Township News
All Township offices will be closed on Monday, May 27th for Memorial Day. We will open for normal business hours on Tuesday the 28th.
A special Board Meeting has been called for Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at 10:30am to discuss personnel changes. The agenda for this meeting can be found here.
Summer's peeking around the corner, and Aurora Township is now accepting advanced applications for Summer seasonal employees. Both the application forms which can be submitted now for any job, positions when posted and instructions for submission, can be found here.
The current timeline for the Electrical Aggregation plan is now available. Residents in the unincorporated areas of Aurora Township interested in the Township's goverance plan for this program can read it online, and the Township Ordinance authorizing the Aggregation program can be found here. The current press release from our supplier can be found here.
Welcome to Aurora Township!
Aurora Township is one of 16 townships in Kane County, IL, and one of 1433 townships in the State of Illinois. All townships are mandated by state law to provide three basic services funded by local property tax dollars. These services are:
- General Assistance (local welfare) to qualified, low-income individuals for their basic needs. This program is administered through the Township Supervisor's office. Township caseworkers review eligibility criteria including financial and non-financial requirements. General assistance recipients must be residents of the township and citizens or legal residents of the U.S.
- Assessment of all real estate parcels within township boundaries for property tax purposes. The Township Assessor and staff of deputy assessors review and determine assessed valuations for over 39,000 residential, commercial, industrial and farm parcels within Aurora Township's boundaries.
- Maintenance of roads and bridges in the unincorporated areas of the township, including snowplowing, maintenance of pavements, drainage culverts, surface repair and road rebuilds for approximately 42 miles of roads and streets in the unincorporated areas of the township. The Township Highway Commissioner is in charge of this office, which is also known as the Aurora Township Road District or Highway Department.
Aurora Township goes beyond the minimum mandated services by providing senior and youth services for township residents. These include:
- Youth Services: We have a full time youth activity center with after-school programs, as well as summer programs. Our youth services staff also provides outreach and mentoring programs in the local grade schools, middle schools and high schools for youth.
- Senior Services: Aurora Township is a major provider of paratransit and transportation for senior and disabled citizens through its Ride-In-Kane program. Through a partnership with PACE, the suburban transit agency, the township provides over 30,000 rides per year, with a priority for medical appointments and dialysis, on 7 full-time routes operating PACE lift-equipped buses.
