Debate 1 · District 6
Megan Thomas Petty & Tom van Overbeek
Aired Sunday, September 20
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Six candidates.
Three debates.
Your questions.
Three seats on the Chico City Council are on the ballot this November. Before you vote, hear from the people running: we put each pair of candidates in a room for a full hour, hosted by Hayley Watts of Action News Now and Mike Wolcott of the Chico Enterprise-Record. All three are below in full.
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Each one is the full hour, as it aired on Action News Now. Not sure which race is yours? Find your district.
One debate per race
Districts 2, 4 and 6 are on the ballot. Each pair gets their own full hour, so you can hear the two people competing for your seat answer the same questions back to back.
Chico helped write the questions
Before filming, residents sent in questions and upvoted the ones their neighbors suggested. We handed the results to the hosts to help them pick the questions Chico most wanted answered.
Watch them here, any time
Each debate airs in full on Action News Now on a Sunday evening, and the video goes up here afterward: free, no login, watch whenever you want.
Council decides the things you actually notice — roads, rents, parks, the police budget, what happens downtown. Three of the seven seats making those calls are on this ballot. Most of us will vote on them knowing almost nothing about the people in them.
An hour each, on the record. That's what these are for.
Hosted by
Hayley Watts
News Director & Evening Anchor, Action News Now
Hayley studied journalism at Chico State and has covered the North State for Action News Now for years, anchoring the evening newscast and leading the newsroom.
Mike Wolcott
Editor, Chico Enterprise-Record
Mike edits the Chico Enterprise-Record and the Oroville Mercury-Register, and has spent his career reporting on and editing news across Butte County.
Closed Thursday, September 10
What Chico asked
Before the debates were filmed, we asked Chico what the candidates should answer. Residents sent in questions and upvoted the ones they most wanted to hear, and we handed the results to the hosts to help them pick the most relevant questions. This is the board as it stood when it closed.
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Questions and voting are closed
The debates have been filmed, so we're no longer taking new questions or upvotes. Thank you to everyone who weighed in. What's left is the part that's up to you: watching the debate for your district.
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