VILLAGE BUDGET

On Monday, March 11, 2024 at 10 am at Village Hall, LWVS will hold its annual general membership information session and consensus meeting regarding the preliminary 2024-25 Village Budget. Members of the Village Administration and Board of Trustees will be invited to present and answer questions. The information session will be open to the public; the consensus meeting is for current LWVS members only.

Follow these links to the Village Budget files, the Multi-year Capital Improvement Plan, LWVS Information Session Agenda Questions, Village Responses (when available), and LWVS Consensus Questions. The resulting Consensus Statement will be posted here once finalized.

Important dates on the Village Budget calendar are noted below:

• Thursday, March 14, 2024: Tentative 2024-25 Budget to be presented during Work Session (must be filed by March 20, 2024)
• Wednesday, March 20, 2024: Filing date for the Tentative 2024-25 Budget
• Tuesday, March 26, 2024: Statutory public hearing on Tentative Budget (must be completed prior to April 15, 2024)
• Tuesday, April 9, 2024 or Tuesday, April 23, 2024: Village Board of Trustees to adopt budget (must be adopted prior to Monday, May 1, 2024)

For more information, please contact Shilpa Spencer, LWVS Village Budget Chair, at LWVSvillagebudget@gmail.com.

SCHOOL BUDGET

On Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 10 am via Zoom (Meeting ID: 819 3018 4515, Passcode: 137174), LWVS will hold its annual general membership information session and consensus meeting regarding the preliminary 2024-25 Scarsdale School District Budget. Members of the District Cabinet and Board of Education will be invited to present and answer questions. The information session will be open to the public; the consensus meeting is for current LWVS members only.

Follow these links to view the LWVS Questions re 2024-25 School Budget posed during the Community Forum on Monday, November 13, 2023 and the District’s Responses* (subject to revision as the process continues). Additional materials, including links to presentation slides, are housed on the District’s 2024-25 Budget Documents webpage.

Please see the LWVS Information Session Agenda Questions, the LWVS Consensus Questions to be discussed following the presentation and Q&A, and the resulting Consensus Statement.

Important dates on the Budget Development Calendar are noted below:

• February 5, 2024: Budget Study Session #1
• March 4, 2024: Budget Study Session #2
• March 11, 2024: Budget Study Session #3
• March 25, 2024: Budget Forum
• April 8, 2024: Board Adopts Budget
• May 13, 2024: Statutory Budget Hearing
• May 21, 2024: Annual Budget Vote and School Board Election

For more information, please contact Dalya Khan and Nan Eileen Mead, LWVS School Budget Chairs, at LWVSschoolbudget@gmail.com.

LOCAL, COUNTY, AND NATIONAL LEAGUE PROGRAMS

On Monday, February 5, 2024 at 10 am at the Scarsdale Public Library, LWVS held its annual general membership and consensus meeting to discuss next year’s programs for LWVS (to be proposed for adoption at the LWVS Annual Meeting in May), for the Westchester County League (to be communicated to the LWVW board for its consideration), and for the National League (to be communicated to the LWVUS board for discussion in drafting the proposed 2-year program to be adopted after debate and discussion by delegates at the biennial June convention).

In preparation for the discussion, attendees were asked to review the Agenda and Consensus Questions for the Meeting, which includes links for the current LWVS Program for 2023-24, the current LWVW Program for 2023-24, and the LWVUS Program Planning Materials for 2024-26. With regard to LWVUS programming, the LWVS considered whether to support the LWVUS Board’s recommendation that Program 2024-26 continue its Campaign for Making Democracy Work®, which includes Voting Rights, Improving Elections, Money in Politics, Redistricting, and Abolishing the Electoral College. Locally proposed amendments to LWVUS’s bylaws were also addressed.

In accordance with and following the consensus meeting, LWVS submitted its approval of LWVUS’s proposed biennial program with comments to inform LWVUS that our local league’s focus is on local issues such as the non-partisan election systems, Village and school budgets, and youth engagement. LWVS submitted two proposed amendments to LWVUS’s bylaws to preserve free student membership and rectify an omission concerning Inter-League Organizations (ILOs). LWVS sent comments and suggestions to LWVW concerning its program for next year and drafted a proposed LWVS Annual Program for 2024-25 to be presented for membership approval at the annual meeting in May.

For more information, please contact Heedan Chung, LWVS President.