Robin Sterkel, Urban Youth Ministry program coordinator at Wayside Cross Ministries, asks the Aurora City Council to reconsider their plans to not include the Ministry in their Quality of Life Grant Program Tuesday at the Aurora Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting in City Hall. She said the Ministry, which helps 300 of Aurora’s youth, has received $12,500 each of the last two years. Implemented in 2007, the 2020 Quality of Life Grants will provide funds totaling $898,000 for 32 agencies. The funds will be used to support two Aurora food pantries as well a regional food bank. Although a few senior programs are supported, the majority of agencies funded consist of educational and youth- serving organizations, including three Aurora-area museums. The Council agreed to hold the vote for two weeks to look into it. The Council is considering authorization for the director of purchasing to enter into a design services agreement in the amount of $1,825,000 with the team of Kluber, Inc. and Kueny Architects, LLC to design an approximately 195,000 square-foot consolidated public works facility near Liberty and New York Streets. Completion of design services should be in 2020 and construction of site work may begin in 2020 with final building construction to be completed in 2021. Jason Crane/The Voice
