
From the Town of Weston website
VALLEY FORGE ROAD REPAIR/CLOSURE NEWS
The League of Women Voters® of Weston, Connecticut, presents ...
a "Community Conversation" on "Local News, Community, and Democracy"
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A distinguished panel of three long-time League members having extensive professional
journalism and communications experience presents and discusses results of recent research
on the state of independent local news coverage and its future.
Panelists are Dr. Tom Failla, Kathleen Failla, and Laura Smits.
Held November 16, 2019, at the Weston Public Library, Weston, Connecticut.
TOWN PLAN UPDATE NEWS:
Planning & Zoning, December 9, 2019, 7:15pm Town Hall Annex.
First open discussion of "POCD" Draft which presumably only P&Z and
selected entities such
as Conservation and others who contributed to it have seen...will it be available to the public?
When? NOT YET. But final draft is to be approved at January 2, 2020 P&Z meeting - and
sent to Selectmen and the 65 day clock begins for public comment and then a Public Hearing
takes place.
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Previously...

Town-wide Workshop #1, September 9, 2019 - participate until 9-17-19 here
Master Plan for Town Center.
WestonLWV
(CT) :
Click on
voter services to go to the story of Election 2019 &
WESTON LWV VOTERS GUIDE 2019
CONTACT
US
OFFICIAL NEWS OF PLAN UPDATE
Joan Lewis photograph
TOWN PLAN UPDATE...Observer Corps:
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2019 Annual Meeting held in...Weston Town Center!
WestonLWV SPEAK UP 2020,
coming February 8th!
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ADDITIONAL COVERAGE HERE
Link to post-election
statutorily required report from O.F.A.
and O.P.M.
CT FISCAL CHALLENGES PROGRAM: League program over but the
problem remains.
Link to "picture
story & video" - video is also
shown below - Weston LWV event.
NEW from CT MIRROR:
https://ctmirror.org/2019/05/16/lamonts-pension-shift-would-leave-cts-children-deep-in-debt/
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here to join the LWV of Weston, CT. and/or
Click here to make a
tax-deductable donation to LWV Ed Fund
What's going on at P&Z? Board of
Selectmen? Ask League Observer here.
VIMEO OF SELECTMEN'S MEETINGS
Town Plan update - follow the
OBSERVER CORPS...
In Weston, budget-making
time for FY'21 coming - see what happened in FY'20!

Annotated index below
LWV
of WESTON :
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Town of Weston; State LWV, LWVUS. Want to be in the know? LWV
Weston membership.
T H E L E A G U
E O P E R A T E
S A T
T H R E E L E V E L S
February 9, 2019, 10:30am to 12 noon at Weston Library
SPEAK UP 2019:
February 3, 2018, 10:30am to 12 noon at Weston Library
SPEAK
UP 2018:
Please find previous Speak Up
video here.
LWV of
Weston ELECTION 2018 and RESULTS page here.
Steering Committee
NOT current: NEW page in the works...coming in the Fall.
REGIONAL LAND USE
For Legislative proposals for
regional land use matters: NEW TASK FORCE.
Table
of Contents to even more archived Weston
LWV activities!
LWVof
Weston 27th "Speak Up" video!
"Speak Up 2018" ran on the Town TV at
10a.m. daily for weeks...please read
Weston-Today
follow-up story here.
The
27th annual Speak Up is over. Big crowd!
Both on stage and in the audience!
Topics with more than one question/discussion about
them:
1. taxes; 2.
sustainability/environment/planning 3.
education and special ed...
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here to join the LWV of Weston, CT. and/or
Click here to make
a tax-deductable donation
What the LWV of WESTON has done
previously...SOUND INTERESTING? JOIN US!!!
" L E G
I S L A T I V E W R A P - U P
" P I C T U R E S T O
R Y
WATCH LWV
of Weston "LEGISLATIVE WRAP UP" on Channel 79
("WGTV") at 10am every day
and get the information re: answer to the last
question about Amazon
here.
League of Women
Voters of Weston "Legislative Wrap
Up" Saturday, September 16, 2017
BUDGET PROCESS
How
can towns plan for the coming year without knowledge
of what CT funds will be available, Weston asks
Legislators?
THE
NORFIELD RED OAK DECISION
"Work is expected to commence December 27th and
end on December 29th on the oak tree at the corner
of Norfield Road and Norfield Farm Lane. It is
expected that there will be delays and possible
closures
on Norfield Road to allow for work to be done
safely." From Tree Warden, Town of Weston
website

Tri-Board Meeting on Governor's Budget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFzXzhcmAHU
Governor's Budget Proposals by town graphic from CT
Mirror:
http://ctmirror.org/2017/02/08/see-how-your-town-fares-in-the-governors-proposed-budget/
"S P E A K U P
2 0 1 7"
Topics were Hartford
melt down, P&Z Town Plan update, D.C. direction
from all sides, and others.

LWV
of Weston "PICTURE STORY" of 2015 three debates in one
Saturday morning plus lunch...
Read Weston FORUM print edition
front page story Oct. 22 for reporter's wrap up
and highlights!!!
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Weston's "DNA"
series of discussion or "Community Conversations"

CONVERSATION
#3: LWV of Weston
explores farming heritage.

