On September 20, 2019, the Arvada Chamber of Commerce hosted a City Council Election Forum to hear from candidates for Arvada City Council and Mayor. Please find below more information on all the candidates, as well as a video of the event.
2019 City Council and Mayoral Candidates
Mayor
Marc Williams
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Current mayor of Arvada, first elected in 2011, and running for re-election this year after serving two terms as mayor. Williams also served three terms as a council member at-large, elected in 1999.
Dave Palm
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Small business owner in Arvada and serves on the Arvada Historical Society. Palm ran for the at-large seat in 2017.
Harriet Hall
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Acted as chief executive officer and president at the Jefferson Center for Mental Health for 34 years. She is a member of the Arvada Sustainability Advisory Committee and the Community Table Board of Directors.
City Council District 2
Ethan Lutz
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Arvada resident who currently works as a service leader at an oilfield service company.
T.O. Owens
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Acts as chairman of the city’s planning commission and served eight years on the Arvada Board of Adjustment.
Lauren Simpson
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Works as a foreign policy and diplomacy officer for the Canadian government and is president of the Jefferson County Young Democrats.
City Council District 4
David Jones
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Currently holds the district 4 position after his election in 2015. Jones serves on a number of city committees, including the Arvada Fire Protection District Coordinating Committee and Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority.
Jordan Hohenstein
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Lived in Arvada for nearly 30 years, volunteered with Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns and ran for Arvada’s at-large seat in 2017.
City Council At-large
Jeffrey Payne Cannon
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Previously served as the city’s planning commissioner and as a member of the Arvada Junior Chamber Foundation Board of Directors.
Robert “Bob” Fifer
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Running for a third term as a councilmember at-large, first elected in 2011. Fifer served as mayor pro tem from 2015 through 2017 and is a member of several committees, including the Adams County Economic Development Association and the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG).
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