GEPA School Board Candidate Forums

With the input from Sandie Warwick, the GEPA board has decided to look at having a candidate forum for each district. However, instead of a debate-style event, we envision more of a open house style event, with the candidates having a table / area to meet with constituents from their district to answer questions and discuss school board issues.

To pull this off, we need to request volunteer help to organize the forums in Districts 1, 4, and 5. We also need someone to assist with the forum for District 3. We anticipate that they should run for approximately 2-3 hours. The place/time/date of the event will be up to the volunteers to work out with the candidates, preferably at a location convenient to that district.

The volunteers will be responsible for the following:

-- contact the candidates and schedule a time/date for the forum.
-- select and reserve a space convenient for the district for the date/time of the forum.
-- notify GEPA on location, date, and time info so that we can advertise the event.
-- manage the forum (mainly ensure the candidates get set up, and the forum starts/ends on schedule).

If we can not get enough volunteers to pull off a forum in each district, we may look at combining districts or going to a single forum for all districts.

If you are interesting in volunteering to run a forum in your district, please email me directly (marcmaier@earthlink.net) by Monday Sept. 12. Please do not reply to this message, as it will bounce to the entire email list. If you have any questions about volunteering, please email me directly and I'll reply as soon as I can. I plan to create and provide a basic check list to each volunteer to try and make sure that each district forum can run as smoothly and uniformly as possible.



Thanks,

Marc Maier -- GEPA Chairman