Early voting runs March 9-16 at five locations around town. Election Day is March 19.

The candidate forums are over, and now Gainesville voters will hit the polls, beginning Saturday, to select their favorite candidates the City Commission.

Early voting kicks off Saturday and will run from March 9-16 at five locations across town. Election Day is March 19, when voters will go to their usual polling places.

Registered voters will have the opportunity to select Gainesville’s next mayor and a commissioner for District 4 and to decide whether to create an 11-member Charter Review Commission.

For mayor, incumbent Lauren Poe faces challengers Jenn Powell, Jennifer Reid and Marlon Bruce. District 4 candidates are Commissioner Adrian Hayes-Santos and challenger Robert Mounts.

Poe has raised the most money of all candidates with $21,431, including donations from five sitting city commissioners, school board members and county commissioners. The next closest mayoral candidate is Jenn Powell, with $5,428.

The mayor's salary is $41,656.42. For information about each mayoral candidate and their platforms, visit bit.ly/2UxQDc9.

Hayes-Santos leads his opponent in donations with nearly $13,700 raised as of Thursday, some of which also come from sitting school board members and city and county commissioners. Mounts has raised $7,735, contributing more than $3,000 to his own campaign. He also received an endorsement and donation from State Attorney Bill Cervone.

The salary for a commissioner is $32,730. For information about each District 4 candidate and their platforms, visit bit.ly/2HnscdG.

Only people living within the city limits can vote in the election. Only those who live in District 4 can vote in that race.

Voters will also decide on a proposed Gainesville Charter Review Commission, which is modeled after the Alachua County review board.

The 11-member board would host public meetings and propose changes to the structure of city government every 10 years, such as how many commissioners are on the City Commission and whether to have a weak or strong mayor system. Voters would then decide on those changes during a November election.

Board members would be appointed by commissioners in office more than a year before an upcoming election.

Polls for the 2019 city election will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sunday, Monday Wednesday and Friday. Polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday.

Polling locations for early voting are the Alachua County Supervisor of Elections Office, Millhopper Library, Senior Recreation Center, J. Wayne Reitz Union and the Martin Luther King Jr. Center. For more information, visit votealachua.com.