Want to get involved? Speak at City Council Meetings

As you may know, we now have an online petition at https://www.change.org/petitions/aurora-colorado-city-council-allow-homeowners-to-keep-chickens that residents of Aurora are urged to sign. I also have a paper/ hard copy version to share with friends and neighbors who are not online here http://www.scribd.com/doc/160359637/Petition. We would like to get signatures completed to present to council by September 16.

Our next meeting will be Monday, September 16 at 6 pm at Crawford Community Center (school), 1600 Florence St, Aurora.Bring your paper petitions.

Meanwhile, consider going to an Aurora City Council Meeting, where you will have three minutes at the beginning of the meeting (after the pledge and such) to speak on anything you want to bring up, such as your wanting the council to change the chicken ordinance and allow us to keep well tended backyard hens. The meeting dates are:

August 12 and 26

September 9 and 30

October 14 and 28

Aurora Municipal Center, Council Chambers, First Floor, 7:30pm.  

You sign up to present, in order of who signed up, at about 7:45. You don't have to be a great speaker, just get your voice heard. 

We will present our petition with final signature count to City Council in September. We aren't sure yet when we will bring the ordinance up for an official vote - we'll know when, depending on how much support we are able to muster. 

Also consider coming to Sally's Ward I meeting on  September 10, 6-8 pm at MLK library, where the At Large members will be featured. I will ask them whether they support legalizing of chickens in Aurora, so we can see where they stand. 

Here is another thing you can do:

Email (or leave a phone message)

Access Aurora - 303.739.7000 or access@auroragov.org

• Use this method giving your name and address saying you would like your statement (about why you want chickens) to be emailed to the Mayor and the entire City Council.  Use your own words, be as succinct as you can, and ask for a reply from each council member.

After you have emailed Access Aurora, give the council members 48 hours to respond, and then call them.  Again, do not take up too much of their time, but ask them for their support for allowing hens in Aurora.  They probably will not commit their support until they see the wording of the ordinance, and maybe not even then.  What you can ask them is if they were on council at the last chicken vote and how they voted.  Clea and I need to receive feedback so please email us with your comments.   Thank you very much.

Ward I

Sally Mounier – 303.625.3648 or sallymounier@comcast.net

Ward II

Renie Peterson – 303.363.6791

Ward III

Marsha Berzins – 720.838.3762

Ward IV

Molly Markert – 303.752.2614 or 303.941.2244

Ward V

Bob Roth – 720.202.2695

Ward VI

Bob Broom – 303.589.5057 or 303.693.2733

Council Members At Large

Bob LeGare – 303.819.8617 or 303.366.0113

Barb Cleland – 303.929.9855

Brad Pierce – 303.241.5559

Debi Hunter-Holen – 720.229.9165

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When you contact them, or when you speak at a Council Meeting, could you please let me know? Either post a comment here with your statement, or send me an email, clea danaan at gmail dot com, no spaces etc. 

Here we go!! 

Petition to Aurora City Council, Upcoming Meetings

We have a petition! It took a bit because we wanted to make sure we were going about it the right way. We have an online petition and a paper petition. Please sign only one, but send people to sign one of them. They don't have to want chickens themselves, just be supportive of the idea. If someone likes fresh eggs, sustainable living, and the right to choose what reasonable pets a person can keep, they could be willing to sign the petition.

It asks for your address. We will not be tracking or bugging you, we just need to verify that you are an Aurora resident. We need all petitions signed by September 16th, 2013.

The link to the online petition is: http://www.change.org/petitions/aurora-colorado-city-council-to-allow-homeowners-to-keep-chickens 

The paper petition, which you can print out and share with your neighbors, is here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/160359637/Petition.

Sally Mounier has a Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday, Sept 10, to which chicken supporters are invited. These meetings will give us a chance to be heard, but also to determine who on council might be supportive, on the fence, or opposed to the changed chicken ordinance. Please join us at MLK library at 6 pm.

Finally, besides signing the petition, people can still call their city council representative. Most people don't know what ward they are in. To find out go here: http://apps.auroragov.org/Apps/Portal/Pages/government.cfm. Contact your ward representative and the At Large members, who represent the whole city.

Meeting for Chicks for Aurora!

Everyone interested in supporting legal backyard chickens in Aurora is invited to attend our next meeting, Thursday, June 13th, 2013, at 6pm at Crawford Community Center (school), 1600 Florence St.in Aurora. Hope you can join us! Spread the word!