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Redistricting: Next meeting scheduled for Dec. 10

The Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting held its first meeting on Dec. 4. The group met for 25 minutes and adjourned without hearing public testimony.

The next meeting is Dec. 10 at 8:30 a.m. Keep track of the committee by monitoring their web page. All committee meetings are livestreamed and video recordings are available afterwards.

Learn why the League of Women Voters advocates against mid-decade Congressional redistricting and supports the Fair Districts Amendments in the Florida Constitution by watching this YouTube video

How to keep up with Florida Legislature

The official start of the Florida legislative session isn't until Jan. 13, 2026. However, Legislative Committees began meeting this month and Senators and Representatives have started filing bills.

You can keep track of legislative actions by going to the Senate and House websites. A list of all the bills filed can be found at the link below. Bills Filed by Legislators for 2026

League members have interacted with the following Broward County legislators through one-on-one meetings with legislators or their staff or attendance at town halls: Sen. Barbara Sharief (SD 35), Rep. Christine Hunschofsky (HD 95), Rep. Dan Daley (HD 96), Rep. Chip LaMarca (HD 100), Rep. Michael Gottlieb (HD 102) and Rep. Robin Bartleman (HD 103).

Anna Laymon, president and CEO of the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation, during a tour of the new site of the monument.

New monument to women's suffrage moves forward

Officials have approved the location in Washington DC for the first monument to women's history on the National Mall.

It will honor the suffragists who won the right to vote for women in 1920. In that year, leading suffragists founded the League of Women Voters.

The monument will be located in Constitution Gardens, an less visited area of the mall located, appropriately enough, at 19th Street and Constitution Avenue. (It was the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution that brought women the vote.)

This photo illustrates the location, which has a direct visual connection to several other monuments, including the Washington Monument. It is a short walk away from the Vietnam War Memorial and the Vietnam Women's Memorial, which honors the over 265,000 U.S. military and civilian women who served during the Vietnam War. The foundation building the suffrage memorial plans to hold an open competition for designs. The last time a monument was created that was way was the Vietnam "wall" monument, designed by Maya Lin, then a student at Yale.

The Broward League Education Fund donated $500 to the monument fund. All money required to build it must come from donations. Here's more about it: https://womensmonument.org/

Broward County's trash crisis and what you can do

A draft Master Plan for a comprehensive solid waste program for Broward County has been created. The League supports this effort as the only viable way forward to handle our waste in an economical and environmentally sound way into the future. Visit https://browardswa.org/ for more information and a copy of the Master Plan.

To move forward, almost all of the 28 cities in the current Interlocal Agreement need to approve this plan by August of 2026. The League is committed to speak to our local elected officials and staff to be sure they say yes. We can use everyone's help.

Here are key points.

 Broward has a solid waste crisis which is more than 50 years in the making.
 Broward creates almost 5 million tons of solid waste every year.
 Our one landfill and one incinerator are almost at capacity.
 None of our disposal facilities (including the landfill and incinerator) are owned publicly so we are at the mercy of for-profit companies. Costs will only rise.
 Our recycling rate is about 30%. We are wasting resources and harming our environment.
 When our cities and the county work together, we can take advantage of economies of scale to control costs and protect our environment.
 28 of our cities and the county and four professional consultants have labored over the past several years to draft a Master Plan to create a unified operation to reduce the volume of waste, recycle effectively and limit the amount of waste landfilled and burned.
 To not go forward now is to forfeit the opportunity to effectively address our solid waste crisis.
 Listen to Mayor Ryan's remarks on from June 15, 2025.

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Get a quick lesson on mid-decade redistricting from our Oct. 4 presentation on what it is, why it's happening and what we can do to prevent it

In 2010, over 60% of Florida voters agreed to add Fair District Principles to the Florida Constitution for redistricting purposes. Instead, the Legislature continues with gerrymandering when developing district maps. Learn the history and the League’s fight for Fair Districts!

What can youd do?

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You can email legislators serving on the House Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting:
https://lwvbroward.org/docs.ashx?id=1620117

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