TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Regional meetings - one in Westport
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meet
Sec'y of the State Denise Merrill!
Westonites and leaguers especially invited
Jan. 24, 2012, 1:30-3pm, Westport Library
Join us for a presentation on bringing Connecticut’s
elections into the 21st century, improving technology
and efficiency, and cutting costs for towns across the state.
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LWV of Greenwich program -
YouTubed: http://www.lwvg.org/
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Special Master for reapportionment
- story almost over, here.
ATBM
focus at Special
Meeting Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, 7:30pm, Town
Hall!
CHARTER
REVISION COMMISSION PAGE: Interviews continued after Public
Hearings. Recent
meeting reviewed how the Charter changed through the years since the
first one in 1967.
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WITT
link; "Forum on Demand" story
here.
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FALL
CONFERENCE 2011 picture story...
CABLEVISION
supported this event, came with reporter.
Quick link
to complete video.
Keynote speaker
CT
Commissioner of Economic and Community Development Catherine Smith with
new slides and a
spectacular and inspiring presentation of where Connecticut is and
where we have to go - and how!
Panel
Christopher Bruhl, President, Business Council of Fairfield County
Joseph Carbone, President and CEO of The WorkPlace
Hon. Martin Looney, CT State Senator, Majority Leader and Co-Chair of
Jobs Growth Roundtable
Michael Meotti, Executive VP for the Board of Regents for Higher
Education
Moderator
Kay Maxwell, former President, LWVUS
Co-Sponsored by the UCONN West Hartford campus School of Social Work
This is not the first Fall Conference on a related subject - link here to Fairfield
League's report from 1999
LWV of Weston videotaped this event.
Copies available soon;
online version link below..
2 hours 32 minutes
Best viewed with
Internet Explorer, which will automatically open Windows Media Player
and
begin playback without waiting for the large download to
complete.
For Cable and DSL users:
http://www.lwvweston.org/LWVCT12-3-11CableVersion.wmv
(381 Megabytes)
For Dial-up Modem users: http://www.lwvweston.org/LWVCT12-3-11ModemVersion.wmv
(58 Megabytes)
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2011 VOTER SERVICE
- LOCAL ELECTION REPORTS
LINK TO LWV OF WESTON 2011 VOTERS GUIDE AS
PUBLISHED IN THE FORUM
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ONLINE
SPECIAL EVENT STILL PHOTOS AND STORY
Before
the voting by unions
(rejecting give-back deal), but after Long Session ended, the LWV of
Weston
held its VIDEOTAPED Legislative
Wrap Up 2011;
AT
LEFT...SPECIAL
SESSION OVER NOW: "What happened?" League asks legislators
Cities
and towns winners, unions losers; Senate votes to curtail
benefits in future; but wait...
SEBAC (unions) changes rules for a
re-vote - simple majority only now required.
HOUSE BILL PASSES IN BOTH CHAMBERS:
AN ACT CONCERNING THE BUDGET FOR THE
BIENNIUM ENDING JUNE 30, 2013.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=6701&which_year=2011
SENATE
BILL ON CURTAILING BENEFITS PASSES, NOT TAKEN UP BY THE HOUSE
http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=1301&which_year=2011
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Friday May 6 - LWV
of Weston Annual Meeting at Red Barn; Betty Hill International
Forum 2011 REPORT
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"GOOD RIDDANCE DAY" over for 2011 in Weston...
Photo from this year's event in Weston, above!
Click here
for other dates and locations this year (finalized so far)
Click here
for instructions on what to bring and how to pack
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REFERENDUM STORY HERE (Budgets, YES, YES; NO
on Cemetery)
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LWV
of Weston "SPEAK UP" - standing room only crowd did in 2011!
A good move for those LWV's
with a full plate of debates!
A
NOTE FROM LWVCT PRESIDENT :
Fall Conference December 3: “Back in Business”
“Back in Business: Workforce Development for Connecticut’s Economic
Future” will be
the topic of the LWVCT’s 2011 Fall Conference, to be held on Saturday,
December 3, from
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon at the University of Connecticut School of
Social Work
(Zachs Community Room), West Hartford.
Economic development, job creation and workforce development are the
intertwined critical
issues facing our state now and into the foreseeable future. If
you want to know what our
officials are thinking, our businesses are thinking, our nonprofits and
our educators are
thinking, don’t miss the conference.
