Upcoming Board Meetings

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 7 p.m.

Monday, March 5, 2012 - 7 p.m.

All meetings at Lucile Spurlock's home

Co-Sponsored Forum - The Grand Boulevard Initiative - Thursday - January 26, 2012 - 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Co-Sponsors - Greenbelt Alliance, Samtrans, Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce and the LWVSSMC

Menlo Park Presbyterian Church - Social Hall

700B Santa Cruz Ave., in downtown Menlo Park

Please RSVP at http://www.greenbelt.org and click on Events Calendar

Agenda

6:00 pm Open House

6:30 pm Welcome by Menlo Park Mayor Kirsten Keith

6:40 pm Introduction to Healthy Communities and the Grand Boulevard Initiative Guiding Principles by Jean Fraser, Chief of the San Mateo County Health System

7:00 pm A Presentation on Green Transportation and Connectivity by Jessica Ter Schure, Principal of Nelson\Nygaard

7:30 pm Q & A Panel Discussion

7:50 pm Group Discussions

8:15 pm Closing Comments

8:30 pm Meeting Ends

This program is an open forum on the Grand Boulevard Initiative as it may apply in Menlo Park. The program will address the past and present development of El Camino Real as an urban/suburban boulevard throughout San Mateo County.

Our League's committee on Climate Change and Local Issues has a special interest in the ways future development in the El Camino Corridor may fit with SB375 for the Bay Area. The Bay Area is one of the "MPO" (Metropolitan Planning Organizations) units in California that are submitting Sustainable Community Strategies to the California Air Resources Board in compliance with SB375 (Steinberg), passed in 2008 as a land use planning element in helping to meet the targets of AB32 (2006) which is the state's Global Warming Solutions Act.

Contact: Patty Boyle, co-chair, with Evan Hughes, of our committee on Climate Change and Local issues, at 854-4046 or p.boyle@comcast.net.

Join us and bring a friend ! This co-sponsored forum is open to all !

Bay Area League Day - Saturday, February 4, 2012 - Oakland - 9 am to 2 pm

Housing and the Bay Area's Future

First Unitarian Church of Oakland

685 14th Street at Clay, Oakland

Keynote speaker: David Rosen, a leading expert in the field of affordable housing finance, policy, land use, lending and investment strategic planning.

There will also be panels of experts on these topics:

- Meeting regional housing needs in light of the sustainable communities' strategy

- Difficulties of financing affordable housing

- How to serve the hardest to house

- Implementation of SB 375

- Sources and uses of public money

- Difficulties of community support

There will be plenty of time for questions from the audience during each panel.

Cost: In advance: $30 ($15 without lunch); at the door $35 ($20 without lunch).

Registration: Please write a check payable to "LWVBA" and mail, including your name and any guest names, to LWVBA, 1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 300, Oakland, CA 94612.

Registration is also available online through January 27 via PayPal at http://www.lwvbayarea.org.

For more details, call (510) 839-1608 or send an email to editor@bayareamonitor.org

County League Day - Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 9:30 a.m. - Noon

Alpine Hills Tennis and Swimming Club

4139 Alpine Rd., Portola Valley
2.3 miles west of the 280 at the Alpine Road exit

Wanda Ginner and Joyce Tavrow, League members who are on the statewide committee to organize the Initiative and Referendum Study will speak.

Also, this is the annual meeting to discuss and approve the year's positions and priorities at the county level.

For information or help with transportation contact: Ellen Hope, ellenjhope@aol.com, (650) 839-8647

LWV Northern California Regional Meeting - Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Martin Luther King Jr. Main Library

150 East San Fernando Street (at 4th Street), in downtown San Jose

LWV - State Regional Workshop on upcoming activities at the League's State and National levels:

- The California State Budget - Speaker: Helen Hutchinson
- The 2012 Elections - Speaker: Lianne Campodonico
- Local Participation in the National "Privatization" Study

Cathy Lazarus from Mountain View/Los Altos will moderate panel with Jane Light, San Jose Librarian who'll talk about trend to privatize libraries and (tentatively) John Tang, government relations person from San Jose Water to talk about benefits of privatization.

For more information regarding this meeting, please contact:

Gloria Chun Hoo President, LWV San Jose-Santa Clara glocalifornia@yahoo.com

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