MT. VERNON — WMIX/WDML brings you part 11 of a two-week series on the contested races for the school boards of Mt. Vernon City Schools District 80, Mt. Vernon Township High School District 201, and the Mt. Vernon City Council.

Today we have one of the candidates running for Mt. Vernon City Council, Mike McDonough.

A hot-button issue in Mt. Vernon is the East side railroad crossing.

McDonough says he thinks an engineering study would be the best first step in launching this project and answering some initial questions.

The other candidates running for Mt. Vernon City Council are Raymond Botch and Donte Moore.

You can listen to the full, archived, forum and hear from all the candidates with these three contested races via the link here:

https://soundcloud.com/wmixradio/2019-03-07-candidates-forum

See the Candidate Bio’s courtesy of the Greater Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce below: