In Monday night’s Aurora City Council study session and regular meeting, councilmembers will discuss a memorandum of understanding between the police and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center, which would clarify the relationship between the two parties.

Councilmembers will also vote on water restrictions and a 72-hour notice requirement for homeless camp sweeps, and hear updates on a project to build a new animal shelter.

A memorandum of understanding between the APD and ICE processing center is on Monday night’s study session agenda for council approval.

It’s intended to establish a framework for cooperation between the APD and the processing center, outlining guidelines for law enforcement responses to the detention facility, according to council documents. It clarifies the relationship between ICE and the APD.

Also at the study session, councilmembers will decide whether or not to move forward with enacting Stage I Water Shortage restrictions.

In a Water Policy Committee meeting Wednesday, Aurora Water officials recommended the City Council approve declaring a shortage, which would implement certain water-saving measures, including a two-day per week watering limitation.

If the council approves the declaration, it will move forward to a formal vote on April 6 and, if passed, go into effect April 7.

“Our water supply situation is actually bleak enough that, if things don’t improve and we don’t get the community response that we need during a Stage I restriction, the forecasts indicate that we may be in a Stage II restriction by the end of the year, which would be really dramatic,” Water Engineer John Murphy told councilmembers Wednesday. “None of us wants to go there.”

Councilmembers will also hear an update on Aurora’s new planned animal shelter at Monday’s study session.

Talk of the need for a new shelter has been ongoing for years, and construction on the new facility, at East 32nd Street and Chambers Road just southeast of the current facility, is anticipated to begin this year.

According to council documents, the shelter will open to the public in 2028.

In Monday night’s regular City Council meeting, councilmembers will vote on a resolution outlining annual reporting requirements for the recently adopted Tobacco, Kratom, and Age-Restricted Hemp Retail Licensing Ordinance.

The resolution was delayed at the last council meeting due to several councilmembers requesting more information on it before voting to pass it.

Councilmembers will also cast a formal vote on a resolution from Councilmember Rob Andrews that would require a 72-hour homeless encampment sweep notice.

The resolution was approved to move forward in a recent study session, during which several of the council’s conservative members called it a “slow repeal” of camping laws put in place by the previous council.

In February 2025, Aurora lawmakers got rid of requirements to provide shelter options and a 72-hour notice before sweeps.

The 2025 decision followed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the Eighth Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment clause does not prohibit the enforcement of a rule prohibiting camping on public property, according to the language of the ordinance.

Councilmember Andrews’ resolution would add the notice back. However, the notice is already a practice for homeless abatement officials, City Manager Jason Batchelor said. The resolution would simply inform people of that practice.

If the encampment presents an imminent public health or safety risk or is on CDOT property, the notice is not required, according to the proposed resolution.

Essentially, the resolution would not change Aurora’s homelessness laws.

Monday’s study session starts at 3:45 p.m. and the regular meeting will follow at 6 p.m. The regular meeting will take place in the Paul Tauer Aurora City Council Chamber, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, and the study session will be livestreamed in the chamber.

Both meetings are available to watch online at AuroraTV.org and YouTube.com/TheAuroraChannel and on cable channels eight and 880 in Aurora.

The full meeting agenda is available on the city’s website.