CONVERSATION#2:
LWV of Weston program on Weston's Natural
Resources over...

CONVERSATION
#1: LWV of Weston plan of development update
program over...
The League of Women Voters of
Weston hosted an update of the Weston Town Plan of
Conservation and
Development on Sunday, April 26, from 3:30 to 5 in the
Weston Town Hall Commission Room.
Dr. Tom Failla, Chairman of P&Z presented and ably
answered any and all questions in a broad-ranging
discussion...story in full: http://www.thewestonforum.com/47461/public-discusses-weston-town-plan/
WOMEN'S
HISTORY MONTH PROGRAMS
From our ACTION position...drawn up originally at Program
Planning...
ACTION ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
The Weston League of Women Voters is into Land Use.
Link:
http://www.lwvweston.org/lwvctkelda.htm
WATER SUPPLY: Time for another program? Previous
event:
http://www.lwvweston.org/program.html
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2015 SPEAK UP VIDEO
HERE IN TWO FORMATS
TOWN
TV Channel 79:

Daily
at 10am
THE PICTURE STORY:
Standing room only LWV of Weston
"SPEAK UP 2015" over...

League thanks all who
attended, both our invited officials and the interested
populace. We thought
we heard a restrained concern about being financially
squeezed, but maybe not!

Picture story continues here.
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Nobody asked about this...the budget process.

Check out the
First Selectman's Budget FY'16 here;
LWV of Weston process graphic blow-up
here;
Feb. 3 Tri-Board Meeting
"streaming" a setting for a
demographic preamble:

We
watched the "streaming" Board of Ed Thurs. Jan
29th...Thanks for the "Speak Up" plug!!!

IT WAS 2001 WHEN THIS TOPIC CAME
UP AT P.R.I. PUBLIC HEARING
Some other matters to ask about at Speak Up...is
it time yet for this issue
to surface again?
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Lights
Committee 'walk', Dec. 3, 2014.
New planning
Region? Anything new on the Town Website?
With permission, enters private property, measure if "zero"
light achieved; WCCOG? Anything new with
h2o?
Legislature
in Long Session:
What's
hot?
News
on school enrollment?
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What happened over the summer of 2014?
Lots of work inside and
out on School Road!
This
year?



- Nothing new to the public on
drainage study, involving Onion Barn,
perhaps.
- Lights up/on at the
football field see above, Board of Education's
Facilities Committee on top of this.
- Senior Center South House project underway, not
pictured.
- Weston Library internal changes in line for grant
after planning process, no picture.
- Nothing coming out of the "land swap" between Town and
bank properties.
- PROPOSAL NOW WITHDRAWN BY
BANK after
July 23, 2014

ANNUAL MEETING
(LWV OF WESTON)
2015
"Beyond 2016: Next Generation American
Politics" - watch
on YouTube here.
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ANNUAL
MEETING (LWV of WESTON) 2014:
Annual Meeting approved
new bylaws that formalize the "Steering Committee" as an
alternative way to
conduct League business (approved in concept by LWVCT),
among other items on the agenda.
The LWV of Weston “Betty Hill Forum” and
luncheon May 30, 2014 555began at noon at the Red Barn
featured CT Comptroller Kevin Lembo.
Our guest speaker will address the topic:
“The State of the State, Transparency, and the Future
of Connecticut’s Economy.”
"Picture story" here.
WATCH
COMPTROLLER LEMBO'S TALK & Q&A ON THIS
TOPIC...LINKS BELOW.
The
video is 52 minutes 20 seconds long, and is
presented in two formats:
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which may take several minutes or more. Can be
viewed on
Apple computers if Windows Media Player has been
installed):
www.lwvweston.org/LWVAnnualMtg5-30-14.wmv
(139 MegaBytes)
MP4 format (viewable on most Windows
and Apple computers, but playback may not start until
the entire file has
downloaded, which may take several minutes or more):
www.lwvweston.org/LWVAnnualMtg5-30-14.mp4
(232 MegaBytes)
CT cleared
-
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/DMV-agrees-to-follow-law-after-DOJ-voter-9125802.php
SPEAKER:
Hon. Kevin Lembo, CT
Comptroller, 15th Betty Hill Forum
Friday, May 30, 2014
Excellent
turnout! Answer re: "future?" Moving
slowly forward toward GAAP. Commented on
50-state
bidding wars for jobs. Questioned state
commitment to infrastructure improvements and repairs
(we think
we heard that, but we'll check the tape
later).
CT cleared -
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/DMV-agrees-to-follow-law-after-DOJ-voter-9125802.php
CT
ethics is a matter of interest. Comptroller
Lembo at 2014 Annual Meeting/Betty Hill Forum.
Please join the League of
Women Voters of Weston, CT - not just for
lunch! Online
membership info here.
BACKGROUND
READING about topics covered.
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SPECIAL LWV of Weston meeting Friday
Feb. 22nd the day before rescheduled Speak
Up...

LWV
of
Greenwich held this meeting Tuesday...not
Simpson-Bowles, but sequester question to the
fore.
"HARD CHOICES AHEAD - SIMPSON-BOWLES (A
Framework for Change)"
Picture
story here.
Videotaped by LWV
for online here: