Amador County – All seven candidates who have filed to run for three seats on the Amador Water Agency board of directors reportedly will attend a candidates’ forum Monday, October 11th at the Upcountry Veterans Hall.

The Upcountry Community Council organized the forum and has received commitments from all seven candidates.

District 1 candidates are incumbent President Bill Condrashoff and Paul Molinelli Senior. District 4 features incumbent Vice President Debbie Dunn and her opponent, Robert Manassero. Director Terence Moore is retiring from the District 5 seat, for which three candidates will compete. The candidates are John J. Asmus, Arthur Toy and Dale Turner.

The Upcountry Community Council AWA candidates’ forum will be moderated by either UCC Chair Lynn Morgan, or Vice Chair Sherry Curtis.

Morgan said the forum will give each candidate five minutes to introduce themselves and their platforms. They will then draw a question out of a “grab bag” and have three minutes to answer it.

Morgan said there will be seven questions in the bag, and each candidate answers a different question. Each candidate will then be given a five-minute time period to make a closing statement.

Morgan said “if there are issues that candidates want to rebut, the only time they will have to do that is in their five-minute closing statement.”

She said there will be time at the end, possibly only 20 minutes, for a question and answer session. People will be urged to be very concise and brief in their questions.

The forum will be limited to 120 minutes.

The UCC came up with the questions in a pretty informal way at its September UCC meeting. She said questions had to be relevant to agency business, and were modified to make them consistent and clear.

The forum is 6-8 pm on Monday, October 11th at the Veterans Memorial Hall on Buckhorn Ridge Road.

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