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Committee clarifies oil-and-gas advisory membership; staff to send ordinance to council
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Summary
Staff proposed an amendment to clarify that industry and surface/property-owner members of the Oil and Gas Advisory Committee need not be Aurora residents; the advisory committee chair said members voted unanimously to support the change and the committee agreed to forward the ordinance to council.
Jeffrey Moore, manager of the city's Energy and Environment Division, asked the committee to approve a clarifying ordinance amendment for the Oil and Gas Advisory Committee that would explicitly state industry representatives and surface/property owners are not required to be Aurora residents.
Moore said the committee was established in 2015 and that the original ordinance text did not clearly reflect the intent to exempt industry and landowner representatives from the residency requirement that otherwise applies to volunteer boards. He said the proposed change simply makes explicit what the original intent was and ensures compliance with council resolution 2025-78.
"The industry representatives ... are not required to be residents of Aurora," Moore said, describing the limited textual changes.
Brad Pierce, chair of the Oil and Gas Advisory Committee, told the committee the advisory group reviewed the proposed edits and "voted unanimously to approve those changes," and staff indicated that the committee could move the clarification forward to a council meeting.
Committee members had no substantive objections and staff said they would forward the ordinance to full council for consideration.
Outcome: the committee agreed to forward the clarifying ordinance to city council for adoption.
