The Charleston City Council will vote on an ordinance on Tuesday that will reduce the speed limit of Fourth Street to 20 mph.

Fourth Street recently received new fluorescent yellow pedestrian crossing markers and other equipment to control traffic, but Mayor John Inyart said the new ordinance came as a staff recommendation.

“It’s the result of several years with of discussion with my staff, and EIU representative, including Dr. Perry, where we were all looking for ways that would help improve pedestrian safety in and around campus,” Inyart said.

The city of Charleston will be a recipient of the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award from the Government Finance Officers Association.

“This achievement is based on our budget process meeting and or exceeding the guidelines set by his organization,” Inyart said. “It wouldn’t be possible without our Comptroller Heather Kuykendall.”

The City Council will also vote on a resolution for an agreement with Eastern regarding the Geographic Information System Support Services today.

The resolution is for a one-year agreement between the city of Charleston and Eastern that would allow Eastern to house the information for the Geographic Information System to use as a learning tool.

This would allow Charleston to gain the help of student interns.

Charleston will also pay a fee of around $6,250, Inyart said.

“Several years ago, when we were looking at purchasing some very expensive software to do this ourselves, we had contact with the folks at Eastern and determined through conversations that this would be better done working together,” Inyart said.

The City Council will also be accepting a bid from EJ Equipment for $59,250 for the purchase of a sewer camera.

The camera will be able to look into the city’s sewers without having to physically look into them, Inyart said.

“It’s very difficult to put a price on something like this because the alternative to having a tool like this would be to go out in the middle of the road, dig a hole and look at the problem,” Inyart said.

Inyart will also announce the new appointment of Sally Renaud to the Carnegie Library Board of Trustees.

Renaud is an associate professor of Journalism at Eastern.

Kathryn Richter can be reached at 581-2812 or kjrichter@eiu.edu.