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Updated January 25, 2012
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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS -
Cuyahoga Area,
Heights Chapter
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Inauguration Day is now less than a year away. A Leap Year such
as 2012 is also a Presidential Election year. The March 6, 2012
Primary Election is coming up. Besides selecting party
candidates for offices, voters will decide an issue: renewing
the Cuyahoga County Health and Human Services tax levy.
The
Cuyahoga County Board of Elections Web page has useful tools:
Check your
registration
Precinct-by-precinct
sample
ballots
Don't know your precinct or voting
location? Here
you are
Absentee/vote by mail information
Optical scan ballot instructions
Unable to display pdf files? The Adobe
Reader is a free
download
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LWV Ohio NE Ohio Regional Meetings
Date: 2/25/2012
Time: 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Parma Heights Library
6206 Pearl Road
Parma Heights, OH 44130
LWV Ohio Co-President Nancy Brown will update local League
members on redistricting reform, and discuss the Accountability
Project. This project allows local leagues to access grant funds
to address local issues in their community. For registration, go
here.
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Book Club Meeting
Date: 3/11/2012
Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM
The
Fear by Peter Godwin.
Meeting at a private home. For more information contact lwhahn@att.net.
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Privatization
Study Consensus
Date: 3/28/2012
Time: 11:00AM - 2:00PM
The
League of Women Voters Cuyahoga Area will be participating in the
LWVUS study on privatization with a consensus meeting on
Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at Massimo de Milano restaurant, 11:00
AM to 2:00 PM. A buffet lunch will be available for $11.00.
Mr Zach Schiller from Policy Matters Ohio will speak, followed by
discussion and consensus. According to the LWVUS web site,
the scope of the study is to identify those parameters and policy
issues to be considered in connection with proposals to transfer
federal, state or local government services, assets and/or
functions to the private sector. It will review the stated goals
and the community impact of such transfers, and identify
strategies to ensure transparency, accountability, and
preservation of the common good. For study materials, go to
www.lwv.org/content/leaders-guide-privatization-study-consensus.
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Regionalism
- Efforts extending beyond Cuyahoga County
The Northeast Ohio "Regional
Prosperity Initiative" (www.neo-rpi.org)
has produced detailed interim reports and final to-do lists on a
16-county plan for regional land use planning and "New Growth
Tax-base Sharing."
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The LWV Cuyahoga Area Web site is a good
source of information about current issues and upcoming events.
At this Web site can be found links to the LWV Ohio brochure, "The
Sunshine Law: Ohio's Open Meetings Act".
If you have and/or use an Internet
news reader, you can go here
to set up automatic reception of LWV Cuyahoga Area
announcements.
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The Adobe Reader is a free
download.
Join the Heights Chapter of LWV Cuyahoga Area
If you are interested in the
League and our Heights Chapter, join the LWV Cuyahoga Area at http://www.lwvcuyahogaarea.org/site.cfm/Join-Us.cfm
and indicate your interest to
affiliate with the Heights Chapter.
If you need more information,
feel free to contact the Heights chapter contact of LWV Cuyahoga
Area:
Maryann Barnes,
mbarnes9515@gmail.com
216 321-7525
Heights Chapter listservs
You do not need to be a member to subscribe to our chapter’s
emailing lists. We encourage you to do so to learn about our
activities. You can find and join two listservs for the Heights
Chapter by searching Google Groups with “lwv chuh” as keywords, or
click on the links below:
Notices
list:
Receive meeting notices for the Heights Chapter, LWV action
alerts, and postings of volunteer opportunities; subscribe to LWV
CHUH notices.
Observer reports:
Receive observer reports of public meetings
of the city councils of Cleveland Heights and
University Heights, the Cleveland Heights-University
Heights Board of Education, and the Cleveland
Heights-University Heights Public Library Board.
These reports are also
summarized regularly in the
Heights Observer. To receive the full reports by email, subscribe
to the LWV CHUH Observer reports.
KNOW YOUR LEAGUE
OTHER LEAGUE HOME PAGES:
Heights Chapter Study:
Get to know CH-UH Schools: http://chuh.net/lwv/s-a
- How To access
buildings, get the current news on events
- Compare 1970 and
2000, finances to achievement to attendance
Useful Links:
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National On-Line League Voters' Guides:
Smart Voter: Ohio and National
Democracy Network
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Courts and the Law:
The Cleveland Law
Library (http://www.clevelandlawlibrary.org)
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Parliamentary Procedure for your meetings?
Robert's Rules of Order:
http://www.constitution.org/rror/rror--00.htm
provided by the Constitution
Society
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ELECTORAL COLLEGE (How it Works):
http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecmenu2.htm
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FOUNDING DOCUMENTS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: