A foundation has been set up to honor the memory of Scheketa Hart-Burns, the longtime 7th Ward Aurora City Council member who died earlier this year.
The Scheketa Hart-Burns Memorial Foundation will award scholarships to students, as well as help the kinds of not-for-profit organizations that the former City Council member championed throughout her life.Meanwhile, Mayor Richard Irvin said this week he will take another week to announce Hart-Burns’ successor as 7th Ward City Council member.
Barajas-Gonzalez owns and helps run two downtown businesses, Renew Salon and Aurora Tap House. She is an advocate at Mutual Ground. His intention is to make the appointment and have the City Council vote on it at a special council meeting after the regular Committee of the Whole meeting Sept. 5.The intent of those who set up the foundation, which includes her family, is to continue to support the Martin Luther King Back to School Bash run every August in Aurora. Hart-Burns ran the event for 35 years - even before she was a City Council member - and the city and volunteers ran it this year in her absence.
Clayton Muhammad, the city’s chief communications and equity officer, said many of the back to school resources were used up by other events, which are thrown by several other aldermen at this time of year, too.
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