There are four candidates running for mayor in this years’s city election. Learn more about them here.

• Lawrence Martinez has worked as a hospice home care specialist and a business consultant. He also ran for mayor in 2015, getting less than 2 percent of the overall vote. Top priorities are providing job training for children, bringing manufacturing jobs to the city’s southeast side and bolstering the city’s nonprofit community to address homelessness.
• John Suthers, the incumbent, was elected in 2015. Suthers said he wants to hire more police officers, attract additional affordable housing and more aggressively enforce no camping bans.
• John Pitchford is an Army veteran who moved to Colorado Springs from Texas more than two years ago. Fairness has been the battle cry of his campaign alongside the complaint that too often developers appear to wield too much influence.
• Juliette Parker also moved to Colorado Springs about two years ago, but quickly threw herself into a position to advocate for more affordable housing and new approaches to addressing homelessness, including the installation of a tiny home village to offer them a path off the street.