Thursday, May 31, 2007

Schwarzenegger, tribes sign Barstow casino extension

as posted 5.31.07 by the Sacramento Bee's CapitolAlert


By Shane Goldmacher -
CapitolAlert

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and two Indian tribes signed an agreement Thursday, extending the deadline for their bid to create an off-reservation casino in Barstow.

Schwarzenegger, the Big Lagoon Rancheria of Humboldt County and the Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians in San Diego County signed an agreement - on the day the tribes' compacts were set to expire - to keep the plans for a casino alive.

The new deadline for the proposal is the end of the legislative session in September.

The Desert Dispatch has more details, including the explanation that today "marked a deadline for land south of the Barstow Outlets mall to be taken into trust by the federal government, made into reservation land, and deemed eligible for gaming for a proposed casino resort."

Here's the governor's office's explanation:
"The original compacts authorize the Big Lagoon Rancheria of Humboldt County and the Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians in San Diego County to establish a single, unified casino project in the City of Barstow on a piece of property identified by the City. The City sought to have a casino located in Barstow and had previously entered into an exclusive arrangement with the Los Coyotes Band to allow for the construction of a casino. As a condition of its compact with the state, the Los Coyotes Band agreed to share its site in Barstow with the Big Lagoon Rancheria and forgo the right to conduct gaming on its tribal lands in San Diego County.

"Big Lagoon Rancheria, in exchange for the right to locate its gaming operations in Barstow, agreed to refrain from building a casino or any other commercial development on its tribal lands along the coast of northern California."


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