The Mayor's seat and three other council members are up for re-election. These are the "Ward" seats where candidates compete within the ward they will represent. However, the whole city votes to elect one per ward.
Primary: Early voting for the Primary from Sept 18 - October 4th. Election day for the Primary is on October 7th.
General: Early voting for the General election is from October 16 - November 1st.
Election day for the General election is on November 3rd.
INC had a long standing tradition to hold candidate forums in the past. We are reviving that tradition this year. To help reduce the burden of forums on the candidates with lots of organizations, we are looking to partner with several organizations in Durham to hold a Candidate forum before the Primary on October 7th. The lead organizations are INC, the Coalition for Affordable Housing and Transit (CAHT), and Bike Durham. Also collaborating are Aging Well Durham, El Centro, Enlace Latino NC, and Sonos Durham.
FORUM DETAILS / DETALLES DEL FORO
Event dates: August 20th and 27th at 7pm
Introduction - not shown in recordings
On the 20th, In-Person venue was at Re-City (112 Broadway St). People attending: in person /on Zoom = 127
Ward 1 and 2 Candidate Forum recording
Video (English Only) / Vídeo (solo en inglés), Password / Contraseña: 1H#UyY%b
Spanish Audio / Audio en Español, Password / Contraseña: 1H#UyY%b
On the 27th, In-Person venue was at W.G. Pearson Center (600 E Umstead St). People attending: in person/on Zoom = 184
Ward 3 and Mayor Candidate Forum recording ***
Video (English Only) / Vídeo (solo en inglés), Password / Contraseña: q?EPt56s
Spanish Audio / Audio en Español, Password / Contraseña: q?EPt56s
***Please note: there was a malfunction of the camera at two times in this recording. We did not correct for it to be sure to have full transparency. These occur at approximately time stamps 0:45:01 to 0:49:02 and 1:12:45 to 1:14:16.
***Nota: La cámara falló en dos momentos de esta grabación. No lo corregimos para garantizar la transparencia total. Estos fallos ocurren aproximadamente entre las marcas de tiempo 0:45:01 y 0:49:02 y entre 1:12:45 y 1:14:16.
CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRE / CUESTIONARIO PARA CANDIDATOS
OVERVIEW:
To alleviate the burden on candidates to fill out questionnaires from every organization, we have collaborated with multiple organizations to cover the topics that cross different constituencies. Many of the questions pertained to all the organizations we collaborated with and you will see some that clearly address certain constituencies.
The structure of the Questions:
All Questions were framed by these categories:
Public Safety/Crime
Environmental issues
Infrastructure
Transit
Housing/Zoning/New Development
And Other
There were 3 types of questions:
Long Answer Questions - limited to 2,100 characters
Short Answer Questions: limited to 900characters
A rating matrix: a grid of questions by category
The document has multiple levels of collapsing content.
The the highest level, it is the Questions.
The next level is Race: Wards or Mayoral
The next is candidate responses.
To open or collapse the content, use the little arrow to the left of the top level to expand or collapse that section.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.
English Document/Documento en inglés
RESUMEN:
Para facilitar a los candidatos la tarea de completar los cuestionarios de cada organización, hemos colaborado con varias organizaciones para cubrir temas que abarcan diferentes sectores.
Estructura de las preguntas:
Muchas de las preguntas se referían a todas las organizaciones con las que colaboramos. Algunas se pueden ver en la estructura de las demás.
Todas las preguntas se estructuraron en las siguientes categorías:
Seguridad pública/Delincuencia
Problemas ambientales
Infraestructura
Tránsito
Vivienda/Zonificación/Nuevo desarrollo
Y otros
Había tres tipos de preguntas:
Preguntas de respuesta larga: limitadas a 2100 caracteres
Preguntas de respuesta corta: limitadas a 900 caracteres
Matriz de calificación: una cuadrícula de preguntas por categoría
El documento tiene varios niveles de contenido desplegable.
El nivel más alto es el de las preguntas (texto en cursiva).
El siguiente nivel es el de raza: distritos electorales o alcaldía (texto en negrita).
El siguiente nivel son las respuestas de los candidatos (texto verde).
Si tienes alguna pregunta o inquietud, contáctanos.
Spanish Translation of the document/Traducción del documento al español