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Program is our focus for study and action. League leaders, with input from portfolio chairs, committee chairs, and other members, set the agenda that members pursue during the League year. |
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What is our current program? For the League program year that runs from June 2007 through May 2008, our League members voted at the annual meeting to adopt a program with many elements, including the following:
Education and action on following issues: universal health care, publicly financed campaigns, enforcement of environmental laws and regulations, and public participation elements of 2006 amendment to Snohomish County Charter Studies: Public/private partnerships, LWVSC airport study consensus, LWVWA ferry study consensus
Member concerns are translated into a calendar of local league activities at the calendaring retreat held in the summer, to which all members are invited.
How do we decide what our local league's program will be? Each year, our local League board drafts and approves a program proposal during the spring months and submits it to the membership at the annual meeting in May. There, a quorum of members must vote on whether to approve the program as-is, or else amend it during the meeting and then approve it. In LWVSC, a vice-president in charge of program leads the effort to draft the program proposal.
Between May and December, individual members who want to help shape the program are encouraged to approach the LWVSC board and/or any LWVSC portfolio chair to talk about their ideas for the following year's issues advocacy program. Also, any League member with considerable knowledge of a particular public policy area may propose at any LWVSC board meeting that LWVSC establish a new portfolio to address issues related to that area. The board meets monthly, September through May.
As a rule, LWVSC leaders collect ideas for next year's priorities at a unit meeting held in January. The board considers these ideas in formulating a list of priorities to bring to the membership meeting in May. Finally, in August, members translate the priorities approved at the membership meeting into a calendar of public meetings and other work to accomplish during the subsequent nine-month period.
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