WATCH at noon: Colorado Springs City Council candidate forum for District 5
KOAA News5 and The Gazette have launched a series of forums to help show voters where the candidates running for seats on the Colorado Springs City Council stand on the city’s biggest issues.
Today’s District 5 forum with Nancy Henjum, Cass Melin, Christopher Burns, Jim Miller will start a noon today. Watch it live below:
ABOUT DISTRICT FIVE
Colorado Springs City Council District 5 comprises much of the Old North End, north of downtown Colorado Springs. With it’s borders comprised of Austin Bluffs Parkway to the north. North Powers Boulevard to the east with the southern border of the district being comprises of East Platte Avenue and Uintah Street with I-25 to the west.
The district population as of the latest City Council District Plan from 2024, shows there to be an estimated 79,195 people within the borders.
The seat is currently held by Nancy Henjum who is one of two incumbents running for re-election across the entire City Council. Dave Donelson in District 1 is the other incumbent in this year’s election.
The forums, hosted by News5’s Alasyn Zimmerman,will also be streamed online at KOAA.com and the KOAA News5 App for mobile devices, Roku, FireTV, AppleTV, Android TV.
The last forum will be held Thursday, March 6 will cover the District 6 race between Aaron Schick, Roland Rainey Jr., and Parth Melpakam
Links to the previous forums can be found below: