Aurora Connect brings city news to your mailbox and your inbox, and gives every resident a simple way to share a story, an event, or a photo for an upcoming issue. One place to stay in the loop, and to help fill it.
The same page does both jobs. Get the newsletter the way you prefer, or share what is happening in your corner of Aurora.
Email arrives monthly. The print edition comes every two months with your utility bill. Choose either, or both.
Give us the story and the photos, and pick the issue it should run in. Submissions go to the newsletter editor and city staff for review before publishing.
It starts as the newsletter you already know. The same hub can grow into the way the whole city and community stay in touch, without depending on any one volunteer.
Sent monthly to subscribers from the city's own authenticated address, assembled from the same content with no separate rebuild.
Reaches every household with the bi-monthly utility bill, kept because residents told the city they rely on it, and produced without Microsoft Publisher.
Subscribe, submit stories, and receive the newsletter by email and print. This page is the working start.
Designated city staff can maintain the subscriber list and send an alert directly, so reaching residents never depends on one person.
Event sign-ups, project input, and resident feedback, the way larger cities do it, when the community is ready.
Cities across Oregon and the country run community engagement and notification platforms to do what Aurora Connect does: subscriptions, resident submissions, surveys, and alerts. A few of the common vendors:
Published pricing generally runs from about $10,000 a year for a small city into the low six figures for larger agencies.
For example, Granicus's community engagement product has been listed in the range of roughly $12,000 to $20,000 a year for a city of Aurora's size. Most vendors quote by population and by the modules a city turns on.
Aurora Connect provides that same core capability today. The domain, the email platform, and the development have been provided as a volunteer contribution, and it is built to be handed to the city and to outlast any one person's involvement.