Help LWV Dallas Serve Our Mission

The next election is November 4, 2025. It will primarily be about the Texas Constitutional Amendments, but there will also be some Special Elections to fill vacancies. Here are some important dates:

- October 6: Last day to register to vote
- October 20 through 31: Early voting
- October 24: Last day to apply for Ballot by Mail
- November 4: Election Day
- December 13: Joint Runoff Election

Volunteers make the League! Search through our volunteer oppurtunities on the website for some things you will find in the coming month:

Voter Services: 

•  Requests are coming in from the community to help at events.  
•  Dallas College voter services teams are serving their respective campuses.

Communications: 

•  AJ Cole is working with LWV TX on video clips for voter education.  
• Help her create content
• Help her find young people – do you know students looking to fill service hours?
• Help with translations to Spanish

Community Engagement:

•  Respond to our survey (coming soon) – Do you work with other nonpartisan organizations?  Would you like to serve as liaison between the League and your other affiliations.

Administration:

•  The office move is complete.  Here are a couple of remaining tasks: 
• Adding labels to some of the stationery with the new address. 
• A new map graphic with our office at the Bill J Priest Center.

Help a Board member:

•  Many are creating committees in the coming months.  
•  Volunteer Committee – please join me to:  
• Help ensure the voter services teams have the supplies they need.
• Help monitor opportunities on the website.
• Help determine other ways to strengthen support of our volunteers.

In League,

Diane Tasian, Director of Volunteers

volunteer@lwvdallas.org 

Tickets to the 2nd Annual Housing Summit are now on sale! Use code "EARLYBIRD" for 20% off the price of admission through September 15. The annual summit brings together housing advocates, practitioners, policymakers, businesses, nonprofits, and community members to learn and discuss this year's theme: Growth Without Displacement.

This year's summit will be held from 8:30 AM – 4 PM, Friday, November 21 at the University of North Texas at Dallas (7300 University Hills Blvd, Dallas, TX 75241).

Local Air Quality & Air Sensor Summit Meeting

The City of Dallas Office of Environmental Quality and Sustainability is partnering with the North Central Texas Council of Governments to host our next air sensor summit.

Registration is free but  REQUIRED. We have a limit of 50 people, so please only register if you can commit to attending in person. Click here to register.

The deadline to register is Friday, September 12^th.

Date: September 23, 2025

Time: 9am-3pm

Location: North Central Texas Council of Governments: Transportation Council Room

616 Six Flags Dr, Arlington, TX 76011 

Lunch will be included.

Sessions: Topics include: an overview of the HAQ app (Heat + Air Quality), remote sensing, conveying data to the public, and air quality in the medical field.

The final agenda will be shared later.

Please reach out to me or Analisa Garcia (agarcia@nctcog.org) if you have any questions.

What's Going On

Do you wonder what our elected officials are up to? Some LWV chapters have Observer teams that monitor public meetings. A couple of years ago Ashley Washington tried mightily to get some teams started, but there weren’t enough volunteers.   

If you are interested, check out the live streams for the City, County, and DISD.

The good news is that Dallas Free Press has a team called Dallas Documenters  that does go to meetings. They train Dallas residents, pay them to attend meetings, to create reports, and then publish them on their website. Go to the link to see some of their work.  

This program is part of a national organization, City Bureau.  

To learn how to be a Documenter or to support this effort, check out the websites in this article.

I learned about this project when Keri Mitchell, publisher of Dallas Free Press, partnered with us on candidate forums last Spring.

In League,

Diane Tasian, Director of Volunteers

volunteer@lwvdallas.org 

League of Women Voters of Dallas

1402 Corinth Street, Room 109
Dallas, Texas 75215
(214) 688-4125