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Mayor Rusty Bailey

Mayor Bailey Thank you for visiting the webpage for The Office of Mayor Rusty Bailey. As Mayor, I am committed to making Riverside a safer, healthier, and more prosperous place to live, work, go to school, and raise a family. I believe it is our responsibility to invest everything we can to make our city the most innovative, vibrant, dynamic, safe, and healthy city for our children and future generations of Riversiders.

MEASURE A INFORMATIONAL

As you may know, the City Council unanimously placed Measure A on your local Riverside ballot. Keep an eye out for your ballot, it should have arrived. While I cannot advocate a position on Measure A, I can share with you some information on the subject, and encourage you to make an informed vote.

For a quick overview, below are some facts about Measure A, to provide you with information about our City’s local measure.

Riverside voters have voted three times in the past to allow our publicly-owned water utility to transfer a fixed percentage of water fund revenues into the City’s general fund for essential City services. Measure A re-affirms these previous voter approvals.
Measure A does not increase taxes or water rates and simply maintains existing funding for local services.
Measure A supports services such as, local drinking water quality, 9-1-1 emergency response/fire protection, neighborhood police patrols, children’s after-school programs, school crossing guards, and senior/disabled services.
Measure A includes tough fiscal accountability provisions with annual independent audits, public review of expenditures and ensuring that all funds remain local and can’t be taken by Sacramento.

Measure A is an important source of revenue for the City. In recent years, we have dramatically reduced crime, and improved local infrastructure in order to become a community where people desire to live and raise families. Without Measure A funds, the City will be forced to cut some basic services, and Riverside may be faced with more gangs, graffiti and rundown streets.

On Tuesday, May 7, 2013, City Manager Scott Barber presented a report to the City Council outlining the anticipated impacts should Measure A fail to be approved. If you would like to review the City Manager’s report or read the official Measure A ballot question, please click on http://riversideca.gov/measure-a/then go to the bottom of the page and to the box called Measure A Documents and click on Proposed Programs Cuts if Measure A Fails. You can read the City’s Press Release by clicking here.

Please remember to return your ballot by June 4th.

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Fit, Fresh, & Fun Forum

Riverside residents are looking to improve their lifestyles and physical condition through exercise, a healthy diet, and active living. Former Mayor Ron Loveridge and I established the Fit, Fresh, & Fun Forum (The Forum) to explore current fitness resources available to the public, identify unmet fitness needs, and strategize ways to expand opportunities for all Riverside residents. The 30-member task force meets six times a year to: