Contenders for Englewood municipal office and for school board can now take the next steps to be officially on the ballot by circulating the required nominating petitions.

Englewood voters will be asked to elect three residents to city council, one as a municipal judge and three residents to the school board.

While declared candidates cannot circulate nominating petitions, the field remains open and the only deadline to declare candidacy is the deadline for filing completed nominating petitions.

Nominating petitions became available in the city clerk’s office Aug. 4 for the candidates for city council and municipal judge. To get on the November ballot, an at-large candidate an individual must collect at least 50 signatures from Englewood residents who are registered voters. The same is true for municipal judge candidates. The candidates seeking to represent a district must collect signatures of registered Englewood voters who live in that district. The completed petitions must be returned to the clerk’s office not later than 5 p.m. Aug. 24.

The school superintendent’s administrative assistants had nominating petitions available on the morning of Aug. 5. School board candidates must collect the signatures of at least 50 Englewood residents who are registered voters to get on the November ballot. The completed petitions must be returned to the superintendent’s administrative assistant not later than 4 p.m. Aug. 28.

Two current council members, Wayne Oakley and Jim Woodward, have announced they will see another term. The third incumbent, John Moore, cannot seek re-election because of term limits.

However, residents have filed affidavits declaring candidacy so there are races for all the city council seats. Richard Gillit has announced he’ll oppose Oakley for the District 4 seat and Matthew Crabtree is challenging Woodward for the at-large post. A trio of residents, Jerry Furman, Doug Cohn and Linda Olson, have declared themselves candidates to replace Moore as District 2 council representative. Incumbent Vince Atencio has announced his intention to see reelection as municipal judge.

In the school board race, all three incumbents, Heather Hunt, Scott Gorsky and Michelle Gonzales, are all eligible to run for re-election but have not voiced a decision on the issue yet. The school superintendent has requested all three incumbents make their candidacy plans known at the Aug. 4 school board meeting. While several other residents have indicated interest, no one has officially declared candidacy so far.