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County consults with feds on MOU

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CARS is pleased to bring you the latest news on the Cowlitz casino issue. Feel free to add your comments to our blog and research background information on our Web site.
 
Sincerely,
Ed Lynch, Chairman
When CARS spoke in December with George Skibine in the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, he told us that the Cowlitz Tribe's lack of a valid Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Clark County concerned his department. He added that the lack of an MOU "could potentially be a deal breaker" for the tribe's casino application. 

 

That is one of the reasons CARS has encouraged the county commissioners to: a) not resurrect the 2004 MOU, which was twice declared invalid; and b) not negotiate a new one.

 

We're pleased to hear the commissioners have decided to write Skibine and ask him about the importance of an MOU with the county and whether its absence could kill this deal. It is quite likely they will not receive a cut and dried response, but at least they are pursuing the answer to an important question.

 
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