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www.lwvwestonct.org
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Weston LWV Steering Committee "virtual" since May...
First virtual Annual Meeting June 26, 2020!
Be "in the know" on elections. Join! MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
The LWV of Weston CT is all in for Election 2020...
What do you want to know about CT candidates and/or issues? CLICK above and ask.
NOTE: Both candidates for the 135th House District have agreed to a Weston LWV DEBATE!!!
Observer Corps reports
Town Hall re-opened
JULY 16th at 6:15pm Public Hearing to apply for CTDOT capital improvement grants. Then at
7pm, Special Town Meeting to transfer parcels of Town land to CT DOT for Davis Hill Road
bridge project for price agreed. Via Google Meet at Board of Selectmen.
IMPLEMENTATION NEXT STEP
TOWN PLAN OF C&D ADOPTED JUNE 15, 2020 EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2020
Absentee voting in COVID: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/Office-of-the-Governor/
Executive-Orders/Lamont-Executive-Orders/Executive-Order-No-7OO.pdf?la=en
NOTE: The Presidential Primary has now been moved to coincide with State Primary date.
Source: Observer Corps.
Follow-up discussion regarding tax collection on July 9, 2020 as relates to budget.
4)All of Gov. Lamont's Executive Orders here
a)PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY now August 11, 2020 .
b)Governor Order 7I in full;
c)Home-Rule overruled in 7I (#12 and #13)
DECLARATION OF LOCAL CIVIL PREPAREDNESS EMERGENCY
PUBLIC MEETING LAWS ARE...SUSPENDED (CLICK HERE)
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COVID-19 INFO: C.D.C. WEBSITE LINK
ADVICE: The LWVUS has been studying healthcare for a long time...
PLEASE READ THIS DIRECTIVE FOR ALL LEAGUES ON COVID-19
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[Note: For best viewing quality of the "Speak Up" video click the gear-shaped icon
that will appear near the lower right corner of the video window when the video starts
to play, and under "Quality" select the highest quality that is listed, which may depend
on your Internet connection speed. Also, for even better quality click the square icon
that is nearby at the lower right corner to play the video full screen].
STANDING ROOM ONLY for Speak Up 2020!!! Website manager's "Picture Story" here.
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TOWN PLAN UPDATE NEWS: Public Hearing to be in June 2020 "Virtually"
OBSERVER CORPS:
- P&Z approves Draft POCD at January 2, 2020 meeting. Read it in its entirety here.
- Sent to Selectmen to start 65-day clock running until P&Z Public Hearing April 4, 2020.
- BUT wait...COVID-19 interferes and now it will be "virtual P.H." June 6, 2020, 9am-noon.
https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_126.htm#sec_8-23
Here's how P&Z explained the process...
OFFICIAL NEWS OF PLAN UPDATE
CONTACT US
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The League of Women Voters® of Weston, Connecticut, presents ...
A "Community Conversation" on "Local News, Community, and Democracy"
[Note: For best viewing quality of the following video click the gear-shaped icon that will
appear near the lower right corner of the video window when the video starts to play, and
under "Quality" select "1080p" if it isn't already selected (assuming you have a reasonably
high speed Internet connection). And for even better quality click the square icon that is
nearby at the lower right corner to play the video full screen].
A distinguished panel of three long-time League members having extensive professional
journalism and communications experience presents and discusses results of recent research
on the state of independent local news coverage and its future.
Panelists are Dr. Tom Failla, Kathleen Failla, and Laura Smits.
Held November 16, 2019, at the Weston Public Library, Weston, Connecticut.
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2019 Annual Meeting held in...Weston Town Center!
WestonLWV SPEAK UP 2020, coming February 8th!
Note: For best viewing quality click the gear-shaped icon that will appear near
the lower right corner of the video window when the video starts to play, and
under "Quality" select "1080p." Also, if you wish, click the square icon that is
nearby at the lower right corner to play the video full screen.
ADDITIONAL COVERAGE HERE
Link to post-election statutorily required report from O.F.A. and O.P.M.
CT FISCAL CHALLENGES PROGRAM: League program over but the problem remains.
Link to "picture story & video" - video is also shown below - Weston LWV event.
NEW from CT MIRROR:
https://ctmirror.org/2019/05/16/lamonts-pension-shift-would-leave-cts-children-deep-in-debt/
Click here to join the LWV of Weston, CT. and/or
Click here to make a tax-deductable donation to LWV Ed Fund
What's going on at P&Z? Board of Selectmen? Ask League Observer here.
VIMEO OF SELECTMEN'S MEETINGS
LWV of WESTON :
CONTACT OUR LOCAL LWV WEBSITE
Town of Weston; State LWV, LWVUS. Want to be in the know? LWV Weston membership.
T H E L E A G U E O P E R A T E S A T T H R E E L E V E L S
Sat. Feb. 8th at 10:30a.m., Weston Library picture story
SPEAK UP 2020
Previously...
February 9, 2019, 10:30am to 12 noon at Weston Library
SPEAK UP 2019:
February 3, 2018, 10:30am to 12 noon at Weston Library
SPEAK UP 2018:
Please find earlier Speak Up video here.
LWV of Weston ELECTION 2018 and RESULTS page here.
Steering Committee
NOT current: NEW page in the works...coming in the Fall.
REGIONAL LAND USE
For Legislative proposals for regional land use matters: NEW TASK FORCE.
Table of Contents to even more archived Weston LWV activities!
LWVof Weston 27th "Speak Up" video!
"Speak Up 2018" ran on the Town TV at 10a.m. daily for weeks...please read
Weston-Today follow-up story here.
The 27th annual Speak Up is over. Big crowd! Both on stage and in the audience!
Topics with more than one question/discussion about them:
1. taxes; 2. sustainability/environment/planning 3. education and special ed...
Click here to join the LWV of Weston, CT. and/or
Click here to make a tax-deductable donation
What the LWV of WESTON has done previously...SOUND INTERESTING? JOIN US!!!
" L E G I S L A T I V E W R A P - U P " P I C T U R E S T O R Y
WATCH LWV of Weston "LEGISLATIVE WRAP UP" on Channel 79 ("WGTV") at 10am every day
and get the information re: answer to the last question about Amazon here.
League of Women Voters of Weston "Legislative Wrap Up" Saturday, September 16, 2017
BUDGET PROCESS
How can towns plan for the coming year without knowledge of what CT funds will be available, Weston asks Legislators?
A "Community Conversation" on "Local News, Community, and Democracy"
[Note: For best viewing quality of the following video click the gear-shaped icon that will
appear near the lower right corner of the video window when the video starts to play, and
under "Quality" select "1080p" if it isn't already selected (assuming you have a reasonably
high speed Internet connection). And for even better quality click the square icon that is
nearby at the lower right corner to play the video full screen].
A distinguished panel of three long-time League members having extensive professional
journalism and communications experience presents and discusses results of recent research
on the state of independent local news coverage and its future.
Panelists are Dr. Tom Failla, Kathleen Failla, and Laura Smits.
Held November 16, 2019, at the Weston Public Library, Weston, Connecticut.
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2019 Annual Meeting held in...Weston Town Center!
WestonLWV SPEAK UP 2020, coming February 8th!
Note: For best viewing quality click the gear-shaped icon that will appear near
the lower right corner of the video window when the video starts to play, and
under "Quality" select "1080p." Also, if you wish, click the square icon that is
nearby at the lower right corner to play the video full screen.
ADDITIONAL COVERAGE HERE
Link to post-election statutorily required report from O.F.A. and O.P.M.
CT FISCAL CHALLENGES PROGRAM: League program over but the problem remains.
Link to "picture story & video" - video is also shown below - Weston LWV event.
NEW from CT MIRROR:
https://ctmirror.org/2019/05/16/lamonts-pension-shift-would-leave-cts-children-deep-in-debt/
Click here to join the LWV of Weston, CT. and/or
Click here to make a tax-deductable donation to LWV Ed Fund
What's going on at P&Z? Board of Selectmen? Ask League Observer here.
VIMEO OF SELECTMEN'S MEETINGS
LWV of WESTON :
CONTACT OUR LOCAL LWV WEBSITE
Town of Weston; State LWV, LWVUS. Want to be in the know? LWV Weston membership.
T H E L E A G U E O P E R A T E S A T T H R E E L E V E L S
- CHECK OUT NEXT SELECTMEN'S MEETING AGENDA/REPORT & VIMEO.
- BUDGET REVIEW SCHEDULE FY'21 was overtaken by Executive Order. All of them here.
A brief synopsis of this year's process...
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES NOW AUGUST 11, 2020 - NEW ELECTION 2020 PAGE
- Town Meetings;
- CFR; Ethics. CIVICS education.
- Click on voter services for Election 2019 & WESTON LWV VOTERS GUIDE 2019
Sat. Feb. 8th at 10:30a.m., Weston Library picture story
SPEAK UP 2020
Previously...
February 9, 2019, 10:30am to 12 noon at Weston Library
SPEAK UP 2019:
February 3, 2018, 10:30am to 12 noon at Weston Library
SPEAK UP 2018:
Please find earlier Speak Up video here.
LWV of Weston ELECTION 2018 and RESULTS page here.
