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Peoria County panel supports regulation of video gaming
Peoria Journal Star
May 27, 2010
By John Sharp
Finance committee recommends County Board vote on regulation in unincorporated Peoria County.
PEORIA - Video gaming in taverns and other facilities in unincorporated Peoria County should be regulated and slightly more than $100,000 should go to enforce it, a Peoria County committee ruled Thursday.
By a 4-3 vote, the county's finance committee recommended the full County Board vote June 10 to support the regulation of video gaming within the county and to appropriate 25 percent of an estimated $405,000 in new video gaming revenues to the State's Attorney's Office. Voting in favor of regulation were board members Andrew Rand, James Dillon, Allen Mayer and Stephen Morris. Voting against were board members Brad Harding, Carol Trumpe and Robert Baietto.
"I think it underscores the magnitude of this issue," Rand said after the vote. "People are passionate about this subject, pro and con." To view the entire article, click here.  |
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