{"id":20288,"date":"2017-07-04T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20288"},"modified":"2017-07-03T14:27:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T18:27:55","slug":"niagara-falls-council-wants-flawed-casino-rfp-process-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/04\/niagara-falls-council-wants-flawed-casino-rfp-process-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls council wants \u2018flawed\u2019 casino RFP process stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news-story\/7389250-niagara-falls-council-wants-flawed-casino-rfp-process-stopped\/\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The city plans to explore all \u201cavailable legal avenues\u201d with the hopes of getting the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) to halt the process of procuring a new operator for Casino Niagara and Fallsview Casino Resort.<\/p>\n<p>At a special council meeting on June 22, council voted unanimously in support of a resolution that refers to OLG\u2019s request for proposals (RFP) process as \u201cflawed\u201d with its emphasis on revenue for the province, while ignoring economic development and job creation.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report completed by HLT consultants on behalf of the City, the OLG\u2019s plan could result in the loss of up to 1,400 jobs at the two casinos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: The city plans to explore all \u201cavailable legal avenues\u201d with the hopes of getting the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) to halt the process of procuring a new operator for Casino Niagara and Fallsview Casino Resort. At a special council meeting on June 22, council voted unanimously in support of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[21,2,601],"tags":[354,522,10530,151,12675,12674,451,523,352,10319,9096,4062],"class_list":["post-20288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-casinos-and-gaming","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","tag-casino","tag-casino-niagara","tag-council","tag-fallsview-casino-resort","tag-flawed","tag-hlt","tag-niagara-this-week","tag-olg","tag-ontario-lottery-and-gaming-corporation","tag-operator","tag-report","tag-rfp"],"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\/20288","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=20288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20294,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288\/revisions\/20294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}