Table Game Allocation Not Acceptable

Still waiting to see if the Senate is going to approve the table games bill, the state is meanwhile looking to see how much everyone is going to get of the revenue from it. One city is not happy about the formula that the state has come up with, they say that they are not getting a fair piece of the pie. The Kanawha County town of Nitro says that the $65 thousand that is being allocated to them is not acceptable, since that amount is so low it won’t cover emergency services. They say that the allocation amounts need to be changed so that host cities get more money.

Nitro is home of the Tri-State Greyhound Park and Gaming Center, and they say that Charleston is getting more than $628 thousand, and they aren’t doing any of the work. The town already gets roughly $357 thousand from the slot machines at the track, but they say that isn’t enough. They say that they will have to put out money to build a substation for emergency personnel closer to the track, as the track is outside the city’s center.

The current formula has racetrack counties and municipalities sharing 5% of the revenue, and then the amount that each gets is determined by how much money the racetrack in their area puts out and how many people live there. The town of Nitro says that although they are smaller than Charleston population wise, they need to revisit the way they are splitting up the revenue because it just is not feasible to ask the town to do everything they would need to in order to get ready for table games for so little money.

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