A community-organized committee will host a forum for commissioner candidates next month, emphasizing future plans over past controversies.
The Edgewood CommQuest Committee will hold a “Meet the Candidates” meeting Oct. 19 at 2 p.m. at the Edgewood Community Center, according to Barbara Evans, who heads the ad-hoc committee.
The forum, titled “Charging into Edgewood’s Future,” will focus exclusively on candidates’ visions for the town, Evans said in a statement.
“We are excited about this opportunity to build relationships between Edgewood’s leaders and community members,” Evans wrote.
The committee is collecting questions from residents through social media platforms NextDoor and Facebook’s East Mountains 411 group. Topics will be shared with candidates in advance, Evans said.
Evans emphasized the forward-looking nature of the event. According to the invitation, anyone who “whines about issues from the past will be asked to leave.”
The community-sponsored event comes as residents felt previous town-sponsored candidate meetings had “a very limited, selective agenda of noncontroversial issues,” Evans said.
“We, the residents of Edgewood, are taking our town back,” Evans said.
Candidates can contact the committee at Comm_Quest@aol.com. The committee warned that candidates who fail to attend could miss an opportunity to build positive relationships with Edgewood residents.
