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On the City Council agenda next week: cleaning up downtown and handing over cash to businesses.

What: Greensboro City Council meeting.

When: 5:30 p.m. Tuesday

Where: Melvin Municipal Office Building, 300 W. Washington St., Greensboro.

Watch it: Time Warner Channel 13 or www.greensboro-nc.gov/citygovernment/council.

How to speak: Sign up before the meeting. Speakers have up to three minutes for items not on the agenda. The speakers-from-the-floor section is limited to 30 minutes.

On the agenda: City Council members will considering giving economic development incentives to three companies. Ameritox Ltd. is asking for $358,140 to improve an existing facility on either Gallimore Dairy Road or Creekridge Road. The company plans to created 228 new jobs.

-- The council will also consider giving a $1 million economic incentive grant for Pierre A and Carolyn E. Goria and Sears McConnell Properties LLC for sewer infrastructure and transportation improvements at the McConnell Center corporate park in east Greensboro. The improvements would get the site ready for businesses to use. The grant will be funded with voter-approved economic development bonds.

-- DDC Investments is asking the city to approved up to a $500,000 economic incentive grant for to improve infrastructure at 300 South Chimney Rock Road to make the site shovel-ready for an industrial facility. Bond money would fund the grant.

--City Council members will identify areas that are under consideration for future annexation by the city.

-- City Council will consider removing a noise ordinance exemption for the downtown area.

-- Council members will also consider banning panhandling within 20 feet of an ATM, any commercial establishment, private residence, an outdoor cafe or a parking lot, and while under the influence of an alcohol or an illegal substance.