LWVWV BOARD AGENDA - DEC 13, 2025 REVISED – 12/6/2025, 12/7/2025, 12/8/2025
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10:00 AM | Welcome & Call to Order, Changes/Additions to Agenda | Lyn Widmyer |
| Approval of minutes | |
| 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 | Teresa
Lyn/Judy
Julie/Autumn |
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.
- Adopt suggested changes to 2024 Legislative Priorities:
- 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 These provisions should be repealed.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. It may come back in a future session.
- Comments submitted Dec 8 — 2025 - Data center rules
| 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.
- 2025-12-10 - LWVUS State Leaders Call.pdf
| 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:
- T-shirts! Ordering deadline is Dec 31.
| Judy |
| For the good of the order | |
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Noon | ADJOURN | |
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