Despite recent reports of an imminent sale it looks like the Schaumburg Flyers are in some pretty serious legal trouble.

Before the vote, Brian Costin, who is running against longtime Village President Al Larson, asked the board to reject the request, saying the business should pay, not taxpayers.

It is a huge mistake for government to run what should be a private business. This is gross mismanagement and a huge waste of taxpayer money.

Why have Village officials looked the other way for the last 9 years, and perhaps longer, while the Schaumburg Flyers repeatedly defaulted on their obligations to the taxpayers?

Bad government policy in Schaumburg has destroyed 1,600 local jobs and over $150 million in downstream economic activity in the local economy every year.

13 alarming facts about the Schaumburg Flyers and the Village of Schaumburg’s relationship revealed in an audit performed by the Schaumburg Freedom Coalition.

“I would not take such campaign donations,” Costin said. “We have a very different code of ethics and there’s a big difference between how he runs the village of Schaumburg and how I’d run it.”

The time is ripe for a top-to-bottom review of the convention center/hotel by a probing Village Board or independent citizen committee.

The secrecy, deception, and total lack of due diligence in the determination of this blight expansion is an outrage.

Since the building was actually vacant for less than one year before the purchase on January 4, 2007, this building is not eligible for the 7B tax break.

It is unlikely that the Career Education Corporation 7B redevelopment to meet the requirement being “reasonably expected to ultimately result in an increase in real property tax revenue and employment opportunities within the area”.

Career Education says they cannot relocate their headquarters to the vacant building at 231 N Martingale without a 60% property tax break for 10 years. This claim is weak and unsubstantiated.

Due diligence by the Village is so perfunctory and meager that the Village Board and staff were not aware of what buildings were in their own Commercial Blight Area Resolution!

Shouldn’t we be looking for ways to cut wasteful government spending and reducing the highest sales taxes in U.S. history rather than dreaming up additional ways to sink the local economy with additional tax burdens?

The Old Schaumburg Center parking lot plan is completely unnecessary, and an unfair advantage to a privileged few businesses at the expense of all other local taxpayers.