Today’s Charleston City Council meeting has a chance of mimicking the last meeting, which only lasted eight minutes.

Mayor John Inyart said the trend in the short meetings is not a permanent change.

“I’m not quite sure of the exact reason why the meetings have been so short,” Inyart said. “This may just mean that we have accomplished the projects we have set out to do in the correct time frames.”

The consent agenda contains five items, including a raffle license being applied for by the Elks Lodge #623.

The raffle tickets have been sold for a motorcycle give away and the proceeds will go toward the Corn Belt Shrine Club.

The lone item not listed on the consent agenda is a presentation by Joyce Madigan, who will give the annual city audit review.

Madigan is a member of the Charleston accounting firm, Gilbert, Metzger and Madigan.

“It is a regulation to have an outside accountant check the work of the city on all audit reports,” Inyart said. The report will last between 20 and 30 minutes.

Kayleigh Zyskowski can be reached at 581-7942 or at kzyskowski@eiu.edu.