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LOCAL PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS, 2000 to present

Regular annual LWV events such as voter registration drives, most candidates' forums, and legislature previews and wrap-ups are not shown, nor are the national and state study and action items which were concurrent with these local issues.

1948-1975
1975-1990
1990-2000
2000 - 2001 Stacey Eaton, President
LWV/LA hosted the LWVNM Council in July, after Cerro Grande Fire required postponement from the original May date.
Held candidates forums for the November election to the County Council, Senate, and Hous and for the School Board and UNM/LA election.
Judith Schlosser and Steve Tobin spoke on affordable housing to a membership meeting.
Lunch with a Leader speakers included Kevin Holsapple on the Downtown Plan and Helga Christopherson on LANL Child Care.
Denise Lamb and Nita Taylor spoke to Annual Meeting about "The Election Process in NM"
2001 - 2002 Rebecca Shankland, President
Unit meeting on proposed new LWVUS trade position, resulting in movement to amend this position at LWVUS convention in Miami.
Who's in Charge was published by Los Alamos Monitor in tabloid form (Calef and Godfrey.)
Forums included Moises Gonzales on regional sustainability, a panel discussion on LANL child care initiatives (or lack thereof), and a panel discussion on affordable housing co- sponsored with 1000 Friends of New Mexico. Lunch with a Leader programs featured Laura Crotzer of LA School Board, Susan Herrera of LANL Foundation, Carl Moore, leader of the Comprehensive Plan vision effort, Jill Trewhella from LANL on biowarfare, and Kathy Campbell on her trip to Cuba
Unit meetings on campaign finance reform, drug policy reform, and NM school governance.
A trip to Santa Fe to see their affordable housing projects.
Candidates workshop called "Running and Surviving" with speakers Diane Albert, Robert Gibson, Bettylou Lebeda Elaine Morris, Sharon Stover, and Ken Milder
Responded to the Main Street Future Downtown Plan in writing and at P & Z hearings. Many League members participated in meetings to formulate the Comprehensive Plan Vision Statement.
2002 - 2003 Rebecca Shankland, President
A candidates forum in Española was run by Jeffrey Howell, Diane Albert, and Becky Shankland
At LWVUS national convention, Shankland, Campbell, Calef, and Gordon led caucuses and floor discussion on our proposed trade amendments; they reached the floor but failed to pass.
LWVLA won a LANL Foundation grant to assist child-care workers with education expenses
Sponsored a Candidates Fair for County candidates. In addition the League ran four more Council candidates forums on specific areas of the Vision Statement together with other organizations, as well as a candidates forum for School Board and UNM/LA election.
Monitored the development of the Comprehensive Plan with many Leaguers sitting on committees that wrote the action statements growing out of the Vision Statement.
Lunch with a Leader hosted Gayle Gerdes talking about the Concord Coalition, Greg Partamian, the new hospital administrator, and JJ Maier discussing regional transportation.
A NM Voters Guide was published free by the Los Alamos Monitor; committee chaired by Adele Hopkins.
The Sustainability Committee organized an Economic Development Workshop in Española. Participants included Don Bustos of Santa Cruz Farms, Barbara Deaux of N. Central NM Economic Developoment District, Moises Gonzales of Mexicano Land Education and Conservation Trust, Esther Kovari of NM Farmers Marketing Association, Ben Luce of NM Solar Energy Association, Larry Roybal of US Forest Service, Bill Wadt from LANL, and Alvin Warren of Santa Clara Pueblo.
Unit meeting on NM Economic Development position.
Sponsored two forums preceding the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Legislative preview including Rep. Wallace and speakers on specific issues (transportation, economics, energy.)
Annual meeting featured a panel of speakers on regional water issues.
2003 - 2004 Barbara Calef, President
Sustainability: Held forums on water, green economics, food security, alternative energy solutions, and green building. Hosted a series of discussions of Herman Daly's Beyond Growth.
