Council commentary

Larry Beer: "One of the things that occurred to me … is the responsibility of telling my constituents in ward 3 the way things really are in the city even if it isn’t necessarily what they’d like … It is absolutely true that every line in the city budget, every program that we operate, everything that we buy … has somebody … who is a passionate advocate for that one thing.

Every person who works for the city is delivering a service and everything that we spend money on has some community benefit.

For those of you who live in ward 3, I’ll commit to you that I’m going to be unsentimental about the way that we work through this process."

Bob FitzGerald: "I’m kind of blown away by the number of people here. It’s a great community outpouring.

We’d like for you to be creative in your thinking."

 (FitzGerald suggested a transportation tax and a security tax).

Ryan Frazier: "We pretty much have a case of our revenues are unable to keep up with our expenditures.

There’s a way that I’d like for you all to consider … It has everything to do with self service. The demand for services amongst the citizenry has not diminished … How can we provide more self service."

Steve Hogan: "We’ve been at these studies for literally years and this is really an opportunity to be as creative as you want to be. Those opportunitiess don’t come often, but it is an opportunity here in Aurora because you’ve got a city council that’s open to it and you’ve got a mayor that’s open to it and you’ve got an economic situation that virtually demands it."