Shaping Our Parks, Enriching Our Community!

Naperville’s parks, recreation programs, and green spaces impact all of us—now it’s time to hear from the candidates who want to lead them!

Join us for our Naperville Park District Board Candidate Forum on March 12th at 7 p.m. You’ll learn about each candidate’s vision and answer questions from the community.* From maintaining open spaces to enhancing programs, this event will give you the insight you need to vote with confidence!

This event is free, but you must register at https://rebrand.ly/parkdistrict-forum.

Candidates Participating:

• Rhonda Ansier
• Aishwarya Balakrishna
• Natalia Dagenhart
• Zachary Jarrell
• Leslie Ruffing
• Alison Thompson

** All candidates have been invited **

If registration for the event exceeds the Zoom capacity, you can watch it live on our Facebook page. After the event, a video will be available on our YouTube channel.

How a Candidate Forum Works

All candidate forums are run by trained, nonpartisan, and out-of-district moderators. Candidates are given equal time to answer each question.

Each candidate will have two minutes to present an opening statement alphabetically.

Questions will be chosen in advance by the League for appropriateness and relevance from those solicited from League members and community members. Questions are not shared with the candidates before the forum.

The moderator will ask questions in rotation so that a different candidate will have the opportunity to be the first to answer. Candidates will each have up to two minutes to answer each question.

After the questions are completed, each candidate will have two minutes to provide a closing statement.

No surrogates are permitted to participate. An uncontested forum, that is, one with only one candidate, is not permitted.