10:00 AM

Welcome & Call to Order, Changes/Additions to Agenda

Lyn Widmyer

Approval of minutes

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Co-Presidents’ Reports

• Signed on to LWVUS statement regarding DHS plan to consolidate sensitive personal data across federal agencies

• Death of Nancy Novak, former president of LWVWV, longtime member of the Board, & lifetime member of the League

Lyn Widmyer

Judy Ball

Treasurer’s Report

• Treasurer’s Report <-- INSERT LINK

• Ron Widmyer volunteered to serve on audit committee for LWVWV.

• Still need League members to serve on the board of LWV Trust.

• LWVWV rejected offer for Lobby Corps Grant from LWVUS.

• Approval needed to transfer up to $4000 from CD that is maturing soon to cover budget items.

Teresa

Lyn/Judy

10:20 a.m.

New Business

Preparing for 2026 election season

• VOTE411

• Voter education on new photo ID law

• Any local Leagues planning candidate forums?

• Approval needed for funds to support outreach to voters & legislators (partnership with Delta Sigma Theta)

Autumn

Lyn

Judy

Other Board members

Legislative Day

• Approval needed for contribution to Delta Sigma Theta toward their cost of Black Policy Day at Legislature in February.

• We will join them & have a table with LWV info.

Lyn

LLAW — Preparing for Jan 2026 Legislature

• Activated FastDemocracy Pro subscription (with Teresa’s help).  Training just for LLAW scheduled for Dec 19.

• No suggested changes to 2024 Legislative Priorities were received, so priorities will remain the same.

• Completed testing Claude AI platform for help with the heavy lifting in manual bill review.  Full test across 2460 bills from 2025.

• Claude is excellent at translating bills into LWVWV positions.

• Claude improved immensely in filtering bills based on keywords into 4 priority buckets.

• Claude resource constraints issue will be addressed by using a portion of LLAW budget to fund Claude Pro subscription only for duration of Legislature’s term.

• Request to brief Morgantown NOW on LLAW, Jan 13.

• Del. Evan Hansen will introduce nonpartisan bills supported by LLAW.  We set the following priorities:

• Current WV law permits voters who request assistance due a disability to have that disability challenged.  These provisions should be repealed.  (Talking points on this policy issue.)

• Bill to codify procedures for redistricting in WV,  HB 2415 in 2025, will be re-introduced.

• Our bill to modernize election procedures, HB 2447 in 2025, will not be re-introduced this session.  We may come back in a future session.

Judy

Establish meeting schedule for CY 2026

• Move that the Board meet the third Saturday, every other month

• Jan 22

• Mar 15

• May 17

• Jul 19

• Sep 20

• Nov 15

Lyn

Judy

Highlights of LWVUS Leader meetings

• LWVUS has a new regional organizing model.  https://www.lwv.org/league-management/advocacy-litigation/lwvs-organizing-model

• Each state assigned to a region with a coordinator.

• Region 2:  West Virginia & District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia.

• Still early days, but notable frustration at LWVUS lack of support for fostering communication between & among state leaders.

Lyn

Judy

11:20 a.m.

Unfinished Business

• Amicus brief filed with WV Supreme Court of Appeals to support WV Board of Education challenge to WV state legislature having final authority over rules & regulations.

• Judy interviewed on MetroNews TV — ScreenRecording_11-03-2025 10-46-23_1.mp4

• Brief was topic of LWVMM Substack — The will of the people must be respected — Nov 30, 2025

Lyn

Judy

• Continuing partnership with Delta Sigma Theta (EPAC) to promote importance of voting.

• Priority:  voter turnout

• Postcards to be mailed

• LWVWV will co-sponsor webinar

Lyn

Judy

• Vacancies on state Board still unfilled; Huntington not represented

Lyn

Local League Reports

✦ Huntington Area

✦ Jefferson County

• Annual membership meeting, Dec 9

• Death of Alice Barkus, longtime LWV member

Lyn

✦ Morgantown-Monongalia County

• Substack update.  119 subscribers as of Dec 6.  LWVMorgantown.substack.com

• Updated flyers for voter events — for any local League to use:

• Voter Registration Event

• Student Voters

• Photo ID

• Absentee Ballots

• T-shirts!  Ordering deadline is Dec 31.

• Instructions → 2025-12-05 email T-shirt order.pdf

• Order form with images → voters shirts.docx

Judy

For the good of the order

Noon

ADJOURN

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