Last Updated August 12, 2010
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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS -
Cuyahoga Area,
Heights Chapter
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New County
Government
The Cuyahoga County Board of
Elections advises voters to prepare for the historic September 7, 2010
Primary Election by becoming familiar with the new county government
system. For the first time, voters will cast ballots for Partisan
Candidates running for 11 County Council
District seats and County Executive.
All Cuyahoga County voters now live in one of the new districts and
should become familiar with its boundaries. Maps are available on the
Board of Elections website:
http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/countycouncildistrictmaps.aspx.
The winning Primary Election candidates from each party and Independent
Candidates will be on the November 2, 2010 General Election ballot.
The
Cuyahoga County Board of Elections Web page has other useful tools:
Check your
registration
Precinct-by-precinct
sample
ballots
Don't know your precinct or voting
location? Here
you
are
Absentee/vote by mail information
Optical scan ballot instructions
Unable to display pdf files? The
Adobe Reader is a free
download
The
Cleveland Plain Dealer has an online voter guide. It
incorporates the "sample ballot" concept, but provides extensive
supplemental information - candidate biographies and candidate
responses to questions.
A League of Women Voters (LWV) Cuyahoga
Area
blog
page has links to Web sites concerning the transition to a new
county government
structure.
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Regionalism - Efforts extending
beyond Cuyahoga County
The Northeast Ohio "Regional
Prosperity Initiative" (www.neo-rpi.org)
has
produced
detailed
interim
reports
and
final
to-do
lists
on
a
16-county
plan
for
regional
land use planning and "New Growth Tax-base
Sharing." The latter proposal is expected out in its final form
by late March.
The "Ohio Commission on Local Government Reform and Collaboration" (www.ohioreformandcollaboration.org)
is
working
hard
to
craft
legislative
carrots
and/or
sticks
to
make
these
and
other
collaborations
more advantageous and achievable
statewide.
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The LWV Cuyahoga
Area Web
site is a good source
of information about current issues and upcoming events. For
example, the
Cleveland Plain Dealer (May 26, 2009, page B1) noted the publication of
the new pamphlet
relevant to county government reform, "Citizen Guide to Cuyahoga County
Government: Past,
Present, Future". Click here
to download the pamphlet as a 13-page pdf-format file.
At the same Web site can be found links to the LWV
Ohio
brochure,
"The
Sunshine
Law:
Ohio's
Open
Meetings
Act", and an LWV study and
position on the Cleveland-Cuyahoga
County Port
Authority (CCCPA).
If you have and/or use an Internet news reader, you can go here
to set up automatic reception of LWV Cuyahoga Area announcements
Unable to display pdf files? The
Adobe Reader is a free
download.
Join the Heights Chapter of LWV Cuyahoga Area
If you are interested in the
League and our Heights Chapter, join the LWV Cuyahoga Area at http://www.lwvcuyahogaarea.org/about/join.html
and indicate your interest to
affiliate with the Heights Chapter.
If you need more information, feel
free to contact the Heights chapter contact of LWV Cuyahoga Area:
Maryann Barnes,
mbarnes9515@gmail.com
216 321-7525
Heights Chapter listservs
You do not need to be a member to subscribe to our chapter’s
emailing lists. We encourage you to do so to learn about our
activities. You can find and join two listservs for the Heights Chapter
by searching Google Groups with “lwv chuh” as keywords, or click on the
links below:
Notices list:
Receive meeting notices for the Heights Chapter, LWV action
alerts, and postings of volunteer opportunities; subscribe to LWV CHUH notices.
Observer reports:
Receive observer
reports of
public meetings of the
city councils of Cleveland Heights and
University Heights, the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Board of
Education, and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library
Board. These reports are also summarized
regularly in the Heights
Observer. To receive
the full reports by email, subscribe
to the LWV CHUH Observer
reports.
KNOW YOUR LEAGUE
OTHER LEAGUE HOME PAGES:
Heights Chapter Study:
Get
to know CH-UH Schools: http://chuh.net/lwv/s-a
- How To access
buildings, get the current news on events
- Compare 1970 and 2000,
finances to achievement to attendance
Useful Links:
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National On-Line League Voters' Guides:
Smart Voter: Ohio and National
Democracy Network
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Courts and the Law:
The Cleveland Law
Library (http://www.clevelandlawlibrary.org)
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Parliamentary Procedure for your meetings?
Robert's Rules of Order:
http://www.constitution.org/rror/rror--00.htm
provided by the Constitution
Society
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ELECTORAL COLLEGE (How it Works):
http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecmenu2.htm
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FOUNDING DOCUMENTS OF AMERICAN
DEMOCRACY: