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.
You can watch the forum below:
WATCH: Colorado Springs City Council Candidate Forum: District 4
The District 4 forum will include the following candidates:
- Kimberly Gold
- Sherrea Elliott-Sterling
- Chauncy Johnson
Jeannie Orozco-Lira was originally scheduled to attend, but will not be attending the forum.
ABOUT DISTRICT FOUR
Colorado Springs District 4 encompasses the southeast area of the city. This area also includes Peterson Air Force Base and the Colorado Springs Airport.
The entire district is east of I-25 and contains a large section of the following:
- East Marksheffel Road
- Astrozon Boulevard
- Airport Road
According to the previous redistricting report from November 2024, District 4 had a total population of 83,783. You can learn more about the candidates of each district here.
Here is the schedule and overview of the rest of the forum series:
- 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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