The League of Women Voters of Utah welcomes the Washington County League-at-Large (LAL). The Washington County LAL will carry out the mission of empowering voters and defending democracy in Washington community with a small but committed group of members. As the membership grows the LAL can seek to become a full league. In the meantime the League of Women Voters of Utah takes on the administrative functions, allowing Washington County LAL to focus on registering voters, getting out the vote, educating voters, having forums for your community, and growing their membership.
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Email: washingtoncounty@lwvutah.org or use the form below.
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MEETINg NOTES
March 23, 2024
Washington County LWV held a public forum on the Juvenile Justice System in Washington County. Starting from the premise that the best way to help victims of crime is to address the problems and issues that create youth offenders.
Our speakers were Colburn Winsor, a Washington County Defense Attorney and Teri Iverson from the Juvenile Justice Center. Both speakers spoke on how Utah is one of the leading states in how we deal with juvenile offenders. The programs put place to help stop recidivism and from branding kids making a bad decision from being branded as criminals.
It was an informative and enriching evening. And we are looking forward to our next general meeting on Affordable housing.
February 15, 2024
Present: Vickie Samuelson, Marcie McCleary, Rebecca Winsor, Julia Kretschmar, Kathy Biele
Legislative Action Committee Needs Washington County Participation. LAC may visit again during Interim.
LWVWC needs communications person and Secretary.
Membership and General Meeting
Tri-State League (ILO) could help membership in Tri-State area and tackle water issues.
Upcoming in-person general meeting on Juvenile Justice, Attorney (NAME) will be speaker.
Confirm: St. George Library March 23.
LWVWC working on meeting in person. Survey sent seeking preferences on how to meet. Low response. Members should find survey or contact Rebecca msbecwinsor@gmail.com to re-send.
Need flyer about League and its benefits. Vickie has copies and can get more.
Creating FAQ on Washington County LAL. - Marcie?
Appropriation for expansion of Cove Reservoir was to be removed from state budget. Conserve Southwest Utah and LWV helped save appropriation for now.
Upcoming event:
Washington County Decision Makers: Where are the Women?
Change agents at the crossroads in time
April 4, 7-8 p.m.
Boeing Auditorium, Room 121, Udvar-Hazy Building, Utah Tech University
Panel discussion - Crossroads: Change in Rural America, a nationwide program. Event sponsored by Utah Humanities. Crossroads is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and State Humanities Councils nationwide.
Crossroads: Change in Rural America offers small towns a chance to look at their own paths to highlight the changes that affected their fortunes over the past century and prompts discussions about what happened and where we are headed.
AAUW Public Policy Chair, Lisa Rutherford, will moderate the panel discussion that highlights the topic of women and leadership in our fast-growing and evolving, formerly rural, community. Panelists include AAUW member and former Chief Development Officer for Intermountain Healthcare’s Southwest Region, Kerry Kastler, and Pam Gardiol, Ivins City Planning Commissioner.
Additionally, from March 9 to April 28, a Main Street “Utah at A Crossroads Exhibition” will be shown at Silver Reef Museum (1903 Wells Fargo Drive, Leeds, UT 84746). Go to www.silverreef.org for additional information.
Membership opportunities: Offering specific tasks or events for members as well as voter registration opportunities. Organizing a watch party for a presentation on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) from LWV Utah.
Regular Meetings - second Wednesday of each month
Will update Washington County web page with general meeting information and regularly change the content. Rebecca’s contact info should be included.
Next meeting: March 13 at 5:30 p.m. MT, Event Planning and League Updates Meeting,
Upcoming events and minutes to be sent to office manager office@lwvutah.org.
Julia proposed a deadline for tasks
Event Promotion and Washington League Discussion
All 20 members of the Washington League will be invited to future meetings. Action items = links to web page and social media posts in March.
Logistics, Scheduling, and Member Engagement
Caucus meetings approaching - check https://www.lwvutah.org/ for more information
Next steps
Rebecca will send out the DEI presentation to the group
Vickie to print and distribute flyers, send minutes to office manager
Send out meeting invites to all members of LWVWC