About MyTownView
Every municipality in the United States is legally required to publish meeting agendas, minutes, financial reports, and public records. But nobody reads them.
The information is scattered across dozens of poorly designed government websites, buried in PDFs, and posted with zero context. According to Northwestern University's State of Local News report, over 3,200 local newspapers have closed since 2005, leaving 50 million Americans in news deserts with no local coverage.
MyTownView exists to fix that.
What We Do
We aggregate, parse, and structure data from municipal websites, meeting video platforms, state comptroller reports, crime databases, tax revenue filings, and licensing systems into a unified intelligence layer.
AI transcribes meeting recordings into timestamped, searchable summaries. Financial reports become interactive charts. Crime data becomes trend analysis. Every claim links to the source.
A single page for your town that brings together meetings, finances, safety, business activity, and community events. Clean, calm, and authoritative.
Why I Built This
Hi, I’m Tony Grollo. I’ve always believed that local government matters more than anything happening at the state or national level. These are the decisions that directly affect your street, your kids’ school, your property taxes, and your neighborhood. And unlike federal politics, you can actually show up and have a voice.
The problem is that staying informed is unreasonably hard. Government websites are scattered, clunky, and built for compliance rather than residents. Meeting minutes are buried in PDFs. Financial data is locked in portals nobody knows about. I spent years digging through this stuff on my own just to understand what was happening in my own town.
I’ve lived in Villa Park since I was three. It’s the only hometown I’ve ever known, and I care deeply about what happens here. That’s what made it the testing ground for all of this. Aggregating meeting agendas, digging into budget data, tracking crime stats, piecing together a picture of what local government is actually doing. At some point I realized other people might want this too, and MyTownView was born.
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