“I’m notterribly worried about where (the casino) is right now.” “I’m open to (future) suggestions,” Feller said. He said tribes could derail the initiative in severalways. Larsen said initiative supporters are attempting to gather theroughly 600,000 valid signatures needed to get the measure onNovember’s ballot.Ĭouncilman Jack Feller said he’d be open to moving the casino,but said the initiative has a long way to go before it makes theballot. The slot machines areprimarily being used as a threat. He said the goal was to get the tribes to renegotiatetheir contracts with the state, and not to add the 30,000 slotmachines to the cardrooms and racetracks.

Greg Larsen, a spokesman for the initiative, said the measure isintended to generate more funds for public safety and educationprograms. Ocean’s Eleven is the only site in San Diego County out of 16statewide being considered to be included in the initiative for thenew slots. While the initiative is primarily being used as a way to get thetribes to share some of their winnings with the state government,passage of the initiative could give Ocean’s Eleven the right tooperate 800 slot machines. The initiative is called the Gaming Revenue Act of 2004, and itslanguage was certified by the state in January.

The initiative would allow 30,000 new slot-machines atselected racetracks and cardrooms in the state if Indian tribesrefuse to give the state 25 percent of their profits. “If (we) don’t like where they are, (we) can move them into theredevelopment area,” Jepsen said in an interview Thursday, addingthat moving the casino would require the city to change itsredevelopment law to allow casinos in the downtown.īob Moyer, the general manager of Ocean’s Eleven, said the movewould depend on a state initiative that could be on this November’sballot. It is the only cardroomcurrently permitted under the city’s code. Several council members seemed to be receptive to the idea.Ocean’s Eleven Casino is not an actual casino, but a cardroom withgames such as blackjack and poker.

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