also with the road swaps we did with Balmoral and 15th Street, this makes it where they understand that for their documentation and it’s accurate. No new roads were added, that would be a whole different ballgame.”