The Walnut City Council is expected to discuss and act on approving, Thursday, the first reading of an ordinance amending the speed limit on Highway 83, within the Walnut City limits. City Clerk Terri Abel says the Iowa Department of Transportation conducted a Speed Study. The study resulted in a recommendation of reducing the speed along Highway 83, and the Council has agreed with the recommendation. Following the first reading of the amended ordinance, the Council may decide to waive the second and third- readings of it, and move to adopt the recommendation.

In other business, the Council is expected to adopt a resolution pertaining to an updated Walnut Municipal Utilities’ Identity Theft Prevention Program, which Abel says must be reviewed and updated every year, in order to prove social security numbers and other vital information is secure. They’re also expected to set Halloween as the date for Trick or Treating, in Walnut.

The meeting at the Walnut City Hall begins at 5-p.m., Thursday.