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PREPARING FOR PROGRAM PLANNING

March 1, 2010 is the deadline for local Leagues to submit the online program planning form.


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TABLE OF CONTENTS


What is Program Planning? How does it work?

Current LWVUS Positions can be found in Impact on Issues

At convention delegates may vote to:

Program Process

Program is voted on by the delegates at the convention. The delegates vote on LWVUS Board recommended program proposals and on non-recommended program proposals (if any are voted for consideration at convention).

These recommended and non-recommended program proposals come from local Leagues (LLs). LL program planning report forms are reviewed by LWVUS and the national Board then recommends one or more of the proposals for adoption at convention. "Recommendation" means that the proposal will automatically be on the agenda for consideration at convention. Not-recommended items must first survive a "vote to consider" at convention before they go on the agenda. This is a difference worth noting. If you want your proposal to go to convention as a recommended item you must have considerable support from other Leagues. It is usually the proposal with the most support that becomes the recommended proposal. The Convention Workbook contains the national Board's recommended program proposals and a list of the submitted, but not recommended proposals. Only the submitted proposals on that list may be voted "for consideration" at convention. No last minute proposals can be voted on. So plan ahead.

See the 2008 Convention Workbook for details on the Program adoption process.


Please contact me if you have a topic for a Program proposal that you would like me to add to this page.


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Barbara Wardenburg - barbXard@pacbell.net [replace X with w]
a member of the League of Women Voters of Los Altos/Mtn. View Area, CA
22 Aug 2009, revised 17 Jan 2010