The fall municipal election is just eight days away, and Juneau voters will get one of their last chances to hear from the candidates tonight.
All 10 candidates in the Oct. 3 election will be on stage and on the spot tonight in the final major candidate forum of the election cycle, hosted by Juneau Votes. The event, which takes place at the KTOO studio at 360 Egan Drive, will be moderated by reporters from the Empire and KTOO and is open to the public for free.
The three Board of Education candidates, vying for two open spots, will field questions from 5-6 p.m. It will be broadcast live on both the Empire and KTOO websites, as well as their Facebook pages, and it will air on KTOO radio (104.3 FM) at 7 p.m. The three candidates will have three minutes each for an opening statement and then a closing statement. During the question-and-answer section, the first person to answer the question will have two minutes to answer and the other two candidates will have one minute to answer. Audience members may submit questions on index cards that will be distributed.
All seven candidates for the three open Assembly seats will take the stage at 6:15 p.m. in a forum that runs for an hour. Due to time constraints, Assembly members will have 40 seconds to answer most questions and a minute to answer more in-depth questions. The final segment of the forum will feature questions from the audience.
The Assembly forum will air on KTOO radio at 8 p.m., and video of the event will be archived on both the Empire and KTOO websites and Facebook pages.
This will be the second free candidate forum of the election cycle, as the League of Women Voters hosted one on Thursday, Sept. 14. Conversation at that forum was audience-driven, and included topics such as homelessness, crime, the city’s budget, the school district’s financial challenges, specifics about high school curriculum and more.