Steering Committee
NOT current: NEW page in the works...coming in the Fall.
REGIONAL LAND USE
For Legislative proposals for regional land use matters: NEW TASK FORCE.
Table of Contents to even more archived Weston LWV activities!
LWVof Weston 27th "Speak Up" video!
"Speak Up 2018" ran on the Town TV at 10a.m. daily for weeks...please read
Weston-Today follow-up story here.
The 27th annual Speak Up is over. Big crowd! Both on stage and in the audience!
Topics with more than one question/discussion about them:
1. taxes; 2. sustainability/environment/planning 3. education and special ed...
Click here to join the LWV of Weston, CT. and/or
Click here to make a tax-deductable donation
What the LWV of WESTON has done previously...SOUND INTERESTING? JOIN US!!!
" L E G I S L A T I V E W R A P - U P " P I C T U R E S T O R Y
WATCH LWV of Weston "LEGISLATIVE WRAP UP" on Channel 79 ("WGTV") at 10am every day
and get the information re: answer to the last question about Amazon here.
League of Women Voters of Weston "Legislative Wrap Up" Saturday, September 16, 2017
BUDGET PROCESS
How can towns plan for the coming year without knowledge of what CT funds will be available, Weston asks Legislators?
THE NORFIELD RED OAK DECISION
"Work is expected to commence December 27th and end on December 29th on the oak tree at the corner
of Norfield Road and Norfield Farm Lane. It is expected that there will be delays and possible closures
on Norfield Road to allow for work to be done safely." From Tree Warden, Town of Weston website
Tri-Board Meeting on Governor's Budget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFzXzhcmAHU
Governor's Budget Proposals by town graphic from CT Mirror:
http://ctmirror.org/2017/02/08/see-how-your-town-fares-in-the-governors-proposed-budget/
"S P E A K U P 2 0 1 7"
Topics were Hartford melt down, P&Z Town Plan update, D.C. direction from all sides, and others.
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ELECTION 2016 IN WESTON
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ALWAYS A GREAT TREAT TO WATCH...
LWV OF WESTON ANNUAL MEETING JUNE 3, 2016, ASPETUCK VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB
"Picture Story" click above, Go direct to Betty Hill Forum address by John Seigenthaler below.
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A N D E V E N M O R E H I S T O R Y ...
S P E A K U P 2 0 1 6 " P I C T U R E S T O R Y " - C L I C K H E R E
Previous "Speak Up" link
LWV of Weston "PICTURE STORY" of 2015 three debates in one Saturday morning plus lunch...
Read Weston FORUM print edition front page story Oct. 22 for reporter's wrap up and highlights!!!
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Weston's "DNA" series of discussion or "Community Conversations"
CONVERSATION #3: LWV of Weston explores farming heritage.
CONVERSATION#2: LWV of Weston program on Weston's Natural Resources over...
CONVERSATION #1: LWV of Weston plan of development update program over...
The League of Women Voters of Weston hosted an update of the Weston Town Plan of Conservation and
Development on Sunday, April 26, from 3:30 to 5 in the Weston Town Hall Commission Room.
Dr. Tom Failla, Chairman of P&Z presented and ably answered any and all questions in a broad-ranging
discussion...story in full: http://www.thewestonforum.com/47461/public-discusses-weston-town-plan/
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH PROGRAMS
From our ACTION position...drawn up originally at Program Planning...
ACTION ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
The Weston League of Women Voters is into Land Use. Link: http://www.lwvweston.org/lwvctkelda.htm
WATER SUPPLY: Time for another program? Previous event: http://www.lwvweston.org/program.html
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2015 SPEAK UP VIDEO HERE IN TWO FORMATS
TOWN TV Channel 79: THE PICTURE STORY:
Standing room only LWV of Weston "SPEAK UP 2015" over...
League thanks all who attended, both our invited officials and the interested populace. We thought
we heard a restrained concern about being financially squeezed, but maybe not!
Picture story continues here.
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Nobody asked about this...the budget process.
Check out the First Selectman's Budget FY'16 here; LWV of Weston process graphic blow-up here;
Feb. 3 Tri-Board Meeting "streaming" a setting for a demographic preamble:
We watched the "streaming" Board of Ed Thurs. Jan 29th...Thanks for the "Speak Up" plug!!!
IT WAS 2001 WHEN THIS TOPIC CAME UP AT P.R.I. PUBLIC HEARING
Some other matters to ask about at Speak Up...is it time yet for this issue to surface again?
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Lights Committee 'walk', Dec. 3, 2014. New planning Region? Anything new on the Town Website?
With permission, enters private property, measure if "zero" light achieved; WCCOG? Anything new with h2o?
