LEWISTON — It’s an even six candidates on each side of the Androscoggin River for June’s Charter Commission ballots.

Six candidates collected enough signed petitions to win spots on Lewiston’s ballot. The deadline to qualify for a spot on the ballot was Friday.

They are: Chantel Pettengill, 200 Montello St.; Charles A. Soule, 135 Bartlett St.; David Chittim, 28 No Name Pond Road; Eugene Geiger, 22 Robitaille Circle; Lucien B. Gosselin, 625 College St.; and Richard Grandmaison, 51 Jean St.

The deadline to secure a spot on the Auburn ballot was March 27, and six candidates qualified there as well.

They are: Alfreda Fournier, 43 Davis Ave.; Charles Morrison, 46 Lake St.; Holly Lasagna, 220 West Auburn Road; John Spruill Jr., 10 Aron Drive; Michael Beaulieu, 27 Sherman Ave.; and Verne Paradie Jr., 100 Hillside Ave.

Voters will go to the polls June 10 to select the charter commission. Each city will select three candidates who will begin working together to craft a founding document uniting the two cities, choosing a name for the new city, listing each community’s debts and assets, a name and location for city offices, rules of government and rules for the transition.

Once that work is done, it would go to voters for public review and debate. It has to be approved by voters in both cities before it can become law, and that election likely won’t happen until November 2015.

There is no time limit to the work. The commission can take as long as it needs to draft the new charter.

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