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LWVN Board Concurs with Newton Citizens Commission on Energy’s Memo Rejecting Newton Cemetery’s Tree Removal Request

On June 24, 2022, LWVN sent an email to Mayor Fuller expressing our our agreement with the Newton Citizens Commission on Energy (NCCE)’s memo of June 20th stating “We are writing to you regarding the Newton Cemetery’ request for exemption from the Tree Preservation Ordinance. We urge you to stand with the Director of Urban Forestry in denying that request and any waiver of its consequences. We also urge you to ask the City Council to revise the ordinance language to clarify their intent that the Tree Preservation Ordinance not exclude any property owners from its provisions.”

Read the full NCCE memo here.

See below for President Marcia Johnson’s memo to the LWVN Board notifying it of this action and the reasons for taking it.

06.24.22 Letter to Board re Cemetery Tree Removal Action

 

National Convention

National Convention – June 23-26

LWVUS 55th Annual Convention will be taking place on June 23 – 26, 2022.  Attendees will have the opportunity to join the convention in-person in Denver, Colorado or participate online.  More information can be found here.

Learn more about National Convention here.

If you are a member of LWVN and would like to attend the National Convention, please Contact Us so that we can know who will be attending.

 

LWVN Signs on To Petition Supporting Funding for Early Education and Child Care

On June 12, 2022, LWVN signed on to the Common Start Coalitions’ Petition calling on state legislators from both the House and Senate to maximize funding in this year’s state budget for early education and child care contemplated in An Act to Expand Access to High-Quality, Affordable Early Education and Care, H.4795/S.2883. If the State Legislature passes this bill and the Governor signs, it will greatly improve the Commonwealth’s early education and child care system, ensuring high-quality early education and child care that is affordable and accessible for all families.

Read more information on the Common Start Coalition.

See President Marcia Johnson’s memo to the LWVN Board notifying it of this action and the reasons for taking it.

LWVN Signs on to Childcare Advocacy Action

LWVMA Supports Funding for Early Education and Child Care

LWVMA is also supporting funding for early education and child care in this year’s state budget and providing affordable and accessible high quality early education and childcare in Massachusetts is a LWVMA priority bill that was featured at Day on the Hill. See League testimony here and fact sheet here.

Take Action Now

Please contact your legislators to ask them to encourage the Legislature’s budget conference committee to include the new early education and child care funding from both the House AND Senate budgets in their final conference budget. If the priorities of both chambers make it into the final budget, it would represent a substantial step toward implementing our full vision of a high-quality early education and childcare system that is affordable and accessible for all families.

Please call or email your state Senator and Representative; leave a voice message. Find your legislator’s contact information here.

Here is a suggested script:

I’m a member of the League of Women Voters of ________ and a constituent. I am contacting you about the Common Start early education and childcare funding provisions that are part of the House and Senate budget bills now in the budget conference committee. I am asking you to urge the Legislature’s budget conference committee to include the new early education and child care funding from both the House AND Senate budgets in their final conference budget, to advance the vision of a high-quality early education and childcare system that is affordable and accessible for all families in Massachusetts.

Thank you!

(Your name and your street address)

State Council/National Convention

State Council Set for June 11

The 2022 LWVMA Council will be held on Saturday, June 11 from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m.  

Ellen Clegg, former Editorial Page Editor of The Boston Globe, and Northeastern University Professor Dan Kennedy, are the keynote speakers. Their remarks will focus on the collapse of community journalism and its causes. We will learn, too, of the alternative paths that entrepreneurial journalists are creating to keep providing news and information citizens need to govern themselves in a democracy.

There’s no limit to the number of members who can register; the leadership of LWVN will designate its voting delegates. There is no cost to attend as delegate or as an observer.

This event will be held on zoom.  Register here.

For questions about the State Council, please contact the LWVMA Office at (857) 452-1715.

National Convention Set for June 23-26

LWVUS has published the first call for its 55th Annual Convention June 23 – 26, 2022.  This event will beheld in-person.  More information can be found here.

If you are a member of LWVN and would like to attend either the State Council or the National Convention, please Contact Us so that we can know who will be attending.

 

RSVP to LWVN’s 2022 Annual Meeting

Thank you for your interest in attending the League of Women Voters of Newton’s Annual Meeting!

June 12, 2022
3:00 pm to 6:00pm
Nathaniel Allen Center for Arts & Culture
35 Webster Street, West Newton

Beverages and appetizers will be served.  A donation of $25 is suggested.

Click the appropriate link below to choose your preferred way to RSVP…

  • RSVP and donate via PayPal or credit card
  • RSVP and donate via check:
    • send a check to Treasurer, LWVN, P.O. Box 610207, Newton, MA 02461 (write Annual Meeting on the memo line), and
    • RSVP using the “RSVP only” link below
  • RSVP only – simply let us know you’ll be attending the annual meeting in the message section.  If multiple people from your household will attend, just include each attendees name in the message.

We look forward to seeing you on June 12!