Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Brian is the 2010 Sam Adams Alliance Government Watchdog Award Winner
• Nationally Recognized Taxpayer Watchdog and Transparency Advocate.
• Successfully Led Campaign to Remove Schaumburg’s Red Light Cameras.
• Saved Schaumburg Taxpayers $15M: Stopped Career Education’s Illegal Property Tax Scam.
• Schaumburg Transparency Project: Built A Groundbreaking Citizen-Based Government Transparency
Website.
www.CostinYouLess.com
Since 1987, spending has unsustainably increased in Schaumburg from under
$25M to over $233M, a more than 300% increase after adjusting for inflation
& population. Even during a severe recession, Village of Schaumburg expenditures are
budgeted to skyrocket over 22%, a $43M increase, for FY 2010-2011 alone.
Common sense
Brian Costin’s