| Helping Make Democracy Work! | | The Voter
Newsletter for
LWV Los Altos-Mountain View
April 15, 2023 | | In this Issue:
- League News
- Upcoming Events
- Ongoing Events
- Take Action
| | | Nominating Committee Looking for Volunteers | |
We are looking for people to be on our League's board starting July 1. The open positions are Secretary, VP Program and Membership Chair.
We meet on the first Monday of the month from 7:00 to 9:00pm and board members are expected to attend. We meet mostly on Zoom but sometimes in person.
Secretary: The secretary takes the minutes of each board meeting and at the end of year Annual Meeting. The agenda, documents related to the meeting and the minutes are uploaded to our online document library. We can teach you how.
VP Program: This position oversees our two main events, Program Planning in February and the Annual Meeting in June. Both events require securing a venue and publicizing the event to members. The VP will prepare the agenda for the Program Planning. The agenda for the Annual Meeting is a preset format.
Membership: The Membership Chair welcomes new members when they join and arranges to meet them to find out their interests. The membership chair does some database work. Again, we can show you how.
If you would like to talk more about joining our board, let us know at nominating@lwvlamv.org
|  | | | Upcoming and Ongoing Events | One Time Events
US Abortion War 2023: A CA Perspective - LWV PA Event
In addition to the flurry of abortion bans enacted in 2022, the US witnessed the highest number of abortion protections ever passed. Fully one-quarter of these were enacted in California. What does it mean to be an abortion-friendly state in a country where almost half of the states have banned abortion or are likely to do so?
- Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- REGISTER NOW
- For more information check the LWV Event Calendar.
Michelle Oberman, JD, U Santa Clara, is an international expert on the impact of abortion regulation in countries with widely divergent abortion laws. In this talk, she will share findings from her current research. How does and doesn’t California’s commitment to reproductive justice alter that landscape?
Rebuilding Water Resilience from the Bottom Up
California's water agencies are struggling to maintain cost-effective, reliable and affordable service as climate whiplash and other pressures disrupt both water availability and demand. Newsha Ajami will discuss opportunities for California’s water agencies to maintain cost-effective, reliable and affordable service going forward.
Newsha Ajami is Chief Development Office for Earth and Environmental Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory & the President of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.
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Ongoing Meetings
Board Meeting
- Monday, May 1, 2023, 7:00 - 9:00pm (in-person)
- Contact Karin Bricker for information about location.
Housing Committee Meeting
- Monday, May 8 2023, 7:00 - 9:00 pm (Virtual)
- Contact Sue Russell, Housing Committee, for instructions on joining this Zoom meeting.
- To learn about our housing-related activities: Housing Committee
Voter Services
Book Group
- Saturday, May 27, 2023, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
- Book: Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
- Contact Sue Graham to confirm interest and get the meeting location.
- To learn about our reading group: Book Club
| Climate Solutions
Earth Day 2023 - Save the Date!
The City of Mountain View will host an Earth Day 2023 celebration focusing on “Building Our Brighter Future”.
- Saturday, April 22, 9:00am – 1:00pm
- Mountain View Community Center, 201 S Rengstorff Ave, Mountain View, CA 94040
- To register: Earth Day Event
Earth Day 2023 is all about showing how our community takes action to help our environment and inviting others to participate by highlighting achievements, offering opportunities for action and having a reason for hope. Activities will include: electric vehicle ride and drives, sustainability talks, art and family fun, plant-based food tastings. | Copyright © 2023 League of Women Voters of the Los Altos-Mountain View Area, All rights reserved.
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