{"id":1315677,"date":"2019-10-15T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/candidate-issue-forums-slated-later-this-month\/"},"modified":"2019-10-15T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T21:40:00","slug":"candidate-issue-forums-slated-later-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/candidate-issue-forums-slated-later-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidate, issue forums slated later this month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With fall elections upon us, the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association and the Roaring Fork Community Education Association have scheduled a pair of upcoming candidate and issue forums.<\/p>\n

First up will be the Issues and Answers Forum from 5:30 \u2013 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 at Glenwood Springs City Hall, presented by the Glenwood Chamber, the Glenwood Springs Post Independent, KMTS radio and State Farm Agent Jeff Leonard.<\/p>\n

The forum invites candidates for the Roaring Fork Schools Board of Education and the Colorado Mountain College Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n

Information about local and state ballot issues will also be shared, including the Garfield County Library District mill levy proposal (6A), Glenwood Springs tobacco products tax (2A), CMC District Salida-area annexation (7A), and state ballot Propositions CC (TABOR relief) and DD (sports betting).<\/p>\n

There will also be a forum inviting the candidates for the Roaring Fork District Board of Education prior to the regular school board meeting in Carbondale on Oct. 23.<\/p>\n

The school district and Roaring Fork Community Education Association are co-hosting the forum, from 5:30-7 p.m. at Bridges High School, 444 Weant Blvd. in Carbondale.<\/p>\n

The forum will be moderated by Cristal Logan from the Aspen Institute. The school board meeting will immediately follow at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

The following candidates have confirmed that they will participate in the forum:<\/p>\n

Natalie Torres (District B)<\/p>\n

Maureen Stepp (District C)<\/p>\n

Amy Connerton (District D)<\/p>\n

Shane Larson (District D)<\/p>\n

Jasmin Ramirez (District D)<\/p>\n

Two write-in candidates, Matthew Cova (District B) and Molly Peterson (District C), have said they will not participate in the forum, according to the organizers.<\/p>\n

The format is to include time for candidates to share information about themselves. There will also be questions about candidates\u2019 experience with collaborative problem-solving and working with groups and on topics related to public education and district priorities, according to a press release.<\/p>\n

The public can also suggest questions to be posed to candidates through a form available in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n

The forum will also be live-streamed at https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RoaringForkSchoolDistrict\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With fall elections upon us, the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association and the Roaring Fork Community Education Association have scheduled a pair of upcoming candidate and issue forums. First up will be the Issues and Answers Forum from 5:30 \u2013 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 at Glenwood Springs City Hall, presented by the Glenwood Chamber, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 18:34:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}