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LWVCT CONVENTION 2011 NOW HISTORY - BUT PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IDEA IS GROWING IN CT
The Call to Convention 2011 here

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http://www.lwvweston.org/LWVCT5-21-11Gelinas.wmv (150MB, 56 mins 43 secs)

Nicole Gelinas explained the meaning of "P.P.P." or public-private partnership...

PROS AND CONS OF PRIVATIZATION
Address by Nicole Gelinas to the 2011 LWVCT Convention

Plus presentation of LWVCT Awards to Local Leagues, and individuals of more than 50-year membership

PICTURE STORY OF LWVCT CONVENTION 2011
The League of Women Voters of Connecticut, Inc. Convention 2011 took place Saturday, May 21, 2011 at the Graduate Club, New Haven, CT. After a morning Plenary Session, luncheon and our keynote speaker came next...

INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS
LWVCT President Cheryl Dunson introduced our distinguished keynote speaker, Ms. Gelinas, and the topic.

NEW HAVEN AVIANS (not visible in picture) offered comments
After an excellent lunch, the delegates and visitors listened intently to privatization report. The birds may have been saying it was a less expensive way to do local projects - "cheap"

PPP's BEGAN ACROSS THE POND
Ms. Gelinas defined PPP for the League. She has studied the PPP model over the last 10 years or so.

LWV QUESTIONS & MS. GELINAS' ANSWERS FOLLOWED

Then it was back to business and the AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION (see below). Election of Officers (who had been nominated in the morning Plenary Session) followed, plus other parts of the agenda related to program, and then LWVCT was delighted to entertain 2nd Vice President of the League of Women Voters of the United States and our Liaison, Judy Davis. Ms. Davis answered four questions that had been submitted to her prior to Convention by the LWVCT Board. In addition, further matters were brought up by League members present.

Q&A
LWVUS VP Judy Davis answers questions.

Pre-Convention...

Nicole Gelinas
League convention features Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow
Press release by Connecticut League of Women Voters

The Connecticut League of Women Voters’ 2011 State Convention, on Saturday, May 21, 2011 at The Graduate Club in New Haven, features Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Nicole Gelinas, as its guest speaker. Every 2 years delegates from local Leagues in Connecticut convene for workshops, networking, and election of state board members. This year, Ms. Gelinas will present the convention with a keynote address on the pros and cons of privatization.

Ms. Gelinas is an accomplished author and a contributing editor of City Journal, described as the nation’s premier urban policy magazine. She writes on urban economics and finance, municipal and corporate finance, and business issues. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts. Her most recent book, After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street — and Washington was published in November 2009. Commentators have called it a “standout” and “an instant classic” — one of the best analyses of the country’s 2008 financial meltdown.

Gelinas has published analysis and opinion pieces in the op-ed pages of the country’s leading publications, such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Boston Herald.

For more information, contact the League of Women Voters at 203/288-7996 or online at www.lwvct.org.

CONVENTION 2011
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
New Haven Graduate Club
155 Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06511

8:00-8:30: REGISTRATION and continental breakfast; Board members available for questions

8:30 -10:45 Morning PLENARY SESSION, Presiding: Cheryl Dunson, President, LWVCT
•    Announcements/Welcome
•    Adoption of Rules
•    Credentials Report
•    Minutes of 2009 Convention
•    President’s Report
•    Report of Nominating Committee (Presentation of Slate)
•    Presentation of Proposed Bylaws Changes: questions for clarification only
•    Presentation of CT Budget: questions for clarification only
•    PI Team Report
•    Presentation of Proposed Program: questions for clarification only

10:45-11:45 LOCAL LEAGUE NETWORKING SESSION

LUNCHEON 12:00 noon-2:00 p.m.
12:30 -1:15: Speaker: Nicole Gelinas, of the Manhattan Institute, on privatization.
1:15-1:30 Recognition of 50-year members
1:30-2:00 p.m. Awards

2:00-4:00 Afternoon PLENARY SESSION.
•    Bylaws debate and adoption
•    Budget debate and adoption
•    Program debate and adoption
•    Election of Officers and Board
•    News From National: Report by LWVUS Liaison Judy Davis
•    President’s Address/Remarks
•    Directions to the Board

Please return one copy for each registrant to LWVCT, 1890 Dixwell Avenue, suite 203, Hamden, CT 06514-3183. Checks should be made out to “LWVCT, Inc.”
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yes! I’d like to attend Convention 2011:

Name__________________________________ League______________________________

E-Mail__________________________________

Amount Enclosed ($45 for first delegate, $42 each additional attendee) $_____________

□ No one from my League can come, but we’ll permit a member in good standing of another League to represent us.

Click here to watch a C-SPAN2 presentation by our speaker (from 2009)

LWVCT CONVENTION 2007
University of New Haven, Bartels Hall
June 16, 2007

VIDEO of Convention 2007, complete version available: please e-mail LWV of Weston for more information.

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Governor wins limited approval to expand public-private partnerships
Keith M. Phaneuf, CT MIRROR
October 27, 2011

The consensus jobs bill signed into law Thursday gives the administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy the ability he sought to expand public-private partnerships on some types of state construction projects, a provision state employee unions fought to eliminate.

As a compromise, the final bill includes labor protections that unions sought in the measure enacted in special session Wednesday, then signed a day later with great fanfare. These include prevailing wage guarantees and oversight by legislative panels and the State Contracting Standards Board.

With varying degrees of enthusiasm, the governor and unions professed Thursday to be pleased with the public-private partnership language, which officials say is necessary in an era of diminishing federal dollars to leverage private capital.

Malloy said the modified language both addressed concerns of labor and leaves the state positioned to launch important capital projects.

"Quite frankly we were looking for ways to capture the power of the free market, the investing market," he said after signing the bill.

The legislation authorizes the executive branch, including quasi-public agencies, to enter into agreement with private entities to "finance, design, construct, develop, operate or maintain" certain facilities.

[Please read the rest of this article in the archives at the CT MIRROR website]