Eastern students, faculty and staff will have two chances to air their views on proposed campus parking changes at a series of forums this week.

President Bill Perry announced two parking forums by e-mail Sept. 15 encouraging feedback on several recommendations from the Council on University Planning and Budgets.

“You are invited to two public forums . to allow comment from faculty, staff and students,” Perry wrote.

The first forum is today at 1 p.m. in Buzzard Hall 1501. The second forum is at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Physical Science Building room 2120. CUPB Chair Pat Fewell will moderate both forums.

Perry also encouraged those interested to e-mail comments to univplan@eiu.edu.

The parking changes recommended by CUPB include a parking garage funded by student fees.

“Individuals do support a parking structure on campus,” according to a CUPB memo, “but are willing to pay from $100 to $150 additional for the structure.”

The recommendations also call for gradually raising parking fees.

“Parking fees should be increased across the board, but an incremental increase is recommended,” the memo said.

According to Perry’s e-mail, feedback from this week’s forums will be used to set new proposals, which will be released in October.

Perry and Fewell could not be reached for comment.

Joe Astrouski can be reached at 581-7942 or at jmastrouski@eiu.edu.