El Dorado Hills Citizens Alliance

Introducing the
El Dorado Hills Citizens Alliance

an organization of El Dorado Hills citizens, organized under California law as a nonprofit public benefit corporation. Under federal law we are a civic league. The Citizens Alliance was founded in 2006.

is for El Dorado Hills to become a premier California community wherein our roads are free flowing and well maintained, infrastructure improvements precede growth, law enforcement services are effective and timely, and the quality of life of its residents is considered paramount.

 is to help EDH citizens claim their right to become to best community in El Dorado County by:

• Most of our activities are communications on an informal basis:  Person-to-person, by email, and in meetings.
   
• We conduct meetings open to the public about once every one to two months at the El Dorado Hills Library, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00. These meetings usually bring in speakers or groups to discuss particular issues or areas of interest in EDH public affairs. The most widely distributed announcements of these meetings are published in local newspapers.
   
• We send news and announcements to our email list, usually at least once per month.
   
• A small core group of members, inclding our board of directors, meets periodically and corresponds frequently by email. Many people in this group attend various meetings of local agencies and nongovernmental organizations. Some in this core group hold positions of responsibility in various local agencies and organizations.
   
• Our directors have authority to represent the Citizens Alliance. This includes expressing opinions and advocacy on behalf of the Alliance, usually in meetings of public agencies. At times our advocacy is announced publicly, usually through submissions to the press by the president of our board of directors.
   
• Some of our most important roles are the least formally organized. These are largely communications, forming links between separate local agencies, and between the general public and local agencies. This can be thought of as a human equivalent of the World Wide Web.
   
• One communication medium that has emerged as an effective tool to reach the public is letters to the editor in local newspapers. These serve as a means for Alliance-supported advocacy on local issues and reach far more of the public than  all other means of cummunication. When we receive comments from the public they usually follow from these letters-to-editor submissions. Such comments so far have generally been to affirm our positions on issues and to urge us to press further for correspondingly appropriate action in local government.

Any El Dorado Hills resident can request to be added to the Citizens Alliance email distribution list for Public Members and interested parties now, before the web-based registration is ready for use.. We treat all email addresses as confidential. All email broadcasts send their message individually to each address on our list through a program on our web server, no cc: list is used and the distribution list is protected from public access.

We are organized as a nonprofit corporation, funded by donations.  As  501(c)(4) corporation, not a charity, donations are not tax deductible. However, they are greatly appreciated.

President	Paul Raveling
Vice President	Hal Erpenbeck
Treasurer	John Thomson
Secretary	Fran Thomson
Director at large	Norm Rowett

Send email to alliance@edhca.net