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Thursday, 17 December 2009 |
 By DEBORAH McCaslin
Chief Publisher
The vote is in, 169 to 128. The Broken Bow City Council asked the question Tuesday and there are enough votes to count. The community will be allowed to operate Keno within its city limits.
The few provisionals still out will not make a difference stated Custer County Clerk Connie Gracey later that evening. Bow voted Keno in.
Of the 2,615 Broken Bow residents registered to vote, 11 percent, or 317 made the trip to the Municipal Building to cast a ballot,
Cold weather wasn’t being targeted as the reason for the low turnout.
Folks out for dinner Tuesday evening were calling it a ‘non’ issue.
A poll volunteer remarked midway through the day that at one time they had been busy, that was when there were four present to vote at the same time.
State statutes allow a county or a city to become a licensing agent for Keno as a source of revenue for city improvement. And, as licensing agents, should a private business choose to go through the city to place Keno in their establishment, a state directed percentage of the income would come back to the city.
The decision rested with the people.
According to Broken Bow City Administrator Tony Tolstedt, the city plans to earmark the Keno revenue for swimming pool operations.
“You don’t rely on Keno for essential operating services,” Tolstedt said in a Chief interview in early December. “It could offset operational costs at the pool, whether it is the current pool or another structure.”
A resolution passed last October by the Broken Bow City Council placed the question on the ballot.
By law, at least 65 percent of the total money spent on Keno has to be returned in prize money. |
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