Two public hearings on the matter are scheduled for December 16 and December 19, both at 6 p.m. The events will occur at Granby High School and Lake Taylor High School.<\/p>\n
Jackie Glass pushed for the review. “Most of us are looking at this like, ‘Okay, well, we should know more before we decide to flat-out go into a tribal casino and move forward with this deal,'” she explained.<\/p>\n
A critical concern among opponents to selling the land to the Pamunkey Tribe is that the casino will become a tribal venue \u2013 not a commercial venue. If the Interior Department takes the land into trust, the Native American group could potentially skirt certain taxes.<\/p>\n
The tribe would still share gaming revenue from its slot machines and table games.<\/p>\n
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Pamunkey spokesperson Jay Smith said the advantages of a tribal casino outweigh the benefits Norfolk would reap from a commercial venue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“It is worth noting that many of the JLARC figures cited by Ms. McClellan are conservative projections and based on commercial operators, while the Tribe is going to operate their resort and casino in a manner differently than how commercial operators will. An example of that is salaries, where our employees can anticipate to make more at a tribal casino than they would at a commercial casino,” Smith declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Norfolk casino issue is a complicated and divisive topic in the Virginia waterfront city, prompting the local mayor to form a committee to discuss gaming with the public. On Tuesday, the Norfolk City Council \u2013 without any warning or public notice to citizens \u2013 announced it was forming the Mayor’s Committee on Gaming to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":121102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13592,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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