A lease and operator agreement for Aurora’s homeless navigation campus will go to a vote in Monday night’s city council meeting.

If approved, a Denver-based nonprofit will be appointed as the lease holder and operator for the campus, which is intended to be a “one-stop shop” for the city’s homeless services.

In early July, city staff sent out a request for proposals to nonprofit agencies, seeking an operator for the campus. The city received three proposals from Salvation Army, Comitis and Advance, Inc.

After reviewing the submissions, city staff recommended Advance, Inc., according to council documents.

The lease term is three years initially, with the option to extend for up to 10 years in two-year increments.

Also on Monday night, councilmembers will vote on a resolution on the rules of public comment.

If approved, the resolution, sponsored by Councilmember Curtis Gardner, would get rid of the ability for people to call in to speak, limiting public comment only to in-person speakers.

The resolution also adds that “whenever feasible,” people addressing the same topic are “encouraged” to coordinate and designate one speaker to present the group’s views, according to council documents.

It also clarifies that interested speakers have to sign up in-person with the clerk no earlier than 5 p.m. and no later than 6:20 p.m. on the day they wish to be heard. Speakers must sign up with their first and last names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. At the podium, they “shall state their true name and whether or not they are an Aurora resident,” the resolution says.

For those who want to speak on agenda items, the resolution says people have to sign up online by 1 p.m. on the day of the meeting. Public comment on agenda items is limited to 30 minutes, the resolution adds.

This comes after a meeting in early September, during which a call-in speaker, who city officials said called in from California, used derogatory slurs against people of color, members of the LGBTQ community and Jewish people.

Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky told The Denver Gazette last week that the current system allows for situations like the one that occurred at that meeting.

“We have created such a system where people can call in from all over the country, quite frankly from all over the world,” she said. “It’s a shame that our public invited to be heard platform has been hijacked by people that do not live in Aurora.”

She said there were proposals for changes to that system coming down the pipe.

Also on Monday, Councilmember Stephanie Hancock will bring forward a proposed ordinance that facilitates the removal of lost, stolen and abandoned shopping carts found away from the stores they belong to.

The ordinance states that shopping carts that have been abandoned or stolen create “a visual blight” and are “aesthetically detrimental to the community.”

If the ordinance passes, shopping carts “readily identified as once belonging to a retail establishment … shall be seized.”

Additionally, Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky will bring forward a proposed ordinance stating that the public cannot be denied access to the Aurora Reservoir for any special event.

The ordinance says the reservoir “shall not be available for rent or use for a special event or private event unless public access is still maintained.”