Sentences with phrase «casino payments»

The concern is for what happens if casino payments remain out of the budget formula after this year.

Since 2014, city lawmakers have increased portions of casino payments for use in the general fund.

New York State would like to avoid arbitration when it comes to a dispute over casino payments with the Seneca Nation.

Two members of the arbitration panel tasked with resolving a dispute about casino payments between the Seneca Nation and New York State are now in place.

I trust that the governor is going to work things out,» said Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster, whose city receives more money than any other local government from the Seneca casino payments to the state.

It's much - needed money for cities like Salamanca, which receives nearly $ 6 million in casino payments annually.

HENRIETTA, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo says New York State is no longer playing nice when it comes to a dispute over casino payments with the Seneca Nation of Indians.

The last year of full casino payments to the Falls, in 2016, gave the city $ 10.8 million to spend.

The last time it halted casino payments to Albany, Cuomo in 2013 threatened to end the tribe's casino exclusivity arrangement from the 2002 compact.

The Senecas say their contract obligation to contribute casino payments has ended.

Mayor Paul Dyster says the city would have been able to repair about twice that many roads, had casino payments from the Seneca Nation kept coming.

«I think everyone knows we've got a situation where significant sums we planned to use in our 2018 budget from the Seneca casino revenues are not available to us at this time,» said Dyster, in reference to a dispute between the Seneca Nation and the State of New York, which has disrupted casino payments and which is now in arbitration.

The Cuomo administration and Seneca Nation of Indians agreed on the membership of an arbitration panel to decide its years» old dispute involving more than $ 400 million in stalled casino payments the state says the tribe has wrongfully halted.

It's one of several tough decisions Scott anticipates will be made as the City of Niagara Falls learns to live without the funding it previously relied on from Seneca Niagara casino payments.

Voccio explained this year's city budget includes an estimated $ 11 million of previous casino payments that were available in reserves.

David A. Paterson in the final months of his administration sent a «notice of claim» in 2010 when the Senecas withheld casino payments because of what it called illegal competition in an exclusivity zone of casinos carved out for the tribe.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Seneca Nation President Todd Gates privately pledged five months ago to meet to solve a new dispute over tribal casino payments.

The Senecas stopped making casino payments to New York a year ago, saying the nation's financial obligation under a 2002 compact with New York had expired after 14 years and $ 1.4 billion in payments.

Of course, Bitcoin still remains a fringe option in terms of casino payment methods, and not every casino is setup to accept and pay via Bitcoin.

Time is running out and it appears New York State and the Seneca Nation of Indians are not any closer to working out a disagreement about casino payments.

Western New York Assemblyman Mickey Kearns, D - Buffalo, stopped short of criticizing the governor when asked about the ongoing dispute between the state and the Seneca Nation over casino payment.

It was not immediately clear Wednesday evening how much money the state or localities were projecting to receive in the coming year from the Seneca casino payments.

Dyster, the Niagara Falls mayor, said his city received $ 21 million in casino payments one year several years ago.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says he's hoping to avoid litigation with the Seneca Nation of Indians over casino payments.

The Seneca Nation of Indians said the governor's office canceled a meeting on July 27 where Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Seneca President Todd Gates had planned to discuss a continued dispute over casino payments.

The Seneca Nation of Indians is ending all casino payments of more than $ 110 million a year to the state government effective next week, setting up a confrontation with the Cuomo administration.

All of this is coming out now as the state and the Nation continue to disagree over casino payments.

ALBANY — The Seneca Nation of Indians is ending all casino payments to the state government effective next week, setting up a confrontation with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Besides the casino payments to the state and localities, the Seneca Nation said it has invested more than $ 1 billion in commercial development at its casinos, including a $ 40 million expansion of its Buffalo casino that is nearing completion.

The Seneca Nation and the state of New York have each selected arbitrators in the process to resolve a dispute about casino payments.

The financial outlook has turned negative for Niagara Falls since the Seneca Nation cut off casino payments, according to one of the major Wall Street credit rating firms.