ZELIENOPLE — The borough council Monday night approved funding to continue its detailed look at the borough’s multimillion dollar revitalization project.

The review, with the help of a consulting firm, is required by the state to ensure work done by the borough as part of its Main Street project will be covered by the grant.

Borough manager Don Pepe told council the $10,000 in additional funding is necessary to continue working with CT Consultants. The company and the borough have been checking line items in Phase I of the Main Street revitalization project, which includes buying and demolishing seven properties to build a parking lot.

By receiving the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Project grant, the borough is required to submit comprehensive plans on what the phase entails, Pepe said. The review includes detailing what construction there will be and exactly how much it will cost.

“We have the grant,” Pepe said, “but now we have to go through the process of proving all pieces of it to get the money.”

The plans for Phase I of the project associated with the $3 million matching grant are several hundred pages long, which the borough and its consultant need to review before submitting the expansive project to the state.

The project also will include the consolidating or elimination of overhead utility lines and poles on Main Street as well as a sidewalk improvement project.

In March, the borough agreed to buy seven properties as the site to build the parking lot. The lot, which is expected to have 159 to 170 spaces, will be at the corner of West New Castle and South Clay streets behind the Kaufman House.

The estimated cost of buying the properties is $884,000.

Council members on Monday also agreed to table a resolution to have CT Consultants begin exploring funding for Phase II of the Main Street project. Phase II, Pepe said, will likely include work “not touched in the first phase of the project,” though no specifics were mentioned.

Pepe said research needed to submit a grant application would cost about $45,000, compared to the $30,000 it cost for Phase I.

Council member Gregg Semel asked if there are other options available in terms of a consulting firm.

“I think we should at least consider saying no (at this time) and at least get a second opinion,” Semel said. “I don’t think there is anything wrong in seeking out another opinion.”