Civil Liberties: Held a forum on the impact of the Patriot Act on the community with pnelists from the library, police, bank, U.S. attrorney's office and Los Alamos Monitor. Sponsored a talk by Congressman Udall on the Patriot Act. Helped draft the Resolution on the Patriot Act that was adopted by the County Council.
Local Government: Action protesting lack of transparency in dealing with the Downtown Plan let to the appointment of a Citizens' Review Panel.
Voters' Services: Held a forum on the proposed constitutional amendments on educational issues. The Legislative preview featured Jeannette Wallace and Craig O'Hare. Held a workshop on "Lobbying from Your Living Room". Several members helped lobby with the LWVNM Action Committee.
Voting: Formed a voting committee to study voting issues including the rise of the direct electronic voting machine. Petitioned LWVUS to stop lobbying in favor of DREs. Members of the committee helped convince the County Council not to approve the purchase of DREs by the County Clerk.
Lunch with a Leader hosted Rep. Jeannette Wallace, Aretha Ferrell-Brown (new assistant county administrator), and Kim Kiel (socially responsible investing). Donna Dreska, new county administrator, spoke at an evening membership meeting. The annual meeting speaker was Stan Euston on the NM renewable energy campaign.
Created LWVLA website.
2004 - 2005 Barbara Calef, President
Sustainability: Participated in the New Mexico First Town Hall on creating a sustainable economy in Los Alamos. Sponsored a talk about Smart Growth by Chris Leinberger. Produced "The People Speak: Prosperity and Globalization", for which we received a grant from the United Nations Foundation, followed up with a talk by Julia Demichelis. Developed and taught the course "Sustainable Solutions in an Overused World" at UNM/LA.
Local Government: Observed the rewriting of the Comprehensive Plan Policy document. Participated in stakeholders' meetings to discuss solid waste issues. Hosted the annual legislative preview in January.
Voters' Services: Held the first pre-primary candidates forum as well as candidates forums for the local candidates for the general election in November and for school board and UNM advisory board candidates in February.
Voting: Worked at the National Convention to reverse the LWVUS position opposing voter-verified paper ballots. Hosted a talk by Charlie Strauss about electronic voting. Supported legislation to require recountable ballots and random recounts.
Hosted a visit from members of the Torreon Chapter of the Navajo. Hosted the biannual LWVNM Council meeting.
Lunch with a Leader hosted Kathy Guidry of the NM Community Advisory Board, Fred Nathan of Think New Mexico, Claire Swanger of the NM Land Conservation Trust and Jill Cook of LANB. We also cosponsored a showing of the video The End of Suburbia
2005 - 2006 Katherine Campbell, President
Forum for the bond issue election for the Civic Center in August 2005.
Legislative preview in January 2006.
First of two Town Halls on the structure of local government, March 2006.
The League also sponsored presentation by Councilor Mike Wismer of his work in Iraq; cosponsored, with the Coalition for LANL Excellence, a forum on the RFP to manage the Laboratory; and cosponsored Colombian author Fernando Garavito as part of the Mesa Public Library's Authors Speak series.
Two unit meetings considered proposed LWVNM positions on the abolition of the death penalty and on sustainability.
Lunch with a Leader continued with a full program, including Kevin Holsapple (LACDC), Rebecca Collingsworth (archivist for the Los Alamos Historical Society), Jennifer Neal (Case Mesita), Alan Kirk (municipal judge), Judith Schlosser (affordable housing), Cathy Pannel (LARC) and Linda Moscarella (former LWVUS board member, speaking on instant runoff voting).
The annual meeting in April 2006 included a panel discussion of affordable housing with Ann Norton of the Housing Partnership, local developers Sid Singer and Stan Primak, green builder Steve Huebner, and Steve Brugger, the new affordable housing director for the County (replacing Judith Schlosser.)
2006 - 2007 Katherine Campbell, President