On September 8th, 2008, Monroe City Officials are planning to resume talks before the year end with the Eastern Shawnee Indian tribe on a new profit sharing agreement for a proposed $300 million to $350 million casino facility. City Manager William Brock commented that the community is planning to talk about an agreement with the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of West Seneca, Oklahoma because it is proposing to construct a new casino facility on a 123 acre site in Monroe and Turtlecreek Twp. in Warren County.
The Tribe was previously considering a location for a casino at Monroe’s Corridor 75 Park, a location southeast of Interstate 75 and Ohio 63, but the Eastern Shawnee and property’s park did not renew the option for the buyout of the land at the site. Brock recently passed a twelve page revise casino impact analysis for the new site to the City Council for their study before giving it to the tribe.
Brock said that the most significant expense to the city would be the needed infrastructure improvements for the impending casino. The Indian Tribe have previously approached the city in 2004 to make a profit sharing agreement in an attempt to offset the effect that a casino development would have on the infrastructure and services of the city and the surrounding jurisdictions on a location at the Corridor 75 Park.
Last year, the City Council rejected the request of the tribe to transfer the previous agreement at the Corridor Park to the new propose location. The tribe is currently requesting the federal government put the new location in Monroe and Turtlecreek Twp, into a trust for a casino facility.
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