To the Editor:

Several months ago, McHenry County College hired a firm that manages health clubs to advise them if they should spend $42 million of taxpayer money to build a fancy health club. No prizes for guessing what advice they got. They tried to pass this marketing presentation off as a “feasibility study.”

Last month, they paid the same firms $50,000 to do a second study! After being criticized for hiring a firm with such an obvious conflict of interest, MCC took action! On Dec. 11, they increased the contract by a third.