CANDIDATES FORUMS

Inyo county sheriff

The Independence Civic Club is hosting a candidates forum for Inyo County sheriff.

The forum is scheduled to be held at the Legion Hall in Independence on Sept. 29 at 6:30 p.m.

Candidates Stephanie Rennie and Eric Pritchard will provide an opening statement and will respond to questions provided to them ahead of time. After a break, the moderator will ask questions generated from the audience.

The questions provided to the candidates are:

1. What will you do as sheriff to prepare deputies to interact with the mentally ill population?

2. With five sovereign tribes in Inyo County, how will you respect sovereignty and still assist with law enforcement? What will you do to strengthen the relationship between the tribes and the sheriff’s office? What opportunities can you identify to collaborate with tribes?

3. AB 109 provides funding for prisoner-oriented development programs, and the Community Corrections Partnership (CCP) Plan created by Inyo County provides guidelines for creating these programs. How will you implement meaningful programs in the jail? What programs do you see as a priority?

The Civic Club encourages the public to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

Bishop school board

The Bishop Sunrise Rotary Club is sponsoring a free public candidate forum for the Bishop Unified School District School Board race to be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct., 6 at the Cerro Coso Community College, Bishop campus. All nine candidates have been invited to be present and speak at the event.

For this forum, all candidates have been provided advance questions that they will answer during the first half of the program. After a brief intermission, the candidates will respond to questions generated by the audience. Light refreshments will be available. The Bishop Campus of the Cerro Coso Community College is located at 4090 W. Line St.

District 1 supervisor

The candidate forum for District 1 supervisor is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, at Cerro Coso Community College.

The two runoff candidates for District 1 are Trina Orrill and Jeff Gabriel.

District 1 includes the following communities and areas of North Bishop: Laws, Poleta, Rudolph Ranch, Meadow Farms, Meadow Creek, North Barlow, McLaren Ranch, Desiderata and Mustang Mesa.

District 3 supervisor

The candidates forum for District 3 supervisor, which the Sunrise Rotary Club is set to host, is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, at Cerro Coso Community College.

Two candidates, Kody Jaeger, assistant tribal administrator for the Bishop Paiute Tribe, and Scott E. Marcellin, local businessman, are running for this open seat.

District 3 includes the following communities and neighborhoods of West Bishop: Bishop Paiute Reservation, Early Pond, Sunrise, Sunset, South Barlow and the Manor Market area, except off Tumbleweed and the east end of Indian Creek from the Tumbleweed intersection.