Riverside Community Alliance

Residents’ ability to know what is happening at Village Board meetings should not be limited to their ability to attend the meeting, watch it on Riverside cable or check out a DVD from the library. RCA campaigned on the promise of putting video of board meetings online, so residents could more easily find out what [...]

In the past, the Village Board would vote on an ordinance at the same meeting it was introduced. As a result, residents would not have much – if any – time to research an issue or raise pertinent questions prior to a board vote on an issue. RCA felt that residents deserved more time to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]