The tribes will pay a lower percentage of revenue to the state than under previous agreements - reduced from 8 percent to 6 percent - and agree to drop their appeal. The agreement will restore some of the tribes' revenue-sharing payments to the state. A trial court ruled in the state's favor and the tribes appealed the ruling. They said they did not have to continue state payments if there were competing gambling operations. The tribes argued that Club Keno violated their compacts with the state. Granholm on Friday announced the new deal with the Little River and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. The state's dispute with Little River and another American Indian tribe was over the Michigan Lottery Club Keno game. The Lac Vieux Desert Band has a non-exclusive municipal services agreement with the city for its proposal to convert the former SPX Corp. 'A second casino in Muskegon has not been addressed with this new compact,' said Glenn Zaring, director of public affairs for Little River.īoth the Little River Band and the Upper Peninsula-based Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewas have approached the city of Muskegon concerning a downtown casino, at least in part because of a September 2003 vote by residents supporting the idea of a casino here. Department of the Interior's inaction - does put the Manistee tribe in a favorable position as it relates to any new casino that might be built in a nine-county area from Grand Rapids in the south to Cadillac on the north and west to Lake Michigan. The amended compact between the Little River Band and the state - 'deemed approved' by the U.S. No such language is in the settlement, but speculation still abounds among local casino opponents and proponents. Many believed the deal would allow for a new casino built by the owners of the Little River Casino in Manistee.

The long-awaited settlement agreement in a dispute between the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians and the state of Michigan does not open the door for the tribe to build a casino in Muskegon.

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