Unalaska’s city council will hold an early meeting tonight -- possibly, one of its last.

The council will consider moving its regular meeting time to 6 p.m, as part of a lengthy agenda. It includes several housekeeping tasks, like reviewing proposed language changes in city code and in Unalaska’s municipal fee schedule.

The Department of Public Utilities is suggesting that fee schedule require new utility customers to install water meters. The department’s been looking for ways to cut down on unaccounted water use in the city’s system. Up to 16 percent of the water that’s produced each month is being lost, according utilities director Dan Winters, and unmetered systems are a culprit.

The Department of Public Safety is also requesting a new language to add a fee for parking violations. They recently purchased a tire boot. The department suggests a $40 charge to get the boot removed.

Council is expected to firm up the city’s finances for 2015, when the new operating and capital budget comes up for a public hearing and final vote.

Unalaska’s community schools agreement, which allows the city to cover 40 percent of the schools’ annual operating and maintenance costs outside the state’s funding cap, is also up for consideration. The school district is requesting $707,808 in support going into next year -- a slight decrease.

Unalaska’s lobbyists at the state and federal level are seeking new contracts worth $155,000 -- plus reasonable expenses -- for the upcoming year, but no raises. Council will look at its contracts with Ray Gillespie, the state lobbyist, and federal lobbyist Brad Gilman, when they take up their consent agenda.

Council will also look at a resolution to hire Northern Economics for $40,000, so they can craft the city’s response to a feasibility study on building a deep-draft port in the Arctic. In his report to council, city manager Chris Hladick says the intent is to "[include] the Port of Dutch Harbor with its existing infrastructure and to identify our port as an Arctic port for future development."

Council will end their meeting with an executive session on negotiations with the Inlandboatmens Union.