St. Louis' Board of Aldermen has a message for those trying to lease the city's airport: not so fast.In a letter released today, eighteen of the twenty-eight members on the board urged the city's Board of Estimate and Apportionment to block the hiring of a consultant to explore airport privatization, saying the city's current course has shown "a lack of transparency, glaring conflicts of interest and widespread public mistrust."
Last week, an Airport Selection Committee surveyed eleven proposals from consultants seeking to aid the city in the process of exploring a lease — essentially, farming out operations of St. Louis Lambert International Airport to a private company. The committee said it only received one proposal that met all its criteria.…