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California Looks at Casino Proposal8 January 2003ADELANTO, California – As reported by the (Victorville, California) Daily Press: "A statewide initiative to make Adelanto synonymous with Las Vegas and Atlantic City is back. "John Brown, an attorney from Oxnard, and businessman Robert Wilson co-authored the initiative that would allow Las Vegas-style gambling in Adelanto as part of a 28-year pilot project. "…Wilson started promoting the initiative in 1974. At least one previous city council supported it in 1992, but in 1996 it refused to offer the project another two-year extension citing years of empty promises and concern about Brown and Wilson's financing. "…If California voters passed Wilson's so-called People's Gaming Act, the governor would select three people to sit on the People's Gaming Act Commission. The commission would issue gaming permits to individuals after the city issued them a license, which would be a boost both to the state's and city's tax bases. "According to the city ordinance approved by the previous City Council in 1992, the city license would cost $300,000. The ordinance also included a provision stating Wilson and Brown received 10 gaming licenses and the Hi Desert Casino, which closed in 1998, would receive one. "Currently, Adelanto has three gambling licenses, but none are in use…" |