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New Rochelle LWV Cable Show Line-Up: Commissioner of Development Luiz C. Aragon and Environmental Educator Ellen Weininger

“City People and Issues,” the cable television program produced by the League of Women Voters of New Rochelle, focuses on city planning, health and the environment in two new programs --one with new New Rochelle Commissioner of Development Luiz Aragon and another with health and environment educator Ellen Weininger The interviews rotate weekly on Cablevision Channel 76, on Mondays at 7 p.m. and Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9:30 p.m.

During the weeks of May 6 and May 20, Weininger, education outreach coordinator for Grassroots Environmental in an interview with Haina Just-Michael, talks about harmful environmental exposures and how to avoid them.

During the weeks of May 13 and May 27, Aragon, who arrived in New Rochelle in February, talks about his background, the importance of citizen involvement in planning, and waterfront and downtown development. He is interviewed by Ina Aronow.

Programs are recorded in the NRTV studio in City Hall. For further information, call 636-6271.

Running and Winning Forum

Four young women from New Rochelle High School participated in the LWV Westchester forum Running and Winning, a workshop aimed at increasing the number of women who aspire to run for elected office. The 4 women pictured, left to right, are Nicole Giuliani, Mackenzie Lipman, Ghipsel Cibrian, and Simone Wein.

The seniors were among 28 students county wide who heard Madeleine M. Kunin, the first woman governor of Vermont, and a dozen local elected women officials encourage them to run for public office some day. The officials argued that a woman’s perspective was essential and that running for office locally was the most effective way to make changes to improve their community. The teens then broke into groups to plan their own political campaigns.

The students were chosen by their teachers as potential leaders who would benefit from the day long program, “Running and Winning,” sponsored recently by the League of Women Voters of Westchester, the American Association of University Women, and the White Plains YWCA, with generous funding from the Westchester Community Foundation and the Kalyan Sundaram Foundation.

Students in Albany 2012

Ben Helfand, left, and A.J. Barbaria, New Rochelle High School seniors were sponsored by the New Rochelle LWV to attend the 2012 Students Inside Albany Conference in March. .

They were among 54 high school students throughout the state who participated in the intensive four day training experience designed to immerse students in the process by which public policy is proposed, enacted and changed in the New York State and give them the tools they can use to influence and affect this process.

While in Albany, the students heard from a variety of speakers including elected officials, journalists, good government organizations, and LWV experts, who spoke on varying topics from lobbying to an overview of NYS government, and from transparency in government to the role of media in politics, and much more.

CALENDAR

Cable TV interviews See dates and details at left.

Thurs. May 30 LWV of NR Annual Dinner Meeting with Chris Coleman, director of the United Nations Civilian Capacity Project, talking on “Resolving Conflicts through Political Inclusion” 6:30 pm at the Modern Restaurant, 310 Huguenot Street, New Rochelle. The public is welcome.  For reservations, please send a check made out to LWVNR for $35 to Joan Alexander, 373 Stratton Road, New Rochelle, NY 10804. For information call Joan at 914-715-3916 or e-mail Monica Grey at mwgrey@aol.com. Download flyer.

LWV Forum on Need for Fair Property Tax Assessments can be Viewed on Web

Officials from New York state, Westchester County, and five local municipal officials, speaking at a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Westchester and LWV of New Rochelle on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 in New Rochelle discussed the importance of and difficulties in keeping local property valuations up-to-date in order to fairly distribute the property tax burden.

To see the entire panel discussion, including responses to audience questions, click here. This video will be available through June 20.

Panelists included John Wolham, Regional Director, Southern Region, New York State Office of Real Property Tax Services and George Oros, Chief of Staff to County Executive Rob Astorino.
Other panelists, all from municipalities that have or are planning to reassess, were Michèle Casandra, Pelham Town Assessor; Harold Porr III, Bronxville Administrator/Clerk; Mitchell Markowitz, Rye Town Assessor; Mark Russell, Yonkers Assessor; Edye McCarthy, Greenburgh Assessor. Charles B. Strome III, New Rochelle City Manager, welcomed the panelists and audience, and Sharon Lindsay, LWV of Westchester president, was moderator.

Fri. Apr. 12 Coffee and Conversation with State Senator Adrea Stewart-Cousins

Your Home, Your Health, Your Taxes, Your Vote

Video on  protecting our drinking water and recreational waterways from the dangers of pollution. A copy of the video and written materials was distributed to every Westchester public library. For info on the video contact Westchester LWV