COLORADO SPRINGS — KOAA News5 and The Gazette are launching a series of forums to help show voters where the candidates running for seats on the Colorado Springs City Council stand on the city's biggest issues.
Our forums will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon leading up to the April Municipal Election. The forums, hosted by News5's Alasyn Zimmerman, will be streamed online at KOAA.com and the KOAA News5 App for mobile devices, Roku, FireTV, AppleTV, Android TV, or on this article below.
The second forum will be in a live interview format with candidate Tom Bailey. Candidate Frank Chrisinger will not be in attendance after not responding to our invitation to participate in the forum.
ABOUT DISTRICT TWO
Colorado Springs District Two encompasses the northernmost section of Colorado Springs. On the eastern side of I-25, the north end of District Two stops just shy of Glen Eagle Drive and the southern end runs parallel with E Woodmen Road.
District Two's population was 80,614 according to the previous redistricting count in November of 2024. You can learn more about the candidates in each district here.
Here is the schedule and overview of the rest of the forum series:
- Tuesday, Feb. 25 will cover the District 3 race between Brandy Williams, Maryah Lauer, Richard Gillit, Greg Thornton and Christopher Metzgar
- Thursday, Feb. 27 will cover the District 4 race between Kimberly Gold, Sherrea Elliott-Sterling, Chauncy Johnson and Jeannie Orozco-Lira
- Tuesday, March 4 will cover the District 5 race between Nancy Henjum, Cass Melin, Christopher Burns and Jim Miller
- Thursday, March 6 will cover the District 6 race between Aaron Schick, Roland Rainey Jr., and Parth Melpakam
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