Lee Wilcox
Chief of Staff, City of San José Manager's Office

Topic: " 4 Measures" the November Election

Thursday, October 18th, 11:00am to 1pm

With the November 6th election only weeks away, the League is scrambling to get candidates to participate on our Voter's Edge website.

Voter's Edge is a voter resource site and is an integral educational program for the League of Women Voters. This website is used by voters to research the legislative priorities of their local, state and federal candidates.

We need your help in contacting candidates. Often, the initial information received about candidates is incomplete. We need league volunteers to find candidate contact info, primarily telephone numbers. Then we need you to call the candidates to explain the benefit of being listed on Voter's Edge. At the time of the call, it is helpful to verify their email address as well.

Your help is really needed. If you can help, send me an email with the subject line Volunteer Voter's Edge and I will send a list of candidates to research and call.

If you have questions about volunteering for Voter's Edge, please contact Judy Conner at judyrconner@yahoo.com or 408-476-8056.

Are you looking for a chance to hear Candidates running for various offices? We have 3 more forums coming up in October. We need timers, Question Sorters and Greeters. No Experience necessary. We will train.

PLEASE CONTACT SANDY MORY,  SCMORY@COMCAST.NET IF YOU ARE INTERESTED!

LWV-SJ/SC is presenting 20 Pros and Cons talks to various groups in San Jose, Santa Clara, Morgan Hill, and Gilroy. We ask groups to select four propositions so we can talk in more depth about them, rather than go over all propositions, although questions about others are welcomed. 

Two of the presentations are open to the public:

Delta Sigma Theta alumni, Sunday, October 7th, 2-4 PM. At Emmanuel Baptist Church in East San Jose, 467 N. White Rd. Vickie Mueller Olvera, Connie Hunter, and Dee Nelson will be presenting on Propositions 1, 6, 10, and San Jose's Measure S.

Almaden Hills United Methodist Church, Tuesday, October 9th 10:30-12 noon. 1200 Blossom Hill Rd. Carol and Jim Lathrop will be presenting on Propositions 2, 3, 6, and 10.

President Mary Collins and I attended the 15th Annual Community Connections Fair on Tuesday, September 11, hosted by San Jose State University, SJSU Center for Community Learning and Leadership. Our LWV San Jose/Santa Clara has staffed a table every year. We are there to explain our mission, register voters and to promote membership. 

We interact with the students when they rush past us from the parking garage to their classes. We are lined up on each side of the road! To encourage a stop at the tables that interest them, we give them a sticker. After five different table stops, the student receives a churro!

We are various service groups. Our next door neighbors on either side of our table were "Mothers against Drunk Driving" and "PACT", People Acting in Community Together. Mary and I walked around during lulls in traffic, to meet the people staffing tables, to introduce our League and to learn more about the variety of organizations represented.

We have cooked in the sun in years past, but this year Mary bought her canopy and so we were extremely comfortable, and I think that some students stopped to get out of the sun!

Next year, we'll again staff our League table, and with more alumnae, especially professors, more students will register to vote and get to know the League!  I've enjoyed these past 15 years at my alma mater! You might take a turn at SJSU's 16th Community Connections next year!

             

LWV San Jose/Santa Clara Partners with Open Space Authority for

Global Climate Action Summit Affiliate Event

By Karen Warner Nelson

 

Last week, four thousand delegates from California and around the world gathered in San Francisco for the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS), hosted by Governor Jerry Brown.
LWV San Jose/Santa Clara partnered to create an affiliate event, Tale of Three Valleys tour, with the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority (OSA), representatives from the Paris-Plateau de Saclay Valley region in France and other local partners.

 

The Tale of Three Valleys tour on September 11 included speakers from Silicon Valley with League members Gloria Chun Hoo speaking twice during the event, and Karen Warner Nelson also speaking on the tour. Instrumental in planning our tour content was Karen Warner Nelson, who also worked closely with OSA to create the event, Virginia Holtz, Gloria Chun Hoo, Trixie Johnson and Rita Norton. The tour focused on seeing Coyote Valley first hand, to highlight the importance of open space to climate change mitigation, wildlife conservation and agricultural working lands preservation, and a myriad of other open space benefits. As urban growth and sprawl continue, regions around the world need to forge innovative partnerships with landowners, farmers, and land trusts to ensure agricultural preservation, the protection of native habitats and wildlife corridors, and to reduce and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Our event shared valuable insights about how geographic regions can accommodate urbanization while preserving the values that open space affords.

 

The Three Valleys event was a tremendous success, with 65 participants that toured in two buses and lunched at a Coyote Valley overlook. Our goals included building awareness about the importance of open space preservation for important climate change mitigation opportunities, to learn from each other regarding how to preserve agricultural working lands and wildlife, among other vital open space preservation opportunities. Tools and approaches that work were shared along with new ideas. New partnerships were formed locally, nationally and internationally among all the participants, plus existing partnerships were strengthened.

 

LWV San Jose/Santa Clara's Coyote Valley study and Climate Change/Environmental teams led our work with the Open Space Authority for this GCAS event.

OSA General Manager, Andrea MacKenzie speaks during Lunch in Coyote Valley.	San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and Caroline Doucerain, VP of the Grand Parc metropolitan area share ideas.
LWV SJ/SC  member Gloria Chun Hoo presents our role to support open space benefits for our region.	Learning more about Coyote Valley.

Our thanks to Carol Watts and Lora Kerr for their invaluable contribution to this new site and to Liz Bogatin-Starr and Karen Nelson for their hours spent testing the site before it went live. It was a great League team effort!

Find your Ballot on Voter's Edge CA HERE.

County and City Measures, HERE.

More information on the eleven State Ballot Propositions

READ MORE HERE.  

Easy Voter Guide  HERE .

  

2017-2018

• Bill Status Report: Bills on which the LWVC has taken a position and recommends action.
• Bills of Interest 2017-2018: This report includes bills being "followed" by the League, on which no formal position of support or opposition has been taken, as well as bills on which the LWVC has taken a position and recommends action.  

Need help with legislative terms? Try this useful glossary .

Want to know what the League recommends for ballot measures, based on its study and positions?  See link below to Vote with the League.  The LWV California Board reviews and makes recommendations for all state ballots while our local league board reviews local measures.

Download Vote with League flyer HERE.

League of Women Voters has joined many individuals and organizations in endorsing Measure V: To provide housing affordable for: working families; veterans; seniors; teachers; nurses; paramedics; and other workers; and helping homeless residents get off of local streets and out of neighborhood parks and creeks;  Shall San José issue $450,000,000 in general obligation bonds with an average levy of 8 cents per $1,000 of assessed value, averaging $26,217,000 annually until repaid, requiring community oversight and annual audits?

READ Measure V Pros and Cons Here.

League of Women Voters has joined many individuals and organizations in endorsing Disaster Preparedness, Public Safety, and Infrastructure Bond. To: Upgrade 911 communications, police, fire, and paramedics facilities to improve emergency and disaster response; Repair deteriorating bridges vulnerable to earthquakes; Repave streets and potholes i n the worst condition; Prevent flooding and water quality contamination; Repair critical infrastructure; Shall San José issue $650,000,000 in general obligation bonds with an average levy of 11¢ per $1,000 of assessed value, averaging $34,208,000 annually until repaid, requiring community oversight and annual audits?

READ Measure T Pros and Cons Here.

Annika McClure, Jim Lathrop Carol Lathrop - Part 1

Pros & Cons  State and Local  Ballot Measures Part 1: Oct 8 and 22 Part 2: Oct 1, 15, 29

Martha Beattie,Dee Nelson Carol Lathrop - Part 2

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