Meigs now enjoyed by all!

Well-well, read 'em and weep:

Just slide that stack of poker chips over now:


"It was almost like they were an independent nation out there, with
**********no accountability**************
to the taxpayers," Schillerstrom said.

That has changed, he said.
The

*********** Airport Authority now collects about $6.5 million annually
in realestate taxes--about 20 percent of its $29.9 million a year
budget. **************

Over $10 from each person, child, senior, invalid, in the county-JG

None
of the property-tax revenue is used to pay airport operating costs.
Instead, the funds are used to retire debt.

The $12.8 million in long-term debt is scheduled to be paid off in
2007, at which time the property-tax levy could be cut in half, Goodwin
said.

COULD, like, maybe or if you say pretty please. Here comes a BUT, oh
a hangar for the pretty planes.


But the airport expects to borrow money to finance the construction of
a hangar addition. Goodwin said he is cautious about promising to
eliminate the need for property-tax funds until the airport is
debt-free and until a proposed high-technology research center on
airport-owned land along Roosevelt Road and Fabyan Parkway begins
generating revenues for the authority.

(SO, don't bet the kids college tuition on it. The TECH PARK
is a JOKE, miles away from the tollway and high office vacancies
already.-JG)


But for the first time, officials say, it ****appears*** that operating
revenues from hangar leases, the sale of aviation fuel and other fees
are enough to cover the day-to-day costs of running the airport.

****** Again with the APPEARS ****** do they cover or not?
Anyways, Vamanos!


(ALOT of Maybes, and It Appears)

wrote in message
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
wrote in message
ups.com...

DuPage population is 800,000 people, maybe 400 pilots use it,


Where did you get that 400 pilot figure? Are you saying that one must be
a
pilot to benefit from an airport?

What does the non-pilot get?

Idiot.

moo

("Happy Dog" wrote)

Idiot.


:-)


Montblack

In article . com,
wrote:

Thomas Borchert wrote:
no benefit to me
or 99.999% of the population


You actually believe the stuff you're posting here, including that
little non-truth?

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

DuPage population is 800,000 people, maybe 400 pilots use it, Get off
my property tax bill
you moochers. Gotta love that GOP low tax crowd, except when it
benefits them.

JG


DuPage is a large GA airport. Thousands use it, you fool! Maybe only 400
planes there, though.

GA airports are part of our transportation system and fill a vital role
there. Only a fool would deny that.

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"Orval Fairbairn" wrote

GA airports are part of our transportation system and fill a vital role
there. Only a fool would deny that.

Not too mention that a whole lot of GA is training and building hours, for
commercial pilots. Everyone wants to have pilots for their aluminum tubes,
don't they?
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:
"Orval Fairbairn" wrote

GA airports are part of our transportation system and fill a vital role
there. Only a fool would deny that.

Not too mention that a whole lot of GA is training and building hours, for
commercial pilots. Everyone wants to have pilots for their aluminum tubes,
don't they?
--
Jim in NC

The US military produces fine commercial candidates, a good deal:
Training
to defend the county (most of the time) and qualified commericial
pilots
upon retirement.

JG

wrote in message
ups.com...

The US military produces fine commercial candidates, a good deal:
Training to defend the county (most of the time) and qualified commericial
pilots upon retirement.


It's been a long time since the US military provided the majority of pilots
for US airlines.

Orval Fairbairn wrote:

GA airports are part of our transportation system and fill a vital
role there. Only a fool would deny that.

You have to understand his logic. By that logic, the only roads his tax
money should be spent on are the roads he uses. Forget that those other
roads may be used by trucks to bring his food to town. And his gasoline and
home supplies. Or emergency personnel to his house. Or out-of-town family.
Or businessmen supporting his local economy... The point is his tax money
should be spent only on those services he receives *directly*.

I wonder how he feels about waterway funding...

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Name other Commercial Airports that tax
residential property owners?
LAX ORD LGA?

be gone, Vamanos!

In article .com,
wrote:

Name other Commercial Airports that tax
residential property owners?
LAX ORD LGA?

be gone, Vamanos!


It is almost universally the other way around. The only reason that
Meigs was a "cash drain" is that the city of Chicago strangled it befort
they moved in the middle of the night and murdered it.

They used to have a thriving hangar/FBO setup there.

Just why couldn't the vaunted rock concerts have been held at any other
of Chicago's many parks? It isn't as if the city were hurting for parks
before they destroyed Meigs.

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