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What is the Lake Forest Caucus?
The Lake Forest Caucus is an open volunteer organization whose main purpose is identifying qualified candidates to serve as volunteers for The City of Lake Forest’s Boards and Commissions. For over 70 years the Lake Forest Caucus has served as a forum to attract qualified and willing candidates to such positions with the goal of keeping Lake Forest the special place it is. All Lake Forest registered voters are members of the Caucus and are eligible to participate in and vote at all Caucus public meetings. The governing body of The Lake Forest Caucus is the Caucus Committee on Candidates (commonly referred to as the Caucus Committee).
The Caucus Committee, representing registered voters in the recommendation of qualified candidates, has thirty-six elected members (nine members from each of the city’s four wards) and a six member Executive Committee. The Executive Committee is elected annually at the Caucus’s public Annual Meeting, and officers are limited to a maximum of three one-year terms.
The Caucus is neither a political party nor a policy making branch of any unit of local government and is non-partisan. To nurture constant evolution of the governments it serves, the Caucus subscribes to the principal of term limits, starting with the election of its own committee. Each year, three registered voters of Lake Forest are elected from each ward by written ballot mailed to each Lake Forest household with a registered voter. The tenure of each elected ward Committee member is limited to a single three-year term. As the Caucus is a non-partisan committee without a “platform” the candidates who are recommended for elected positions (by voters in local election) or recommended for appointed positions (by the Mayor of Lake Forest or Presidents of the school boards) are evaluated by their capabilities for the position, how informed they are, how well they treat their fellow citizens and how diligent they are in their willingness to serve the City of Lake Forest.
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