Good economic development requires attention to detail. What will the total cost of the casino be to local taxpayers? One report estimates the increased cost for social services alone will be $2 million.What impact will the casino have on local crime, who will have authority, and how will it be addressed?.The proposed casino will likely increase traffic in the area by 2000 vehicles per day but there is no traffic study available indicating what the actual impact will be on local traffic and what will be required in terms of improvements to address those impacts and what that will cost local taxpayers.One such disaster is currently unfolding in Northern Wisconsin with two tribes who are using their sovereign status to block “access to private properties, levy unreasonable fees on local municipalities and cause skyrocketing property taxes. Given that the casino project footprint included in the IGAs requires maybe 30 acres of land, placing all 60 acres will not only take that land off the tax rolls forever with no promise of further economic benefit to Kenosha, it could lead to a future disaster.There has been no public input and there are a number of real concerns and unanswered questions that must be addressed. Rather it’s likely that both bodies are simply delaying the vote in the hope public opposition will die down. There appears to have been no move to revisit or amend the IGAs.

Last month, after dozens of citizens called their officials and turned out for public hearings, both the Kenosha City Council and the Kenosha County Board postponed their votes to approve their Intergovernmental Agreements with the tribes until January. Questions and concerns about the casino linger Now the Seminole Tribe of Florida is about to do it again. They played revenue hungry politicians like finely tuned pianos.

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