My angle is more to expose his irregularities where the city has no choice but to remove him. He’s a shady individual, so I’m thinking this is a viable option.
Public. He’s rude and hates people, he used FAA funding to fund improvements to benefit a flight school owned and operated by his wife while leaving the rest of the airport in shambles. He refuses to renew airport leases allowing the airport to deteriorate.
I would suggest you compile detailed evidence of all of the above and start talking to airport board and city council members. If the board didn't know the flight school is owned by the manager's wife, that would be a problem for him. But if they knew that, then it's probably not. If that's the case, then you're going to bed to price that he's doing a bad job and someone else would be a better custodian of the public resource.
It is him
The funds were not used for, but to benefit the flight school, his wife’s flight school has all new tarmac. The rest of the airport is in shambles. The airport manager promised to allocate those funds across various areas but used 100% for his wife’s flight school.
The FBO owner also being airport manager is fairly common.
Thought "event lawn/pavilion" had that covered.
That's a simple one, call the FAA Hotline 866-TELL-FAA (866-835-5322)
Ain't going to happen. The CITY is not involved. The Waukegan Ports is managed by a board appointed by the governor. Welcome to the Chicago political machine.
Negative. It was on the market for couple years. I thought a developer would buy it but it never happened. The former owner passed away and his wife wanted it to remain an airport. Current owner bought last year. Zero ties to aviation. But seems genuinely excited about it. Almost immediately started improvements. Tore down a bunch of trees and improved drainage. Bought a new tractor and mower attachment. Just put in a new fuel system last month. And last week finished sealcoating and currently painting all runways and taxiways. They widened the ends of 9/27 to make it easier for larger aircraft to turn around.
After years of status quo and very little maintenance or upgrades, I'll take the ai silliness.
This is what most people don’t understand. An Airport Manager is a very political job. They have to balance the needs and wants of the tenants, stakeholders, elected officials and staff and whoever they directly report to. Not to say some don’t have their own agenda, but most are just trying to strike a balance between everything, while still trying to conduct routine business. Before you hang a guy, it’s good to walk a mile in his shoes - again, that is not to say what this individual is being accused of is right or wrong, just something to consider.
Exactly.
And you don’t believe the 7 member board approved that expenditure? If you did some research it is likely in the board minutes.
The entire time that I lived up there, I never landed at that field because the runways were in such horrible condition. They were more like gravel
Interesting observation. No comment on the OP controversy but maybe it just means that pilots are no different than anyone else. There are those who use power for the benefit of their boarder constituency and those who for whom the "power corrupts" expression seem to have been written for. OTOH, sometimes they are just doing their job and it's the party complaining who has the narrow viewpoint. I think of the beloved co-worker who gets the supervisor promotion and is instantly hated by their former friends.
Oh, this is good news. So is it reasonably easy now for a transient person to get fuel? My wife's on her way there now due to a family emergency, but there's a good chance I may need to get to Grayslake over the next few months.
Yep. Email was sent to tenants about the pump included video in case it was needed. If you stop in let me know.