An Aurora City Council committee is looking at tighter, more formal guidelines for aldermanic initiative funds, known commonly as ward funds.
The Rules, Administration and Procedures Committee on Tuesday saw a draft from the city’s Legal Department on an amendment to the city code that would formalize guidelines for spending the funds which are allocated to each City Council member each year. The City Council has been guided by an unofficial policy of how to spend the funds since 2015 that was based on practice done since the funds were started in 1997. Aurora Corporation Counsel Richard Veenstra.
The ordinance would create two pots of aldermanic fund money - capital funds, focused on infrastructure projects, which would be evenly split among all the ward aldermen, and non-capital funds, also evenly split among all the aldermen, with greater discretion but to serve a public purpose. Initial reaction among aldermen on the Rules, Administration and Procedures Committee was that the tighter, more elucidated guideline was needed, but should be done with caution.
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