{"id":585,"date":"2025-10-05T09:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T13:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/?page_id=585"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:38:24","slug":"committees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/about-us\/committees\/","title":{"rendered":"Committees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Audit<\/strong> \u2013 Thomas Rachele (Chair)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ballot &amp; Teller<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>Jim Little (Board Liaison<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/contact-federation-treasurer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">) <\/a><\/strong>Gaston Gianni, Stan Palen, Jeane Garrison, Valerie Ramos, Rob Wied, Devin LaSalle<\/p>\n<p><strong>Budget<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>Jim Little (Chair)<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bylaws<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/contact-vfn-bylaws-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Leslie Ravenell (Chair)<\/strong><\/a>, Jim Little, Patricia Wolfe, Christian Gieseler, Eleanor Long, Patricia Meyers, Cynthia Graunke,\u00a0 Bill Briscoe, Karen Cheatwood, Deborah Fisk<\/p>\n<p><strong>Membership<\/strong> \u2013 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/contact-membership-program-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathy Arpa (Chair)<\/a><\/strong>, Marilyn Riddle, Betty Warren, Cynthia Graunke, Graylin Taylor, Ruth Greene, Carol Campbell, Ted Pasek<\/p>\n<p><strong>Net Coordinator <\/strong>\u2013 Stan Palen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nominating<\/strong> \u2013 Howie Lore (Chair), Carol Brown\/Maggie Keator, Margie Mitchell\/Joe Murray, Roy Beasley\/Edward Heflin, Tina Bracy\/Alonso Coleman, Otis Langford\/Fred Rash, Pat Meyers\/Dan Perch<\/p>\n<p><strong>Training<\/strong> \u2013 Deborah Fisk, Cynthia Graunke, Nancy Palmerino, Ellie Long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Virginia Federation list of important committees, focusing on key areas of service and growth.  Committees provide specialized support to the Federation, helping fulfil its mission by focusing on key areas such as training, governance, communications, legislation, membership, and events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-585","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions\/2639"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}