{"id":20169,"date":"2017-06-22T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20169"},"modified":"2017-06-21T18:40:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T22:40:44","slug":"special-council-meeting-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/22\/special-council-meeting-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Special council meeting Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/06\/20\/city-calls-for-special-council-meeting\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A special council meeting has been called for Thursday to discuss the city&#8217;s continued concerns about Ontario Lottery and Gaming&#8217;s modernization plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve gone on record with having serious concerns with modernization, the way it&#8217;s being rolled out, and serious concerns of up to 1,400 jobs being in jeopardy (at the casinos in Niagara Falls),\u201d said Mayor Jim Diodati.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve done a couple of public meetings and rallies and gatherings (opposing the plan) &#8211; we&#8217;ve met with the provincial government, we&#8217;ve met with OLG, and (Thursday&#8217;s meeting will be about) next-step endorsements from council.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Council is also scheduled to deal with a funding grant application for this year&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Eve concert.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A special council meeting has been called for Thursday to discuss the city&#8217;s continued concerns about Ontario Lottery and Gaming&#8217;s modernization plan. \u201cWe&#8217;ve gone on record with having serious concerns with modernization, the way it&#8217;s being rolled out, and serious concerns of up to 1,400 jobs being in jeopardy (at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,827,2,601],"tags":[354,408,603,720,1139,523,846,521],"class_list":["post-20169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-casinos-and-gaming","category-niagara-falls-new-years-eve","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","tag-casino","tag-concert","tag-jim-diodati","tag-new-years-eve","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-olg","tag-olgc","tag-ontario-lottery-and-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20170,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20169\/revisions\/20170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}