PROGRAM PLANNING 2022 - Speak Up! Take Action!

PROGRAM PLANNING 2022
     Speak Up! Take Action!

"Program" is the issue or issues that will
be the central focus of work for a League
for a specific time period.
Leagues at each level—national, state,
local—select a "program"                     PROGRAM PLANNING?
                                             WHAT'S PROGRAM?
Why? Selecting a program keeps the
League focused. Focusing brings results.

If other needs arise, we adapt and our
focus may change.

PROGRAM PLANNING: WHAT IS IT?

 Program Planning is the heart
  of the League's commitment to
  grassroots participation.

                                   Program Planning is an opportunity
                                    for members to recommend to their
                                    local, state, and national boards which
                                    issues are most important to them.

PROGRAM PLANNING PROCESS

How it works...                                                       Did you know?
    Local Leagues gather.
                                                                       LWVUS holds its
                                                                        convention in even
    Members discuss and weigh issues.                                   years.

                                                                       LWVNY holds its
    Discussion leads to recommendations.                                conventions in odd
                                                                        years.

    Recommendations are sent to the relevent board—LWVUS, LWVNY, or
    LWV Cooperstown.                                                   LWV Cooperstown
                                                                        Area holds annual
                                                                        meetings.
    Board makes recommendation for program adoption to convention
    delegates or at local annual meeting.

PROGRAM PLANNING 2022

                             Focus on
                             National Issues
  LWVUS Convention
  Denver, June 23-26, 2022

PROGRAM PLANNING 2022
Current National Positions
Citizen’s Right to Vote • DC Self-Government and Full Voting Representation • Money in Politics •
Apportionment • Redistricting • Selection of the President • Congress • The Presidency
Voter Representation/Electoral Systems • Citizen’s Right to Know/Citizen Participation
Constitutional Amendment Proposals • Constitutional Conventions • • Individual Liberties
Public Policy on Reproductive Choices • Privatization •

United Nations • Trade • Developing Countries • Arms Control • Military Policy and Defense Spending
Natural Resources • Resource Management • Transfer of Federal Public Lands • Air Quality •
Solid Waste • Nuclear Waste • Climate Change • Water Resources • Nuclear Issues •
Public Participation • Agriculture Policies

Equality of Opportunity • Employment • Fair Housing • •Nondiscrimination and Affirmative Action
Pay Equity • Equal Rights for Women • Same Gender Equality • •Education •
Federal Role in Public Education • Fiscal Policy

SO MANY ISSUES,
SO LITTLE TIME
You can see why FOCUS is so
important!
You can understand why LWVUS asks
us to choose areas of focus.
Read full positions here [link to Impact
on Issues]

LWVUS RECOMMENDED PROGRAM 2022

 This year the LWVUS Board            Our Task:

  recommends that Program 2022-2024    ✓ Decide if we want
                                         the LWVUS to
  continue the campaign for Making       continue this work
  Democracy Work® with Leagues         ✓ Accept our
  throughout the country working on:     responsibility as a
                                         local League to
    ➢ Voting Rights                      support Making
    ➢ Improving Elections                Democracy Work®

    ➢ Money in Politics
    ➢ Redistricting

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!!!

Program Planning is also an
opportunity for each League to
tell the LWVUS which other
issues concern our League.
If enough Leagues have the same
concern, the LWVUS Board may
decide to recommend other
issues to the delegates at
convention.

OTHER TIMELY ISSUES

The LWVNY would like our League to voice
support for concurrence on two issues:

     ▪ Healthcare

     ▪ Digital Equity

REACHING MEMBER AGREEMENT
                    CONSENSUS OR CONCURRENCE?

Before the League can take action, members must agree in broad terms on what
they think about various aspects of the policy issue. The nature of the issue will
affect how it is studied and how positions are reached.
                                                                  The technique most often
                                                                     used in the League for
 The board usually selects the method to be used:              reaching member agreement
                                                                   is CONSENSUS by group
  ✓Consensus (where agreement is reached using                   discussion. It is not a simple
                                                                 majority, nor is it unanimity;
   League responses to specific questions) or                  rather it is the overall sense of
                                                                     the group as expressed
  ✓Concurrence (where agreement or a vote on a                 through the exchange of ideas
                                                                  and opinions, whether in a
   pre-stated position is required)                                    meeting of the full
                                                                  membership or a series of
                                                                smaller discussion meetings.

REQUESTS FOR CONCURRENCE
UPDATE TO LWVUS HEALTHCARE POSITION

              Why support?
              Adding the proposed new language to LWVUS Health Care
               Position will not require outlay of resources by either
               local Leagues or LWVUS.
              Concurrence will support of our Diversity, Equity and
               Inclusion (DEI) efforts by allowing Leagues to
               support improvements to our health care system that will
               benefit poor, BIPOC, rural, and other socially and
               economically disadvantaged residents.
              Access to quality health care is a concern for a majority of
               Americans.
             Read the full concurrence:
             https://pwm.tempurl.host/hc-concurrence/

REQUESTS FOR
CONCURRENCE
DIGITAL EQUITY
Why Support?
Concurring with the LWV Connecticut's position at Convention
would—
   give the LWVUS a much needed position on what is now
    usually termed “broadband access” without requiring any
    outlay of resources by either local or state Leagues or
    LWVUS.
   support our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts by
    enabling all Leagues to advocate for Digital Equity, and
   support the campaign for Making Democracy Work® by
    enabling advocacy for the public’s access to local and state
    government activities via digital and other community
    access and public affairs media.
  Read the full concurrence statement here:
  https://www.lwvnm.org/broadband/

FOCUSING ON OUR COMMUNITY
      Choosing Local Priorities

What Are Our League's Priorities?
     What is our League's part in Making Democracy
     Work® ?
     What issues are we actively working on currently?
     What other issues or actions should we consider?
       • Recycling food waste?
       • Increasing youth voting?
       • Something else?

     Bring your ideas!

BRING YOUR IDEAS TO
PROGRAM PLANNING ON FEBRUARY 16, 6 PM
Zoom Link

             Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84681499487
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