Riverside Community Alliance

One of the keys to an open and transparent government is giving residents easy access to information about how their tax dollars are being spent. RCA campaigned on putting the village checkbook online. In the summer of 2009, with the help of village staff, that promise became a reality.
Riverside’s check register reports, a detail of [...]

Past Riverside Village Boards relied on executive search firms to find senior level staff, costing the village tens of thousands of dollars in fees. After the resignation of our former Village Manager, two RCA board members – Mike Gorman and Lonnie Sacchi – took it upon themselves to conduct the search for both the interim [...]

RCA campaigned on making Riverside government more open and transparent. One of the first things we did when we were sworn in was keep our campaign promise to change the policy of restricting public comment at board meetings.
We ended the old policy of giving residents only 5 minutes each to speak and did away with [...]