AURORA | In addition to stealing cars, getting caught stealing more than $300 worth of merchandise from Aurora stores could soon equal a minimum jail sentence, under a proposal up for consideration by Aurora’s City Council Monday evening.
The proposal was not brought to study session, and no information was included in the council’s agenda packet about the proposal’s projected reach or its impact on the operations of the municipal court or the city’s jail, where the minimum three-day sentence would be served.
Danielle Jurinsky is sponsoring the bill. In June and July, she also voted in favor of fellow conservative Dustin Zvonek’s mandatory minimum sentencing rules for criminals convicted of motor vehicle theft.
The council is also scheduled to vote on a proposed campaign to post anti-panhandling signs around the city and educate residents about charities that help the homeless.
Last week, the proposal earned the tacit support of the council’s conservative majority as well as the suspicion of progressives, who questioned the lack of accompanying data and research. A new cost estimate from the city indicates the plan would cost $29,440 to implement, including the cost of posting signs at 16 busy intersections.
Council members will also vote for the first time on an ordinance that could allow ducks in residential areas where chickens are allowed currently.
The council meeting is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. It will be in-person and open to the public, and also streamed through the city’s YouTube channel and broadcast on local television channels 8 and 880.
She’s skipping the data, study, review stage because she knows that all the data, study, and review would prove that this is a very stupid idea. This shouldn’t be legal. One very stupid mean girl should not be able to ram through policy changes without following any kind of process simply because she throws the biggest temper tantrums. Our city is a joke because Danielle Jurinsky is a louder joke.
Dont worry Max. As promised, im outside waiting. Danielle may be a useless, blasphemous, worthless human being at this moment. But there is Hope for us all, even her. Maybe she’ll understand that tonight. Maybe not. But her repeated abuses of power will not be tolerated. Not by those who keep showing up to tell her and the others off to their faces.
Oops. Did I start another fight the Mayor had to get angry and stop the discussion on? Or maybe he was mad at how hard i was laughing at them as they argued. One bill died until later. The other was reveled as a useless attempt to boost their credibility. It will solve nothing, and become its own hazard as these signs are defaced and thrown into traffic. Mission accomplished. One of many. But that was just one battle. Every news article, every post, every meeting is another battle awaiting. For as long as this is all the Council will support, they will never get rid of that which haunts them. See you all next time, on Monday Night Omen.
Interesting concept. Wonder how it came up?