Eastern officials will announce their final decision on changes to campus parking this week.

President Bill Perry said the announcement would be sent by e-mail to students, faculty and staff.

He said, as part of the planning process, student and employee concerns were taken into account about creating a new campus parking plan.

“Campus input has been helpful at all stages,” Perry said.

In August, the Council on University Planning and Budget issued a series of recommended changes to campus parking at Perry’s request.

Those plans were discussed in two series of campus forums.

Perry said those forums led to changes in the original proposals.

“As the process has moved forward from the original CUPB recommendations, there have been some changes (and) some recommendations have not been adopted,” Perry said. “If you compare the original recommendations with the most recent proposed actions, you will see the changes.”

Those changes include dropping special parking fees for commuter students, scrapping plans for salary-based staff parking fees and establishing a parking garage on campus.

CUPB will also discuss the administration’s final decision in detail at its December meeting, said CUPB chair Diane Jackman.

“Our next meeting is later this month and at that time we will have an update on campus parking,” Jackman said.

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