Sky Zone Orland Park Business License Hearing Rescheduled

ORLAND PARK, IL — Sky Zone Trampoline Park’s expected hearing prior to the Village Board of Trustees to preserve its business enterprise license was rescheduled, right after the Monday evening snow storm that hit significantly of Illinois.

The hearing to reverse its license removing will now take area on Feb. 22, at 6 p.m. The deliberation comes following Village Manager George Koczwara’s Dec. 18 final decision to revoke its license grew to become closing. The business experienced 10 times to file an appeal to the board, and did so on the tenth day, according to the village.

Sky Zone’s authorized team will seem just before the board at the Village Hall, 14700 S. Ravinia Ave. It is unclear if witnesses who gave original testimonies will be in attendance. The hearing will be open up to the community with limited attendance permitted, to enable social distancing. If an overflow of folks make a decision to occur, they could watch in the foyer, in accordance to the village.

Orland executed non-public hearings to acquire a search at proof and take into consideration probably revoking or suspending its license. The hearings took place on Sept. 30, Oct. 6 and Oct. 16, in accordance to the village. Testimonies of 10 village-referred to as witnesses and two witnesses termed by Sky Zone have been provided. The village claimed that within just the testimonies there were being numerous and repetitive reports of concern relating to the basic safety and welfare of attendees at Sky Zone that night.

The village explained Sky Zone’s regional manager testified her opinion, expressing the trampoline park and its workers “did everything accurately and adopted the accurate protocol to maintain the patrons and the workforce risk-free.” Koczwara disagreed, stating the argument is “an alarming and risky corporate standpoint.”

Koczwara identified as the incident a nuisance and mentioned the organization disregarded the security of the minors equally within and outside the facility. The village supervisor reported the overcrowded park has a floor prepare that has road blocks to egress in the occasion of an emergency — this kind of as this one particular — that guide to little ones staying evacuated late at evening, devoid of understanding each individual kid got a experience house.

“An enjoyment business enterprise whose sole small business model is to catch the attention of young children into its indoor park is particularly accountable since little ones at this younger age are not in a position to defend themselves from harm,” Koczwara said.