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Riverside Municipal Election. Brookfield Municipal Election.

Riverside Municipal Election

Because there are candidates for both village president and trustee, the forum will be set up in the following way:
6:45 p.m. - 7 p.m.: an opportunity to meet candidates individually
7 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.: presidential candidate forum
7:35 p.m. - 8:20 p.m.: trustee candidate forum
It is our desire to allow voters an opportunity to meet and hear the candidates and their stands on current issues facing the community. To that end, we have developed the following procedures.
A member of the League of Women Voters will moderate the forum. Candidates will draw for the order of opening statements. The order will be changed for questions and closing statements.
Each candidate will have two minutes to make an opening statement, which should include his or her qualifications. We will then ask questions submitted by citizens of the community. The presidential candidates will have one minute to respond to a particular question and then each will have 45 seconds to rebut or respond to his opponent's answer.
During the trustees' forum, all seven candidates will have 30 seconds to answer every question. The moderator will announce the order of who is to respond to questions for trustees.
Candidates may make a closing statement of one minute.
Each presidential candidate and each trustee candidate will have two minutes to make an opening statement, which should include his or her qualifications. We will then ask questions submitted by citizens of the community. The presidential candidates will have one minute to respond to a particular question and then each will have 45 seconds to rebut or respond to his opponent's answer.
During the trustees' forum, there will be eight questions with three candidates each having one minute to answer each question. The respondents for each question will be announced by the moderator and will include two candidates from one party and one from the other. Each candidate will have the opportunity to answer the same number of questions.
Candidates may make a closing statement of one minute.

Brookfield Municipal Election

Because there are candidates for both village president and trustee, the forum will be set up in the following way:
6:45 p.m. - 7 p.m.: an opportunity to meet candidates individually
7 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.: presidential candidate forum
7:35 p.m. - 8:20 p.m.: trustee candidate forum
It is our desire to allow voters an opportunity to meet and hear the candidates and their stands on current issues facing the community. To that end, we have developed the following procedures.
A member of the League of Women Voters will moderate the forum. Candidates will draw for the order of opening statements. The order will be changed for questions and closing statements.
Each presidential candidate and each trustee candidate will have two minutes to make an opening statement, which should include his or her qualifications. We will then ask questions submitted by citizens of the community. The presidential candidates will have one minute to respond to a particular question and then each will have 45 seconds to rebut or respond to his opponent's answer.
During the trustees' forum, there will be eight questions with three candidates each having one minute to answer each question. The respondents for each question will be announced by the moderator and will include two candidates from one party and one from the other. Each candidate will have the opportunity to answer the same number of questions.
Candidates may make a closing statement of one minute.

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