City Council candidate forum tomorrow in Southwest Atlanta
August 31, 2009 at 1:35 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsNonprofit think tank Georgia STAND-UP will hold the first of two candidate forums for Atlanta City Hall hopefuls tomorrow in Southwest Atlanta.
The organization’s spent the better part of the year working with more than 160 neighborhood leaders to craft a “community issues platform” that covers such issues as public safety, affordable housing, transportation and economic development in Atlanta. Last month, 17 candidates — including mayoral hopefuls Kasim Reed and Mary Norwood — signed on to the platform. Other candidates will be asked to sign the community issues platform during the forum. (The platform’s too large to upload to the Web. If you’d like to take a gander, shoot me a line and I’ll email it to you.)
Tomorrow’s event, which is free and open to the public, focuses on all City Council At-Large posts and races in Districts 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 and 12. Another forum will be held on Oct. 1 for the mayoral and City Council president races.
The forum begins at 5:30 p.m. at the IBEW Auditorium on Pulliam Street. Click here for directions to the event.
August 31st, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Don’t forget to mention the mayoral forum on transportation being held downtown tomorrow evening (Tuesday the 1st) at 6:30pm. It’ll be a great chance to hear the candidates’ views on alternative modes of transportation (assuming they have one, of course, which is also important to determine). It’s sponsored by the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition, PEDS, and Citizens for Progressive Transit with Maria Saporta as moderator.
http://www.atlantabike.org/Forum
August 31st, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Haha. No worries, East Atlantan. I’ve got a post about that forum scheduled to publish within the hour. I’ll go ahead and post it.