The Charleston City Council will vote Tuesday to place the city’s budget for the new fiscal year on file for public viewing.

Mayor John Inyart said while the council usually puts items on file for two weeks, they want to leave the budget up for a month.

“This doesn’t have to be approved until the last meeting of April,” he said. “We will leave it out there for people to see it for a month before we approve it.”

Inyart said copies of the budget will be available in the city hall, at the Charleston Carnegie Public Library and on the city’s website.

He said the $25-million, balanced budget will include minor street repairs and police car, ambulance and fire truck purchases.

The council will also vote on waiving the bidding process for a single-sourced company for in-car video system for police vehicles.

The equipment to be purchased is a Wi-Fi video transfer system and costs about $47,500.

“The way we’re going to have to have our (system) set up is when our police car either stops by the county or pulls into the police station parking lot, there’s an automatic upload of the video file,” Inyart said. “It won’t be a matter of, ‘Oh, I’ve got to run a cable out here and plug it in.’”

Inyart said the city has identified this company as a single-sourced company because of the city’s relationship with the county.

“The sheriff’s department has this same equipment,” he said. “We’re going to share the same computer space. We’re going to share some server space. We’re going to share some antennas.”

By sharing the same equipment, Inyart said the city will end up saving more money.

“By utilizing the system that the county already has in place, we’re going to save money,” he said. “That is what has prompted us to make this a single-sourced issue and waive the bidding requirements. It doesn’t mean we didn’t shop around; it doesn’t mean we didn’t make sure that this was of good value.”

The council will also vote on amending on ordinance to add a four-way stop at the intersection of Adams Avenue and 16th Street.

The ordinance amendment was put on file at the March 5 meeting for public inspection.

Inyart said the city has not received any comments, complaints or questions about the addition of the four-way stop.

Brad Townsend, a strategic and financial advisor at Ehlers, Inc., will provide a presentation of his final assessment of the city planning retreat in Fall 2012 at 6:45 p.m. in the council chambers at City Hall.

The regular city council meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Amanda Wilkinson can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].