Aurora’s latest clash over safety, surveillance, and spending is set to play out Monday, as the City Council weighs whether the Aurora Police Department’s Real Time Information Center should tap into Regional Transportation District camera feeds while also signing off on $420,000 in new golf equipment.
The move to let the Real Time Information Center, or RTIC, ingest RTD video has revived perennial questions in Aurora about how far the city should go in linking up cameras and data across agencies. At the same time, councilmembers are being asked to greenlight a six-figure purchase from the city’s Golf Fund to upgrade equipment at all five municipal courses.
According to the City of Aurora, the RTD camera proposal appears as an intergovernmental agreement under Item 2.f, while the golf-equipment financing is listed as Item 2.h. The agenda notes that the golf purchase would be paid out of the dedicated Golf Fund and used to replace equipment across the city’s five-course system…