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Cayuga county legislation holds casino session6 June 2007NEW YORK -- As reported by the Auburn Citizen: "The Cayuga County Legislature will hold a special work session next week on the latest proposed settlement in the Cayuga Indian Nation of New York land claim. "The June 13 meeting will have three sections: one from 6 to 6:30 p.m. to outline the proposed agreement, another from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. for board members in the taxing jurisdictions to ask questions and a final from 7:40 to 9:10 p.m. for members of the public to make comments. "...Lawyers for the Cayugas and Cayuga and Seneca counties announced a tentative deal last month that would allow the tribe to build a casino in a New York state community that wanted it and to make up to 10,000 acres of land it owns exempt from property taxes, among other provisions. The tribe would share casino revenues with the two counties and drop its efforts to have its land put into federal trust, which would effectively make them sovereign..." |