(Christine Lemerande, Co-Chair) The Voter Services committee met at the Brown County Central Library on Thursday, October 2, with seven members in attendance. We discussed several initiatives and heard a fun and educational presentation by Lynn Gerlach on civics curriculum options in the Green Bay Area Public Schools.   We attended to the following business: Dawn Smith wrote an apartment complex welcome letter from our League that gives new residents information on how to reg

(Jean Marsch, Chair) The Healthcare and Environment Committee meeting will be Wednesday, November 12 , at 10:30 am, via Zoom. All are welcome. Please contact Jean Marsch at jean.marsch@gmail.com or 920-336-6834 for a Zoom link.   Special event – mark your calendar: On December 17, 10:30 am, the Healthcare and Environment Committee will meet via Zoom and host  guest speaker,  Selina Darrow, Founder, Interim President and Executive Director of Rooted In, Inc., located in Gree

(Denise Gaumer Hutchison, Chair) The Education Committee met on October 23, 2025, via Zoom. We discussed the Green Bay Area Public Schools' search for a new superintendent. Community members will be able to participate in the conversation about the new superintendent search on several occasions in early November. Note the details in this (November) LWVGGB newsletter.   Our discussion also covered all the following important information about local education:   Howard Suamico

(Terri Gulyas, Chair) Our next meeting will be Tuesday, November 18, 6:30 PM via Zoom. This will be Session #2 of our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion series . Kole Torres, the LWVWI DEI Manager, will present Charting Our Course: Aligning DEI with Values, Goals, and Actions. If you weren’t able to make it to our first session, that’s okay. My favorite part was at the end of the presentation when Kole gave us “calls to action” and talked about work that other Leagues are doing

Submitted by Dawn Smith and Christine Lemerande, Co-Chairs of Voters Services Committee Voter Services met in September after taking the summer off. We spent some time talking about our plans for the upcoming general election year. A couple things we’re looking at: • Putting together content for our YouTube channel around the new property tax bills in Green Bay and school funding in the state. The Education Committee has expressed an interest in partnering with us on this. •

Submitted by Jill Fermanich, NPVIC Chairperson National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC): What is it? The National Popular Vote bill will guarantee the presidency to the candidate who wins the most popular votes in the entire nation. It is an interstate compact, which is an agreement between two or more states, and it works like this: Each state that votes to join the compact agrees to pass state laws that will instruct that state’s electors to vote for the presidentia

Submitted by Jean Marsch, Health & Environment Chairperson Our committee will meet on Wednesday, October 8 at 10:30 am at the home of Sue Whittemore and via Zoom. All are invited to attend, so please contact Jean Marsch at jean.marsch@gmail.com and she will provide directions or will send a Zoom link if you prefer to join virtually. Here are some of the articles we’ve been exploring: How services at rural hospitals change when taken over by large health care organizations.

Submitted by Terri Gulyas, DEI Chairperson Many thanks to those who attended our September kick-off event discussing diversity, equity, and inclusion in our communities. We viewed The DEI Journey with Local Leagues webinar and enjoyed an engaging discussion facilitated by Kole Torres, the LWVWI Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager. For those who missed this event, the slides can be viewed at The DEI Journey with Local Leagues slides . Here’s a link to the webinar: The DE

Submitted by Terri Gulyas, DEI Committee Chairperson DEI Committee Launches 2025–26 Workshop Series! We’re excited to announce a series of engaging workshops for the 2025–26 program year. The series will kick off on Saturday, September 20, at 11:00 a.m. (location to be determined). Follow-up sessions will be held via Zoom in the evenings of October, November, February, and March. To get the most out of the workshop series, participants are asked to view a short webinar from