Grant Park Chamber of Commerce Meet the Canidates Night March 25, 2021 6pm
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Meet the Candidates Night
March 25, 2021 at 6:00 PM
The Grant Park Chamber of Commerce has held “Meet the Candidates Night” for many years in the March before Consolidated Elections in April. Candidates introduced at those meetings have been vying for positions on the governing boards of Chamber Members such as the Village of Grant Park, the Grant Park Library, and Community Unit School District #6 (The Grant Park School District).
These meetings have been held at Hamann Center. The candidates for these boards would be introduced and given a few minutes to comment if they wished. Candidates running for positions that had multiple contestants would have a series of questions posed by the Chamber for them to answer. Each responder would have up to three minutes to answer.
Because of COVID concerns this type of in person meeting is not going to be held. However, Zoom meetings have been very successful over this past year and the Chamber is offering this opportunity for 2021. The plan is to make the Zoom link available to the Village of Grant Park at large as the Village and Library positions are only available for registered voters that live within the boundaries of the Village. This link will be posted on the www.grantparkchamber.org website. You may also request a link directly from grantparkchamber@gmail.com and a copy of the invitation with the link will be emailed to you. The School District, of course, serves a much wider area. The Zoom meeting would open for connections at approximately 5:45 PM. Audio for attendees would be muted when entering the meeting, video is up to the virtual attendee, and a limit of 100 connections is imposed by Zoom. The Chamber moderator will have introductory comments and will attempt to introduce all candidates who are virtually present. The moderator would ask the candidates who are running for contested positions a series of questions and they would have three minutes to respond to each. After five to eight of the Chamber posed questions, the moderator would review any questions that attendees have submitted to them via chat and select ones to ask the candidates. Again, the contestants would have up to three minutes to respond.
This meeting is planned to last no longer than one hour and may end earlier than that depending on how it evolves. The Chamber of Commerce does not endorse candidates but encourages all registered voters to take part in the election which will be held at the Community Building on April 6th for voters who live in Yellowhead #1 & #2 precincts.