Legislature in Long Session: What's hot? News on school enrollment?
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What happened over the summer of 2014? Lots of work inside and out on School Road! This year?
- Nothing new to the public on
drainage study, involving Onion Barn,
perhaps.
- Lights up/on at the
football field see above, Board of Education's
Facilities Committee on top of this.
- Senior Center South House project underway, not
pictured.
- Weston Library internal changes in line for grant
after planning process, no picture.
- Nothing coming out of the "land swap" between Town and bank properties.
- PROPOSAL NOW WITHDRAWN BY
BANK after
July 23, 2014
ANNUAL MEETING (LWV OF WESTON) 2015
"Beyond 2016: Next Generation American Politics" - watch on YouTube here.
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ANNUAL MEETING (LWV of WESTON) 2014:
Annual Meeting approved new bylaws that formalize the "Steering Committee" as an alternative way to
conduct League business (approved in concept by LWVCT), among other items on the agenda.
The LWV of Weston “Betty Hill Forum” and
luncheon May 30, 2014 555began at noon at the Red Barn
featured CT Comptroller Kevin Lembo.
Our guest speaker will address the topic:
“The State of the State, Transparency, and the Future
of Connecticut’s Economy.”
"Picture story" here.
WATCH COMPTROLLER LEMBO'S TALK & Q&A ON THIS TOPIC...LINKS BELOW.
The
video is 52 minutes 20 seconds long, and is
presented in two formats:
Windows
Media Player format (best viewed on Windows
computers via Internet Explorer, which will open
Windows Media Player and begin playback without
waiting for the entire file to download; other
browsers may not
begin playback until the entire file has downloaded,
which may take several minutes or more. Can be
viewed on
Apple computers if Windows Media Player has been
installed):
www.lwvweston.org/LWVAnnualMtg5-30-14.wmv
(139 MegaBytes)
MP4 format (viewable on most Windows
and Apple computers, but playback may not start until
the entire file has
downloaded, which may take several minutes or more):
www.lwvweston.org/LWVAnnualMtg5-30-14.mp4
(232 MegaBytes)
CT cleared
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http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/DMV-agrees-to-follow-law-after-DOJ-voter-9125802.php
SPEAKER: Hon. Kevin Lembo, CT Comptroller, 15th Betty Hill Forum Friday, May 30, 2014
Excellent turnout! Answer re: "future?" Moving slowly forward toward GAAP. Commented on 50-state
bidding wars for jobs. Questioned state commitment to infrastructure improvements and repairs (we think
we heard that, but we'll check the tape later).
CT cleared - http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/DMV-agrees-to-follow-law-after-DOJ-voter-9125802.php
CT ethics is a matter of interest. Comptroller Lembo at 2014 Annual Meeting/Betty Hill Forum.
Please join the League of Women Voters of Weston, CT - not just for lunch! Online membership info here.
BACKGROUND READING about topics covered.
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SPECIAL LWV of Weston meeting Friday Feb. 22nd the day before rescheduled Speak Up...
LWV of Greenwich held this meeting Tuesday...not Simpson-Bowles, but sequester question to the fore.
"HARD CHOICES AHEAD - SIMPSON-BOWLES (A Framework for Change)"
Picture story here.
Videotaped by LWV for online here:
Best viewed with Internet
Explorer, which will automatically open Windows Media
Player and start playback
without waiting for the download to complete.
1 hour 20 minutes 34 seconds
For cable and dsl users:
http://www.lwvweston.org/Himes2-22-13CableVersion.wmv
(208 Megabytes)
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http://www.lwvweston.org/Himes2-22-13ModemVersion.wmv
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PUBLIC HEARING ON WESTON ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS COMING MARCH 21ST AT 7PM IN TOWN HALL
WESTON SELECTMEN SERVE UP GUN REG DISCUSSION!
Held November 10, 2012, before Sandy Hook School tragedy in Newtown.
LWV Town Affairs Update: Public discussion of space needs needed?
without waiting for the download to complete.
1 hour 20 minutes 34 seconds
For cable and dsl users:
http://www.lwvweston.org/Himes2-22-13CableVersion.wmv
(208 Megabytes)
For dial-up modem users:
http://www.lwvweston.org/Himes2-22-13ModemVersion.wmv
(30 Megabytes)
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PUBLIC HEARING ON WESTON ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS COMING MARCH 21ST AT 7PM IN TOWN HALL
WESTON SELECTMEN SERVE UP GUN REG DISCUSSION!
Held November 10, 2012, before Sandy Hook School tragedy in Newtown.
LWV Town Affairs Update: Public discussion of space needs needed?
