The East Lansing City Council will hold its final formal meeting tonight before the Nov. 6 council elections.

The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall, 101 Linden St., in Courtroom 2.

While the agenda is light, the council will address an issue on the consent agenda to finalize a payment plan for the newly modernized traffic signals at the Saginaw Street and Abbott Road intersection.

The project would include a cost sharing agreement between the city of East Lansing and the Michigan Department of Transportation for costs not covered by the Federal Highway Fund.

City Manager Ted Staton said the actual construction work on the project was completed earlier this month.

“The project improved the timing of the lights,” Staton said. “Now they’ll be better synchronized with the other lights along Saginaw Highway, improving traffic conditions.”

A modernization of traffic signals is a standard periodic maintenance project and nothing out of the ordinary, MDOT spokeswoman Kari Debnar said.

“We do the same thing with traffic signs along Michigan’s highways,” she said.

“When the projects get under way they don’t impact traffic much and don’t take long to complete.”

An estimated cost for the new signals’ installation, engineering and administration is $37,175, but East Lansing and MDOT will split the $3,380 in engineering and administration costs. The city’s share of the project will be $1,690, according to a report from Peter Eberz, the city’s director of public works.

Any future maintenance needed on the signals would also be shared between the city and MDOT says the cost sharing agreement.

The council also plans to introduce several new ordinances for referral to various city boards and commissions for review and recommendation.

The current council will meet for the last time at its work session at 7 p.m. Oct. 23 in City Hall Conference Room A.

The new council, featuring at least one new face to replace Mayor Pro Tem Beth Schwarze, who will not seek re-election, will be seated Nov. 13.