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PROGRAM HISTORY of League of Women Voters – Greater Cleveland (And Predecessors) PROGRAM HISTORY of League of Women Voters – Greater Cleveland (and Predecessors) Compiled by Lynda Mayer, Carol Gibson, Penny Jeffrey, Roslyn Talerico, Mary Warren League of Women Voters of Cuyahoga County 50 Public Square #938 Cleveland, OH 44115 2016 PREFACE The process for adoption of public policy positions by the League of Women Voters organization has seldom varied over the League’s 96-year history, although the topics selected for League action and education have changed through time as grass-roots members reflect and respond to the critical issues of their place on the globe. At local, state and national levels of the League, members perennially review positions already in place and determine whether to update, discontinue or renew the expressed viewpoints. This process distinguishes the League from many other organizations where it is the board of directors’ job to establish program priorities. In the League, members weigh in on and create a “menu” of topics of interest, expecting the board members to determine which ones will come to the forefront as an advocacy agenda in a given year. Under the League’s system, some issues remain on the program list for decades, indications of the organization’s over- arching public interests and enduring principles. This compilation describes program efforts reports on work since 1967. It was that year that the several local Leagues in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, joined forces as an Inter-League Organization (ILO) sanctioned by the League of Women Voters of the United States to work together on common elements of their residence in Ohio’s most populous county. In the early 2000s, League leaders determined that the ILO “umbrella” was not an adequate structure for blending local and county-wide interests and involvement, a response to rapidly increasing community interests in regional approaches to government and management. A merger of seven local Leagues in 2003 forged the new ways of work, followed by restructuring in 2007 and the creation in 2015 of a county-wide League with chapters in many cities. --Janice Patterson, Editor 2 LWV ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY In 1920, the Cuyahoga County Woman’s Suffrage Party voted to disband and turn over its membership roll to the new Cleveland League of Women Voters. Its organizational meeting in April 1920 followed on the February 1920 formation of the League of Women Voters of the United States. In 1922, the Lakewood League was founded as a separate League. During the 1930s, suburban Leagues were branches of the Cleveland LWV, sharing a common program. Numerous branch Leagues started up and disbanded through the World War II era, then became independent groups with their own officers and program interests and sending representatives to a county League council. Under the leadership of Marilyn Zack, the county focus for the League was reorganized in 1967 to provide a board of directors elected from the general membership of all the Leagues. This Inter-League Organization (ILO) held an annual convention to select topics for concerted attention and action. Members throughout the county became involved in studies and in monitoring organizations supported by county tax dollars.1 In 2003, seven Leagues in Cuyahoga County voted to merge, reorganizing as a successor to the Inter-League Organization with a single elected Board of Directors and naming itself first as LWV of Cuyahoga Regional Area and later as LWV - Cuyahoga Area. Three Leagues in the county retained their long-time status as independent Leagues until 2014 when a majority of all League members in the county approved a plan to become a single League -- the League of Women Voters of Greater Cleveland – with chapters in many communities. Known organization dates for suburban Leagues: 1945 – East Cleveland (disbanded 1972, reconstituted 2016) 1946-48 – Cleveland Heights, University Heights, Bay Village, Shaker Heights 1953-1959 – Rocky River, Westlake, Fairview Park, North Olmsted, Euclid, Hillcrest Area Other locations where Leagues have existed, merged with neighbors, and/or disbanded: Berea, Bratenahl, Brookpark, Chagrin Valley, Middleburg Heights, Olmsted Falls, Olmsted Township, Strongsville. 1 Van Auken, Lois. “An Anecdotal History of the Cuyahoga County Suffrage Association and the Cuyahoga County League of Women Voters.” 14 February 1980. