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Aurora moves animal shelter plan forward; city staff to seek up to $27 million in COP financing
Summary
City staff presented plans for a new 38,000-square-foot animal shelter estimated at $51 million total and asked council to allow staff to market up to $27 million in certificates of participation (COPs); the project drew at least one council objection over competing public needs.
City staff told the Aurora City Council study session on June 9, 2025 that the city is preparing to finance a new animal shelter and asked authority to go to market with certificates of participation (COPs) for up to $27,000,000.
Jessica Prosser, director of Housing and Community Services, described a project intended to replace an aging, 1980s-era facility with “about a 38,000-square-foot new facility and housing for about 250 animals,” located on a roughly five-acre portion of a 15‑acre city parcel southeast of the current site. Prosser said the new design would separate court-hold animals from…
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