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Show COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ) The League of Women Voters is now represented on the Board of Trustees of the Community Action Ag·e ncy. Kathy Fitzgerald attended her first CAA Board meeting on September 12, and learned that CAP is in the midst of a crisis generated by the shifting of funds from the OEO to revenue sharing·. Local CAA~ are faced with the choice of remaining private nonprofit corporations and raising their own funds, or ugoing· publicvv and appiying to loca governw.ent agencies for revenue sharing· funds to conduct their prog·rams. Either choice will mean a drastic change in the operations and power exercised by the local CAA. Although the pressure is to go public, the question is still under consideration. Kathy has been assigned to the Planning· and Evaluations Committee of the Board. --Kathy Fitzgerald Human Resources Committee PREPARE FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCING The resource materials for the campaign finance study are already in members: bands. The July/August and September National Voter contain material for the study. Any newspaper or newsmagazine will have pertinent information, and a Facts and Issues has been ordered for members. We will have extra copies of the Facts and Issues for non-members at 25¢ each. Call Pat Clark, 355-8763, if you need an extra copy. See you at the second October meeting·! --Gigi Brandt THANK YOU to Unit 9 members Sharon Decker~enny Grikscheit, and Kathy Blair for helping to assemble the September VOTER. salt lake voter 10/73 MEMBERSHIP IS ACTIVE Did you bring a friend or neighbor to your unit coffee? Gigi Brandt, Unit Organization Chairman, all the Chairmen and C Chairmen of our units made the arrangements for what turned out to be very pleasant get-to-gethers for chatting·, munching, and seeing old and new friendsa If Unit 9 is a typical example the second September ciscussions on "The Car and the Campus" were spirited and informative. Even more new members attended. If you haven't yet invited a friend . or neighbor to League, bring one to the October meetings on Housing and Campaign Financing· or take them on the Housing· Tours. --'Sandy Peck GOVERNMENT STUDY COMMISSION NEWS Narrowing the choice to the urban county or community council form with an elected chief executive, the commission will hold public hearings on October 2nd at East and Kearns High Schoolsand on October 9th at Granite and Cottonwood High Schools. Hearings will beg'in at 7: 30 p.m. Watch the newspaper for further details. Broader and more effective citizen participation motivates minority and disadvantag·e d group support for community council structural form for county g·overnment. James Dooley, local president of the NAACP and Don Austin, representing the Central City Area, spoke convincingly for this form on September 18th. Gina r'.ieke has been appointed to replace Barbara Burnett on the Study Commission. so League still has three representatives. --Peggy Eble p. 5 |
