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School Board Elections and Budget Vote
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Voter Guide for Saratoga County
School Board Elections
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- Voting hours and registration requirements
- Print version (pdf) of Voter Guide with information received as of May 7, 2013. Later responses can be found online (see links above for individual races).
47th ANNUAL MEETING
Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 9 a.m.Saratoga's Performing Youth Artists (SPYA) will present a Salute to Activism, a tribute to League members in music and prose.
Agenda:
- 9 am Breakfast
- 9:45 Presentation of the Carrie Chapman Catt Award
- 10:00 Annual Meeting
- Treasurer's Report
- Adoption of Budget for 2013-14
- Election of Officers
- Adoption of Local Program for 2013-14
- Continuation of Support for Four League Solid Waste Position, Position
on Emergency Services in Saratoga County, Position on IDA & SEDC
- President's Report
- Direction to the Board - Salute to Activism
by Saratoga's Performing Youth Artists (SPYA)
Holiday Inn
Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY
Seneca Falls or Bust: The Suffragist Tour
Wednesday, June 26th
Join us for a pilgrimage to the roots of our activism! Unlike Susan B. Anthony who traveled in "a bone-shaking carriage," we will travel in a chartered Upstate Transit bus (complete with bathrooms!). We will walk where the suffragists walked, the sleepy little town that inspired two brave women to start a revolution....in our own backyard of Seneca Falls, N.Y. We'll have guided tours of The Women's Rights National Historical Park, the Wesleyan Chapel (site of the first Women's Rights Convention), and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's home (where she wrote the Declaration of Sentiments while raising 8 kids!)
Departure: 7am from Wilton Mall (park in Row C, near Dick's Sporting Goods) OR 7:15am from The Crossings in Clifton Park (bus shelter near Odd Lots and clock tower)
Return: 9pm to Wilton Mall and Clifton Park
Cost for members (including bus fare): $50 per person. Seats are limited. Open to the community for $55 per person. Meals on your own: Bring a bag, visit a local restaurant, or grab junk food at a Thruway stop. RSVP by May 24th. Make check out to the League of Women Voters, and mail to: Mary Lou Classen, 4 Blue Spruce Lane, Ballston Lake, NY 12019.
For more information, call Pattie Garrett at 584-4271.
Project Informed Citizens - Videos
We are pleased to announce that the League of Women Voters of Saratoga County has received a $5,890 grant from the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust for our Project Informed Citizens. The Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust was established to benefit nonprofit scientific, medical, educational, cultural, religious, and charitable organizations by funding projects and programs in memory of the Trust’s founder, Alfred Z. Solomon. We thank the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust for its generosity.
Project Informed Citizens will bring unbiased digital recordings of educational events (including candidate forums) produced by the League of Women Voters of Saratoga County to the general public in the Saratoga County region.
Check out our Videos page to see videos produced so far:
- Keeping Our Children Safe from Gun Violence in Schools:
A Solution-Based Community Forum:
Remarks of our panelists: Moderator, Susan Arbetter, the host/producer at WCNY; Kathleen Donahue, NYSUT; Dr. Oliver Robinson, NYSCOSS; Karen Parlapiano, NYSPTA; Trooper K. McMahon; Rosemary Armao, SUNYA Journalism Faculty; Dr. James Kelleher, Four Winds Hospital; and Aimee Allaud, LWVNYS Gun Control Specialist.
Hands-on work to safeguard democracy
You can be part of a grassroots network of women and men in communities across the country. Here in Saratoga, we are actively involved in making democracy work. We conduct candidate forums, provide voter registration information to local High School seniors, produce an online Voters' Guide, and lobby on many important issues in Albany.
Because your local membership dues also enroll you at the state and national League levels only a small portion of the dues stay here in Saratoga County. We work hard to write grants and fundraise to support our events and activities, so we have been able to keep our dues at the same level for the past four years. Join our vibrant group!
Aside from membership, you can stand with us and support our efforts by making a donation to support our activities.
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