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Riverside trustees present proclamation honoring Trustee Meghan Clarity for 2021–2025 service
Summary
At its May 1 meeting the Village of Riverside Board of Trustees read a proclamation recognizing Trustee Meghan Clarity’s service and listing capital projects, code updates and community initiatives credited to her term.
The Village of Riverside Board of Trustees presented a proclamation honoring Trustee Meghan Clarity at its regular meeting Thursday, May 1, recognizing her service from 2021 to 2025.
In a reading of the proclamation, the board president said, “Whereas Meghan Clarity has honorably served as a village trustee from 2021 to 2025,” and listed Clarity’s professional background and community involvement as grounds for the recognition.
The proclamation and the president’s report attributed a series of local accomplishments to the board’s work during Clarity’s term, including multiple capital projects (Selborne Road, Kent Road, Shenstone Road, Park Path at Turtle Park, Swan Pond Path and wayfinding signage near the zoo); a village water replacement program; creation of two business districts at Harlem and Long Common; acquisition of property at 363 East Burlington; receipt of a planned unit development application for a Burlington Street multifamily building; and 10 new brick-and-mortar businesses reported in February 2024. The president also cited completion of a zoning code update and a rental registry and inspection program, the opening of the Quincy Community Center at 43 East Quincy, the board’s approval of a climate action and resiliency plan that night, and the reaffirmation of the village’s double A-plus rating by Standard & Poor’s.
The president also noted the board’s role in what he described as a successful appeal of an Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board decertification of Officer Zena Ramos. The proclamation text read that Clarity’s “professional background as an attorney with both public and private sector experience, combined with her MBA in finance, provided the village with exceptional skills in legal analysis, critical thinking, and prudent financial oversight.”
Trustee Meghan Clarity addressed the board after the proclamation. “It has been a tremendous privilege and a tremendous honor to work with all of you,” Clarity said. She described priorities during her term as stewardship of resources, advocacy for families and children, and promotion of economic development, and said she was “so grateful to have had this opportunity to get a little closer to our village and understand how things work and to be an advocate.”
Clarity thanked staff and volunteers; the president thanked Clerk Stenson for preparing the proclamation and Chief Buckley for a parting gift. The meeting did not record any formal vote on the proclamation. The board later moved to adjourn; the motion carried by voice vote.
