Forum to be held Tuesday at Madison Community Center

MADISON – A forum for candidates in the 2025 municipal election for the city of Madison on Aug. 26 will be held next week.

League of Women Voters of the Tennessee Valley; I Vote Madison; and Greater Huntsville Area Chapter or GHAC of 100 Black Women — are planning to conduct a candidate forum on Tuesday, Aug. 19. The event will now be held at the new Madison Community Center.

The center is located at 1329 Browns Ferry Road.

The forum will be held 5:30-7:30 p.m. Doors open at 5 p.m. Space is limited to the first 80 people, but I Vote Madison will record and livestream the forum for those who can’t attend in person. You can find more details about it on the “I Vote Madison” Facebook page.

Interested residents can help these groups create a list of questions for city council candidates running in the municipal election. To submit questions, visit Facebook/I Vote Madison, and click the link (seer page 2). Organizers will curate a list of questions from residents’ submissions and provide the questions to the candidates before the forum.

At the forum from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., candidates for mayor will speak to the audience. Following an intermission at 6:30 p.m., the candidates for city council seats will discuss their stands on issues from 6:45 to 8:30 p.m.

The upcoming election will decide a new mayor and representatives for city council in three contested seats. Districts 4, 6, and 7 will go to a vote on Aug. 26. They are:

District 4

Michael McKay Rachel Homolak

District 6

Scott Harbour Erica White Karen Denzine (incumbent)

District 7

Kenneth Jackson John Seifert (incumbent)