Adopting Positions

League of Women Voters^®
of Framingham

How does our League adopt local support positions?

Members submit ideas for local study items to the Board of Directors well in advance of the Annual Meeting. The Board considers the following factors in deciding whether to pursue a formal study:

appropriateness of the study to the mission of the League
feasibility of such a study
availability of membership hours for a workshop group of the membership to gather information and to organize it for presentation to the whole League through unit meetings that are small enough to allow full and free discussion by all members until a consensus is reached (sometimes, especially for up-dates, a general membership meeting instead of many small meetings is appropriate).

At the Annual Meeting the Board then recommends an item for study, or not. If the study is NOT recommended, the item needs a 2/3 vote at the Annual Meeting in order to be adopted. If the study IS recommended by the Board, a majority vote at Annual Meeting is sufficient for approval.
After adoption at the Annual Meeting a workshop is then organized. The background study by the workshop takes a few weeks or months, before the workshop is ready to present the item for discussion (and possible arrival at consensus on which a position could be based) to the rest of the League membership.
In recent years few new study items have been adopted, although earlier positions have been re-studied, updated and readopted.

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