President’s Letter August 2021

President’s Letter August 2021

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Dear League Members and Friends:

At our June 25 Annual Meeting, LWV Diablo Valley established a unique, new structure for our Board of Directors leadership. Instead of a single individual serving as Board President, we will operate with a group we are calling "Monthly Presidents" or MPs for short. This group of six will take an individual rotation as president during the year 2021-2022.  The rotation will look like this:
  • July - Ann Flynn (that's why I'm writing this today)
  • August/September - Mary Schreiber
  • October/November - Melanie Speir (with assists from Anne Granlund & Peggy Huston)
  • December /January - Shawn Gilbert
  • February/March - Janet Hoy
  • April - Cathleen Kirk
  • May/June - Ann Flynn again (This will end the year with our next Annual Meeting.)

Your leadership team has been planning how to operate with a novel leadership structure as we move ahead with League programs and projects. We know change is on the menu these days. The California Governor Recall Election has been scheduled for September 14, and we will continue our work in registering new voters, providing voting information, and doing what we can to prepare for a free and fair election. Our Community Conversations public programs will start up again in September after a summer break, and the first program will be on Wildfires.

Your Board met in July, for our first in-person meeting in a year-and-a-half. While it was good to see everyone in person, we are aware of the Covid-19 public health crisis. We will continue to hold all of our meetings (committees, Board, and public programming) virtually for the time being. Our hope is to be able to meet and mingle again one day, but that isn't today.

We are continuing our outward-facing work with teams serving communications, public programs, observer corps, voter services and more. If you want more information on how to participate, we are always on the lookout for volunteers. Email us at lwvdv [at] lwvdv.org">lwvdv [at] lwvdv.org or call us at 925-283-2235.

If you have a question for the President, just send an email to president [at] lwvdv.org and it will be routed to the appropriate leader. We hope you will never know who is at the helm, as the LWVDV ship continues sailing forward.

Yours in League,

Ann

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