The city has a bunch of small road projects on the Wednesday city council agenda, in addition to the big-name freeway-building construction.

There’s a project to put a median in on Stockdale Highway from Chapala Drive to Renfro Road. It’ll cost $157,000, and Castle and Cooke will do the work with the city paying the company back.

Closer to downtown, the city will narrow the medians on Stockdale between Oak Street and Wetherley Drive, which is two blocks west of Oak. That will allow three lanes in both directions. A future project is planned to extend the three-lane-both-ways setup almost to California Avenue, where it currently goes from two lanes to three. The council is accepting the bid Wednesday.

And father afield, the council will be asked to adopt an interchange location for Highway 178 at Vineland Road. Currently, no interchange is planned there. The move would put a future interchange on the map, but with no date attached.

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The city council will also be asked to make a change to the city’s personnel policies.

Currently, new job postings can be limited to the employees of a certain department, division or even office. It’s a common practice in the city, but blew up last summer when the position of assistant to the city manager was created and opened only to people working in the city manager’s office. (City Manager Alan Tandy said he intended it to be the city manager’s department — which includes his office, IT, HR and the city clerk’s office — but the job notice said “office.”)

Under the proposed change, all postings would be citywide unless the Miscellaneous Civil Service Commission approves a narrower posting.

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As mentioned in the article, the council will also vote whether to adopt the Recreation and Parks Master Plan. You can have a gander at the document by clicking here.