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Three Michigan Cities Consider Casinos

MOUNT CLEMENS, MI-Three southeastern Michigan cities--Romulus, Flint and Mount Clemens--are considering plans to open a casino in each of their communities as a way to boost city tax revenues.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on February 09, 2004

MOUNT CLEMENS, MI-Flint has become the third southeastern Michigan city to begin speaking openly about the possibility of opening a casino within its borders as a way to boost municipal tax revenues. Last week, the Flint City Council approved a plan to put a referendum before voters in August to approve a possible casino. Voters in Romulus, in suburban Wayne County, approved such a measure in December.

In Mount Clemens, no vote is scheduled, but Mayor Quinnie Cody says a casino may be the perfect complement to the Macomb County seat’s already bustling nightlife. The fight for a possible casino was created after Detroit, which already has three casinos, agreed not to try to block another casino in the area. The Sault Ste. Marie tribe of Chippewa Indians has the rights to place a casino in either Romulus, Flint or Monroe under a land claims agreement agreed to by former Gov. John Engler shortly before he left office in December 2002.

Michigan is home to 17 Indian casinos and more could be in the works, as proposals have also emerged in Petoskey, Grand Rapids and Battle Creek. Any casino proposal must be approved by voters in the community in which it will be located, must be operated by a Michigan tribe and needs Congressional approval for the transfer of the land in question to the tribal government.

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