Several ordinances were on the table at the Sycamore City Council meeting Monday night.

The ordinance dealing with liquor sales beginning at 10 a.m. instead of 11 a.m. on Sundays was approved. The compliance officer from Jewel-Osco, Constance Zaio, requested to change the time of packaged liquor sales in Sycamore.

Ken Mundy, Sycamore mayor and liquor commissioner, said Zaio’s reason was due to Sunday being the week’s “biggest shopping day.”

Mundy said Sycamore has six packaged liquor license holders and the ordinance does not recommend or require the 10 a.m. sales at other locations.

“It merely changes the permissible or allowable hours of packaged sales to begin on 10 a.m. on Sunday instead of 11 a.m. on Sunday and go to the same ending hour of midnight on Monday morning,” Mundy said.

Another ordinance the council approved was the amended Water Fund budget due to a change in the operating system.

The council also discussed a consideration of installing secondary meters for residential yard irrigation without residents paying sewer fees.

Ebe Smith, assistant director of Public Works, said the Sycamore watertower holds about 750,000 gallons for residential use, while the secondary meters would use about 400,000 gallons.

“You could look at it as a conservation tool, and I understand about irrigation systems,” Smith said. “But that’s a lot of water being used.”

First Ward Alderman Rich Neubauer said that the council should not be encouraging residents to use a lot of water.

“One resident dumped almost a quarter of a million gallons of water on their lawn,” Neubauer said. “We should not be encouraging that sort of thing.”

Second Ward Alderman Chuck Stone agreed with Neubauer.

“In this time of greening and conservation saving, this is the wrong message to be sending,” Stone said.

The council motioned unanimously for a secondary meter to be a resident choice and for sewer fees to be included in the secondary meter cost.

City Manager Bill Nicklas said the Water Fund spending has increased because of a switch from a phone-operated to a signal-operated system. The proposition is not cheap, but more economical in the long run, and involves installing antennae at the well buildings and water division offices.

“We’re going to communicate any errors over a signal that could be picked up and then monitored by a revised data box,” Nicklas said.