Defends
other criticisms of business license
By Ted Schnell • BocaJump
| Jan. 19, 2012
Insinuations that the Elgin Chamber of Commerce somehow
concealed about 130 member businesses from the city administration when it
began its business license program are false, BocaJump learned Wednesday
afternoon.
The special interest group Elgin OCTAVE has been pressuring
the City Council to dump the business license and publicly has offered a litany
of criticisms of the program. But on Tuesday morning, Chuck Keysor, one of
OCTAVE’s founders, wrote in an email to supporters and other interested parties
that a Freedom of Information Act request he filed with the city revealed
documents indicating “the chamber of commerce provided the original list of
Elgin businesses to the city, around which the business license program was
built. But amazingly, that list was missing about 130 of the chamber's own
members! And not only were they not on the first list; they are still not on
the newest list received two weeks ago!
“Are you shocked and disturbed yet?!”