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Futuro RGV will be livestreaming a mayoral forum Tuesday for the candidates running for the city of Mission’s top seat on the council.
The forum is scheduled from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday. It will be held at The Monitor but will only be viewed via Futuro RGV’s Facebook page. Monitor metro editor Naxiely Lopez-Puente will be moderating the forum.
Mission Mayor Armando O’Caña is running for reelection and faces fellow councilmember Norie Gonzalez Garza, who outgained the incumbent in votes for the May 7 city election.
Gonzalez Garza received the largest number of votes in a field of four candidates, with 37% to the second-highest which was O’Caña’s 33%. There were 245 votes that separated the two, with Gonzalez Garza taking 2,786 to O’Caña’s 2,541.
Although both candidates were the top two vote-getters, they are now facing a runoff election due to neither candidate receiving 50% of the vote plus one.
A four-term councilmember, Gonzalez Garza, 62, has said that if elected mayor she’d focus on improvements to the city’s infrastructure, such as local parks and drainage issues.
O’Caña, 68, plans on seeing through a number of projects he says he’s started over the last four years, and like his opponent prioritized drainage but also public safety and economic development.
Early voting for the runoff is scheduled from May 31 to June 7. The runoff election is set for Saturday, June 11.
