Posing for photos at the Aurora City Council meeting Tuesday are members of the Aurora Puerto Rican Cultural Council for their 46th Annual Parade and Festival Saturday and Sunday. The parade will start at 11:30 a.m. Sunday in downtown Aurora.
•Approved was a resolution to appoint Raymond Hull to the Aurora Planning Commission.
•Approved was an ordinance in response to the Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act passed by the Illinois General Assembly June 1. The ordinance will attempt to help the City government regulate telecom companies when they install antenna equipment to transmit 5G wireless signals for next generation cell phones.
•Approved was a resolution to designate Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday as a paid holiday for City government employees. All City collective bargaining groups will have the additional designated holiday included as part of their respective bargaining agreements.
• Approved was a settlement agreement between the City government of Aurora and Fox Valley Hospitality, LLC and the acquisition of property at 2450 N. Farnsworth Avenue, commonly known as the Fox Valley Motel to resolve the City’s pending eminent domain litigation against the Fox Valley Motel and acquire it for roadway construction and economic development purposes.
•Approved was authorization to acquire real estate commonly known as the Liberty Street Property, 25.4 acres between New York Street and Liberty Street near Kautz Road, for subsequent use as a public works facility to build on to eventually replace three deteriorating properties the City’s Public Works is using.
•Sent back to the Planning and Development Committee for further review was an amendment to the City of Aurora Code of Ordinances Chapter 29 – Section 103, Entitled “Seasonal decorations”. The proposed amendment has two purposes: To give residents up to 90 days to take down seasonal decorations. The second is to allow commercial developments businesses, and business district parkways, to have white ambient lighting displayed year-round as long as the lighting is neutral and cannot be attributed to a seasonal event or holiday. Juany Garza, 2nd Ward, and Tina Bohman, 1st Ward, spoke against the 30 additional days for decoration displays. Jason Crane/The Voice