Business West, in cooperation other neighborhood and business organizations and Kansas City Kansas Community College, will sponsor candidates’ forums from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17, and Wednesday, Oct. 18, in the Upper Jewell building at the Community College.
The candidates running for Mayor, Sheriff, Unified Government Commissioner and the Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Public Utilities will appear Tuesday, Oct. 17. Candidates running for the Community College Board of Trustees and the Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Education will appear Wednesday, Oct. 18.
Candidates will present introductory remarks and then answer questions from a panel of neighborhood and business association executives and Mary Rupert, editor of Wyandotte Daily Online.
The forums will be taped and replayed on Channel 17, the community college’s public access channel on the Spectrum system.
The general election will be Tuesday, Nov. 7.