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Florence Cuts No Deal With Tribes For Casino May 9, 2003

he city of Florence let the deadline pass this week to sign off on a pact with the tribes that want to build a casino near town. This means no concessions by the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, no promises, no deals cut with the city on how a proposed casino would be built and managed.

And, it means the city won't extend water and sewer services to the tribes if a proposed $24 million casino is built off Highway 126. Tribal Administrator Francis Somday said Thursday that the tribes will build their own sewage treatment facility and drill their own wells.

The pact, drawn up by the Confederated Tribes, was a laundry list of agreements. For instance, the tribes would have put off building an events center for five years if the city would have agreed to allow the casino to tap into the sewage system.

Florence Mayor Alan Burns said a number of reasons contributed to the city's decision to let the deal break. For one, the time frame to make the decision was simply too short. The city got the tribe's proposal late last week, and had until Tuesday at 5 p.m. to decide on it.

Also, with the casino's fate still in federal court, some thought it premature to sign off on deals for building it. Burns, like other city leaders, worried that city approval of an agreement might signify approval of the casino, which could be used in a federal lawsuit the state has filed against the casino.

Plus, there were problems with the tribe's proposal, concerns about the city taking on liability by signing off on it, and community sentiment that appears heavily opposed to doing anything to smooth the road toward a casino.

Some have questioned whether the city's water resources are capable of fulfilling the tribe's needs, a central issue in the debate on whether the city should extend its urban growth boundary to include the Hatch Tract, the 98-acre stretch of property where the tribes intend to build.

With the death of an intergovernmental agreement, that debate is moot as well, Somday said. He also pointed out that the city had much more time than four days to negotiate a deal with the tribes; the two entities have been hammering this out since October, Somday said.

Environmentally, Somday said it's far from ideal to have two sewage treatment facilities so close to each other, and the tribe's concession not to build an events center for five years is now off the table, as well.

Now, the only thing the tribes would provide is funding for public safety, in accordance with their compact with the state. "It was a fair agreement, across the board," Somday said.

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