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface 2 LWV Organizational History in Cuyahoga County 3 GOVERNMENT Administration of Justice in Cuyahoga County 5 Authorities Boards, Commissions and Special Districts 7 Charter Review* 9 Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority 9 County Government 12 Ethics in Government 18 Planning* 20 Regionalism 20 Taxation* 21 SOCIAL POLICY Cuyahoga Community College 22 Diversity* 24 Health Services 24 Housing* 26 Primary and Secondary Education* 26 Public Libraries* 27 Public Recreation* 27 Transportation, Transportation and Land Use 27,29 NATURAL RESOURCES Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve* 30 Cuyahoga Valley National Park 31 Natural Resources: Environment-Lake Erie 34 APPENDICES I. Three Fact Sheets: ABCD Study 36 II. History of LWV Efforts to Achieve Home Rule in Cuyahoga County 39 III. Consensus Questions for Ethics in Government Position 44 IV. Code of Ethics Proposal by LWV’s Code of Ethics Workgroup 47 V. Consensus Questions and PowerPoint Script from Regionalism Study 61 VI. Transportation & Land Use Grant Application 68 VII. Background on Dike 14 Nature Preserve Study 74 * These positions were originally adopted by one or more local Leagues prior to the merger that formed the LWV of Greater Cleveland. The LWVGC membership voted on May 30, 2015, to approve these as positions of the LWVGC in common. (In addition, several chapters of LWVGC have retained positions that pertain to local matters.) 4 GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (1971) – ILO Study Support of comprehensive planning, improved bail system, rehabilitation of offenders, alternative handling of some “no-victim” crimes, improved police- community relations, uniform code of training and conduct and adequate financing. 1. Comprehensive, system-wide planning, preferably including use of data-processing, but with care taken that computerization not result in impersonalization or decreased personal accountability. 2. Improved bail system, minimizing the role on the bondsman, and utilizing a court operated cash deposit plan and release on recognizance as possible consistent with protection of society. 3. Emphasis on rehabilitation using halfway houses, work release programs, adequate probation services adequately staffed by trained officers, increased community acceptance and job opportunities. 4. Alternative handling of some ‘no-victim’ crimes (e.g., handling of drug addiction and drunkenness as social or medical problems) and removal of some offenses from the law (e.g. homosexuality). Support for changes in laws dealing with gambling and prostitution. 5. Improved police-community relations including citizen support for law enforcement and crime prevention and a uniform code of training and conduct for police departments throughout the county. 6. Adequate financing, with funds used to best advantage and with greater emphasis on prevention and rehabilitation than on institutionalization. HISTORY: The League’s interest in how justice was being administered was aroused in 1970 by passage of a bond issue for the Justice Center, which the League supported on the basis of its support of a financing program that provided for increased county responsibilities, adequate maintenance, and long-range planning for capital improvements. The League published The Administration of Justice in Cuyahoga County. In 1973 the “Evaluation of Justice for Juveniles in Cuyahoga County” was added to the original study topic. During the rest of the decade the League joined with other organizations and coalitions to monitor and reform the county’s juvenile justice system. During the 1980s, reacting to new state legislation, Juvenile Court personnel were interviewed. Local expungement and the separation of adult and juvenile offender practices were investigated as well as the availability and use of local resources for youth. The League has continued to monitor Juvenile Court practices in cooperation with other organizations such as the Federation for Community Planning and the Court’s Citizens Advisory Board. The League monitored the planning for a new detention facility and investigated best practices and model facilities. When the County Commissioners proposed a high-rise facility behind the Juvenile Court, the League opposed the decision and urged the selection of a larger site for a state-of-the-art facility. ACTION & EDUCATION: 5 --Supported levies related to operating and building costs for justice facilities. --Participated in Juvenile Justice Task Force of the Federation for Community Planning and successive citizen advisory groups --Held a membership meeting at women’s detention center --Sponsored candidate forums for judgeship candidates --Joined a coalition working on felon’s right-to-vote issues --Formed a Family Court Study Committee (2007) involving interviews and a public forum. 6 AUTHORITIES, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS & SPECIAL DISTRICTS (2007) -- Joint 3-League study Support measures to promote the accountability, accessibility, visibility, citizen participation in and coordination of all boards (i.e., authorities, boards, commissions, and special districts) connected to Cuyahoga County governance. A. Compliance by all boards with all open-meeting and open-records provisions
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