Catherine Smith, Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, is
the keynote
speaker. Reacting to her remarks will be a panel of leaders from
key sectors. They are
Michael Meotti, Executive VP for the Board of Regents for Higher
Education; Chris Bruhl,
Business Council of Fairfield County; Senator Martin Looney, Majority
Leader and
co-chair of the Business Roundtable; and Joseph Carbone, Executive
Director of The Work
Place in the Bridgeport area. Kay Maxwell, LWV Greenwich, will
moderate. As one media
person commented “You’ve got a Tier 1 panel there!”
This year’s conference is being co-sponsored by Cablevision and the
University of
Connecticut School of Social Work. We are proud to be partnering
with them as we learn
more how about government, business, nonprofits, academia and citizens
can collaborate to
improve the economy.
More details and registration form to follow.
Bravo
LWVCT - it was a was a great event!!!
Click here for more.
THE BIG FINALE! VIDEO
ONLINE
HERE
A rousing performance and sing along
to "Pride and the Passion" in honor of the League of Women Voters
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LWVCT CONVENTION 2011 REPORT
HERE
Saturday May 21, 2011
LWVCT Convention
At the Graduate Club, in New
Haven
LWVCT CONVENTION: Luncheon at
left; afternoon Plenary Session at right
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Video
now online here
FALL CONFERENCE 2010 LOCATION
South Congregational Church not a sponsor.
LWVCT
FALL
CONFERENCE 2010
One
Year Later: Health
Care in Our Country and Our
State
Interesting
sidelight:
health care issue in today's news: http://www.ctmirror.org/print/14673
A SUMMARY OF THE FALL CONFERENCE
2010:
The presenters were Jacob S. Hacker, the Stanley B. Resor
Professor of Political Science at Yale University and
Kevin Lembo, Comptroller-Elect, who had held the position of state
Health Care Advocate and was co-chair of
the SustiNet Health Partnership Board of Directors. Kay Maxwell, Former LWVUS president,
moderated.
Professor
Hacker discussed the future of health care reform on the federal
level and what that would mean for
Connecticut. He has written an excellent book about all of this,
which was available.
Mr.
Lembo, Comptroller-elect, described SustiNet and informed the audience
about the
specifics of the SustiNet
Board’s upcoming recommendations to the General Assembly for
implementation.
The
responders were Stephen Glick of the Chamber Insurance Trust and
Frances Padilla, the VP Program, Policy
and Administration for the Universal Health Care Foundation of CT
(the organization that helped design SustiNet).
Written questions were collected from the audience during the
presentations and submitted to Kay Maxwell. The
entire conference was video recorded; DVDs will be distributed to
local leagues.
Link
here to
more background info and a video of the event
Want a DVD?
Click
here for
news of how to obtain one!!!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
- full story
here.
“The league has fought for 90 years to improve our system of
representative government and impact public policies
through citizen
education and advocacy,” said Helen Z. Pearl, president of the New
Britain area League of Women
Voters and a founding commissioner of the
PCSW.
NEW
TOWN PLAN NEWS HERE
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LWV
OF WESTON, CONNECTICUT -
PUBLICATIONS:
NEW for 2010 is Know Your Town Directory,
available at Town Hall, Town Hall Annex, Board of Education Central
Headquarters (to be distributed from there to each of the 4 school
buildings): and new version soon online
at the Town of Weston
website.
WESTON
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Numbered prints by Mary O'Reilly Sowinski for
sale
(some
still left!) depict Weston in 1979!
Notecards
commissioned by LWV of Weston available from the League;
- Test your knowledge of Weston...what is depicted in
the print above?
- Is this scene still there?
- Why is this view of particular importance for
Westonites?
With
the
economy turnng down, this was a very important forum:
"MUNICIPAL SHARED SERVICE: THE
ROAD AHEAD"
A
Symposium Presented by:
- The Connecticut
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- The Connecticut
Office of Policy and Management
- The League of
Women Voters of Connecticut
October
30, 2007, 7:45am-12:30pm
Central
Connecticut State
University, Student Center, Alumni Complex
Watch the
condensed version here:
Take a tour of the
Capitol with
official
League Guides--"Capitol
and Information Tours" (C.I.T.)
