(Correction: A Friday story incorrectly reported the city does not post its budget on the municipal website or it is not detectable by a technologically-challenged seeker. The first assertion is incorrect; the second applies in this instance…. City budgets are found in records posted through the mayor’s office. Mea culpa. – JB)

There is some irony in two items on this afternoon’s Alexandria City Council agenda.

One matter for consideration on this first official day of Spring is advertising for bids for “selective demolition and demolition of historic Bringhurst Field.”

More vestiges of the facility that hosted the boys of summer from spring training through playoffs in late summer for the larger part of the 20th century and the first decade of this one are coming down.

Downtown, the metamorphosis of a building that drew women looking for new bonnets and men for new boaters as Easter approached every Spring for decades continues.

The council is being asked to advertise for bids for former Weiss & Golding building selective demolition and exterior envelop protection measures.

W&G closed downtown about 30 years ago. The building was purchased at the turn of the century with the hope of refurbishing it and attracting office tenants. In 2017 it was donated to the city, which retains aspirations of turning it into a contributing asset.

The council will also consider a resolution to amend city ordinances to reapportion Districts 2, 3 and 4 on the basis of population data.

The council has five single-member districts and two at-large.