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Date: 11/16/2025
Subject: Heights Chapter E-News - TODAY! Hear the Inside Scoop on the City Councils
From: Wendy Deuring


Heights Chapter E-News -
Get the Inside Scoop on our City Councils
- Sunday, Nov 16,  2:00-4:00   Meeting with our City Council Observers. What could they possibly have to talk about?  Come find out at the Noble Road library - 2800 Noble Road  ;-)
 
Also:
-  Tuesday, Nov 18th,   7-8:30 pm,  online forum by LWVGC on "Let's Talk Taxes: Financing Public Goods and Services in Ohio." 
Come Hear the Insider Scoop on our City Councils
 
- You know we have members who attend or watch every one of our city council, school board and library board meetings.
- You know they diligently write up summaries of those meetings which you read online or in the Heights Observer.
BUT do you realize how much doesn't make it into those nice summaries written for publication?

Well, this is it! - your opportunity to hear straight from our observers what all gets left in the proverbial editor's recycle bin. If you haven't been to one of these sessions yet (we have them every six months), I think this is the one to come to.  You know that SO much has been happening in both the Cleveland Hts. and University Hts. City Councils.  Show up and get the skinny.  Even as you enjoy some snacks.  ;-)
 
To read the CH Summary before the meeting (or after) click HERE.  Hopefully the UH summary will be posted shortly.
 
This Sunday, November 16th    2-4:00   Noble Road Library  (2800 Noble Road.)
 
and bonus - you'll be done in time to watch the Browns play at 4:25 if you so choose.

Let's Talk Taxes: Financing Public Goods and Services in Ohio
 
Please join LWVGC for an online Forum on taxes in Ohio on Tuesday, November 18, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM.

Amid the flurry of property tax reform proposals and Ohio's newly adopted flat income tax,LWVGC thinks it is time to take a step back and look at how we finance public goods and services in Ohio. There is an urgent need to modernize Ohio’s tax code to be more equitable while ensuring that local communities have the resources they need to provide services for their residents including public education, public safety, health and human services, libraries; all of the things we expect of our local governments.

 

Moderator: Anna Staver, Statehouse Reporter, The Plain Dealer/cleveland.com

Presenters: Ohio Senator Louis (Bill) Blessing (R-Cincinnati area) and Zach Schiller, Research Director, Policy Matters Ohio

 

Co-sponsors: LWV Ohio, LWV Cincinnati, LWV Hudson, and LWVGC chapters Lakewood, Bay Village, Shaker Heights, Cleveland Hts.-University Hts.

The program will be recorded and the recording, along with any slides that are used, will be made available on the LWVGC YouTube channel as an educational resource for Leagues and the general public statewide.You can find our YouTube channel on our website,https://lwvgreatercleveland.org/.

 

This forum is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Register here.
Instructions for Living in a Broken World
lean into community
seek out love
applaud the good you see
keep paying attention
talk to your neighbors
dance to the music and embrace art
look for love and small joys
take breaks and relish in nourishing your body
donate what you can
linger at the dinner table with friends
check in with your people
let yourself grieve
love one another as deeply as you can
the storm is upon us and we must hold on
don’t give up, we’re here together.
 
(this was read to my yoga class. I have found it online but with various attributions. My gratitude to whomever wrote it.)
Bill of Obligations - The 10 Habits of Good Citizens
From the Card Campaign: The Constitution and Voting Rights
Some of you are aware of the "Card Campaign" which was started last year to provide informational handouts to voters. They have just issued two new cards - on our Constitutional Amendment Rights and our Voting Rights.  These cards are designed to be printed out or shared in social media.
 
MEMBERSHIP ROSTER IS HERE!
 
Going forward the directory will be updated quarterly and posted to our chapter's website at www.lwvgreatercleveland.org (and emailed to new members.)  But here is your first (in a very VERY long time) member directory.  With major credit to Janice Foster who just couldn't believe we didn't have such a thing.  Thank you Janice!
* With apologies to people who have joined this year - I have not been able to update the roster, which is a manual process.  If anyone is interested in doing a Review/Replace process, reply to this email and let me know.  Otherwise, I will hopefully have time after the upcoming elections.
Chapter Member Directory 2025-01
Links to things you might have missed:
 
 
- LWV Ohio forum on Fair Funding vs Vouchers: Understanding the K-12 Funding Tug of War  02/12/2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8VuEBf3LJ4
 
New and not-so-new member orientation program:
The program was recorded and has now been posted on our chapter home page.  If you're interested in watching the presentations you can go to www.lwvgreatercleveland.org.  You'll need to log in as a member so click in the upper right corner where it says Member Login.  (If you haven't set up your login yet, you'll get a chance to do it now.)  Then, in the top menu bar click on "Chapters" (just to the left of "About Us") and scroll down to "Cleve Hts/Univ Hts. . Then scroll down on our page past the calendar and the Observer Corp.
 
The LWVUS "Impact on Issues" book, summarizing our national positions and priorities from the 2024 National Convention is available from Amazon for the low low price of $6.99!  (It is also available online at LWV.org which is searchable but extremely long.)  LWVUS Impact on Issues
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. - John Lewis
 
No one can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all their accomplices.  Edward R Murrow, Journalist
 
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -William Wordsworth, poet (7 Apr 1770-1850)
 
All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again, and rise up.
It isn't that the evil thing wins - it never will - but that it doesn't die.  John Steinbeck
 
An inspiration from Martin Luther King (per Maya Wiley):
A man cannot be ridden if his back is not bent.
 
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. 
Thomas Jefferson
 
CHUH Chapter Leadership 
 
We are delighted to report the following list of officers for the 2024/2025 year::
Chapter Chair: Wendy Deuring  (2024-2026)
Voter Service Co-Chairs: Betsy Tracy (2023-2025)  
Membership Development Co-Chairs: Joan Spoerl (2024-2026)  Paula Goodwin (2025-2027)
Treasurer: Brenda Bagby (2024-2026)
Recording Co-Secretaries:  Robin Koslen (2024-2026)
2026 Nominating Committee: Blanche Valancy, Chair; Eefje Kolkman and Judith Beeler
 
For the Cleveland Heights City Council, the University Heights City Council, the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Board of Education and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library Board of Trustees. Watching government promotes good government: 
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