[Southern California Permaculture] TODAY/League of Women Voters Monthly Forum/District Elections?

[Margie Bushman, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

these are excellent forums to educate ourselves & community, offered 
once a month by the LWV, take advantage!


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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
OF SANTA BARBARA
http://www.lwvsantabarbara.org/

Will the City of Santa Barbara Return to District Elections?

Wednesday, Jan. 21

League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara Community Forum; noon-2 p.m.,

Louise Lowry Davis Center, 1232 De La Vina St.



"Will the City of Santa Barbara Return to District Elections?" That's 
the question that will be asked Jan. 21 when the League holds the 
first public discussion on the controversy of district versus at-large voting.



Speakers will be: Ariel Calonne, Santa Barbara City Attorney; Shane 
Stark, former Santa Barbara County Counsel and president of the LWVSB 
Education Fund; Sheila Lodge, former Mayor of Santa Barbara, and 
Jacqueline Inda, one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to 
overturn the city's current at-large voting system.



Calonne will talk about the effect of the lawsuit on the city, while 
Stark will give an overview of the California Voting Rights Act and 
how it impacts cities. Lodge, who is also a former LWVSB President 
and life member, will speak on the merits of at-large elections. Inda 
will discuss the reasons for the suit against the city and why she 
supports district elections.



There will be time for questions, and the League's April Unit 
meetings will continue this discussion of district versus at-large 
voting. The Santa Barbara City Council has decided to put the 
question of district elections on the November 2015 ballot. The 
council is scheduled to talk about the process of redistricting at 
its council meeting on Jan. 27.



LWVSB is now engaged in a local study on whether to change its 
position, adopted in 1968, in favor of at-large elections. Such a 
change in position would be made by consensus at the League's annual 
meeting in June.



But by then the courts may have decided the issue. The lawsuit 
against the city will be heard by Judge Donna Geck in April.


Related Article in Noozhawk:
http://www.noozhawk.com/article/league_of_women_voters_forum_on_proposed_district_elections




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