- Message to Members November 2024
—2024 League November news Hello Members, Please remember to vote today if you haven’t already. Exercise your right and make your voice heard. We are working on our website and updating the information there, but meanwhile, here’s what’s happening with your League. We had a serious discussion about the future of the League in Melrose…
- Meeting Minutes October, 2024
—LWV of Melrose Meeting Minutes Time: Oct 29, 2024 07:30 PM Eastern Time Place:Zoom Meeting Attendees: Susan Baron, Heather Doyle, Julie DeLillo, Mary Landergan, Karen Smolens, Maureen Elia, Gail Infurna, Janine Vanuti, Joyce Zeiner, Anne DeSouza Ward Review of August 2024 meeting minutes Meeting minutes reviewed and unanimously approved. Congratulations to Mary- Catherine Mahoney, a…
- Report of Steering Committee June 2023-June 2024
—June 2023: At our Annual Meeting, we voted to maintain our Non-Partisanship Policy as is, and approved the 2024 Budget as proposed. As our fiscal year is the calendar year, the proposed budget reflects anticipated income and expenses for the remainder of 2023, and a proposed budget for 2024. August 2023: We sponsored a table…
- Annual Meeting Minutes July 2024
—League of Women Voters of Melrose Annual Meeting was held on July 9, 2024 as a virtual meeting via Zoom. Call to Order Review and Adopt Nonpartisan policy (annual requirement) Read and approved the Nonpartisan policy. Unanimously adopted. Review and Adopt updated DEI language required by LWVUS After reading and discussion, approved unanimously. Report of…
- Report of Steering Committee June 2022-June 2023
—At our Annual Meeting, we voted to maintain our Non-Partisanship Policy as is, and approved the 2022-2023 Budget as proposed. As our fiscal year is the calendar year (since June 2021), the Budget is approved in June for the coming year, despite not having completed the current year. Consequently, the proposed budget that was approved…
- Annual Meeting Minutes June 2023
—League of Women Voters of Melrose: Annual Meeting was held on June 13, 2023 at the conference room of Eastern Bank, Main Street, Melrose. 6 pm Meeting with Mayor: We spent the first 45 minutes of Annual Meeting talking with the Mayor about the state of the City and his thoughts on the challenges for…
- November 2022
—The Annual Meeting was held virtually on June 13, 2022. For a full report of the meeting, please see the Annual Meeting Minutes under POSTS. The Steering Committee met in September and October 2022 and is working on promulgating information for voters in anticipation of the elections this year. We shared with Melrose High School…
- Annual Meeting Minutes June 2022
—League of Women Voters of Melrose Annual Meeting Date/Time: June 13,2022 7:00 pm Location: Zoom Attendees: Susan Baron, June Cuttino, Heather Doyle, Maureen Elia, Sister Stephanie Hayman, Gail Infurna, Mary Beth Margolis, Gayle Peterson, Anne DeSouza-Ward, Joyce Zeiner Call to Order Review and Adopt Nonpartisan policy (annual requirement) Anne read our Nonpartisan policy Motion to…
- JUNE 2021 to MAY 2022 continued…
—Rank Choice Voting Presentation Keith Lovett joined out November 15th Steering Committee Meeting to discuss Rank Choice Voting (RCV). Keith presented a compelling argument to move to RCV since this would allow people to vote for candidates they truly support; not just candidates they think have a better chance at election. This supports a LWVMA…
- NOVEMBER 2021
—Greetings, It’s been a busy fall for the League as we navigate the usual fall activities and election season in a changed world. We had our usual booth at the Victorian Fair and we registered some voters and spoke with a lot of folks about election season and local issues. It was a pleasure to…
