WEBVTT 00:00:10.877 --> 00:00:12.979 THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT 00:00:13.046 --> 00:00:16.282 ORGANIZATION WILL BEGIN IN 60S. 00:00:16.349 --> 00:00:32.499 THANK YOU. 00:01:05.198 --> 00:01:06.332 GOOD MORNING. ONCE 00:01:06.399 --> 00:01:09.169 AGAIN, THE COMMITTEE WILL BEGIN. 00:01:09.235 --> 00:01:10.303 THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON 00:01:10.370 --> 00:01:11.404 GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION WILL 00:01:11.471 --> 00:01:12.705 NOW BEGIN. ONCE AGAIN, THANK 00:01:12.772 --> 00:01:14.474 YOU, EVERYONE WHO CAME FROM FAR 00:01:14.541 --> 00:01:15.642 AND CLOSE. WE APPRECIATE 00:01:15.708 --> 00:01:18.077 EVERYONE SHOWING UP TODAY. I'M 00:01:18.144 --> 00:01:19.412 STATE SENATOR SUSAN RUBIO, 00:01:19.479 --> 00:01:21.080 CHAIR OF THIS COMMITTEE. AND 00:01:21.147 --> 00:01:22.482 TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE 00:01:22.549 --> 00:01:24.083 LISTENING TO TRIBAL COMPACTS. 00:01:24.150 --> 00:01:25.318 AND FOR THOSE UNFAMILIAR WITH 00:01:25.385 --> 00:01:28.288 THE SENATE PROCEDURES THAT THE 00:01:28.354 --> 00:01:30.423 THAT ARE ESTABLISHED FOR 00:01:30.490 --> 00:01:31.157 INFORMATIONAL HEARINGS, WE'RE 00:01:31.224 --> 00:01:32.759 GOING TO HEAR TODAY THE DETAILS 00:01:32.826 --> 00:01:34.694 ON THESE COMPACTS, BUT THE VOTE 00:01:34.761 --> 00:01:36.296 WILL TAKE PLACE AT A LATER DATE 00:01:36.362 --> 00:01:38.097 ON THE SENATE FLOOR. SO ONCE 00:01:38.164 --> 00:01:40.033 AGAIN, NO VOTE WILL BE TAKEN 00:01:40.099 --> 00:01:41.835 HERE. BUT BEFORE WE BEGIN, I 00:01:41.901 --> 00:01:44.804 WANTED TO FIRST EXTEND MY THANK 00:01:44.871 --> 00:01:46.606 YOU TO ALL OF US HERE TODAY, 00:01:46.673 --> 00:01:48.341 BUT I KNOW WE HAVE A COUPLE 00:01:48.408 --> 00:01:49.509 PEOPLE JOINING US REMOTELY, AND 00:01:49.576 --> 00:01:51.711 WE WILL GO IN ORDER. WITH THAT, 00:01:51.778 --> 00:01:54.781 I WILL BEGIN MY VERY FIRST 00:01:54.848 --> 00:01:56.616 GROUP. AND THAT'S AGUA CALIENTE. 00:01:56.683 --> 00:01:58.017 WE'RE GOING TO HEAR THE 00:01:58.084 --> 00:01:59.786 AMENDMENTS. WITH US TODAY IS 00:01:59.853 --> 00:02:01.621 MATTHEW LEE, SENIOR ADVISOR FOR 00:02:01.688 --> 00:02:03.022 TRIBAL NEGOTIATIONS FOR 00:02:03.089 --> 00:02:05.325 GOVERNOR NEWSOM. MR. LEE, IF 00:02:05.391 --> 00:02:11.331 YOU CAN, PLEASE JOIN US. AND 00:02:11.397 --> 00:02:12.465 WHEN YOU'RE READY, YOU MAY 00:02:12.532 --> 00:02:14.267 BEGIN. THANK YOU. IS THERE 00:02:14.334 --> 00:02:17.036 ANYONE ELSE WISHING TO JOIN? 00:02:17.103 --> 00:02:18.838 OKAY. YOU MAY BEGIN. THANK YOU 00:02:18.905 --> 00:02:20.740 VERY MUCH, MADAM CHAIR. GOOD 00:02:20.807 --> 00:02:21.774 MORNING. GOOD MORNING, 00:02:21.841 --> 00:02:23.209 HONORABLE MEMBERS. 00:02:23.276 --> 00:02:24.344 REPRESENTATIVES OF TRIBAL 00:02:24.410 --> 00:02:26.112 GOVERNMENTS, INCLUDING TRIBAL 00:02:26.179 --> 00:02:27.313 CHAIRS, WHO ARE HERE TODAY. AND 00:02:27.380 --> 00:02:28.381 OF COURSE, GOOD MORNING TO 00:02:28.448 --> 00:02:30.149 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. BEFORE I 00:02:30.216 --> 00:02:32.218 LAUNCH INTO THE SPECIFICS OF 00:02:32.285 --> 00:02:34.787 THIS PARTICULAR COMPACT, 00:02:34.854 --> 00:02:35.855 COMPACT AMENDMENT, I THOUGHT IT 00:02:35.922 --> 00:02:37.056 MIGHT BE HELPFUL JUST TO ENGAGE 00:02:37.123 --> 00:02:38.892 IN A LITTLE BIT OF TABLE 00:02:38.958 --> 00:02:40.560 SETTING AROUND. YOU KNOW, WHAT 00:02:40.627 --> 00:02:42.996 IS THE FEDERAL LAW THAT WE'RE 00:02:43.062 --> 00:02:44.797 WORKING UNDER HERE TODAY AND 00:02:44.864 --> 00:02:46.633 WHAT SOME OF THE BACKGROUND AND 00:02:46.699 --> 00:02:48.635 CONTEXT THAT HAS LED US TO SOME 00:02:48.701 --> 00:02:49.769 OF THE COMPACTS AND COMPACT 00:02:49.836 --> 00:02:51.337 AMENDMENTS THAT THAT THIS 00:02:51.404 --> 00:02:52.338 COMMITTEE IS GOING TO HEAR 00:02:52.405 --> 00:02:55.241 ABOUT THIS MORNING. THERE IS A 00:02:55.308 --> 00:02:56.476 FEDERAL LAW CALLED THE INDIAN 00:02:56.543 --> 00:02:59.245 GAMING REGULATORY ACT, OR IGRA, 00:02:59.312 --> 00:03:03.182 THAT GOVERNS HOW CASINO STYLE 00:03:03.249 --> 00:03:05.718 GAMING ON TRIBAL LAND IS TO 00:03:05.785 --> 00:03:07.487 TAKE PLACE. AND IT'S SORT OF AN 00:03:07.554 --> 00:03:09.322 UNUSUAL FEDERAL LAW IN THAT IT 00:03:09.389 --> 00:03:12.191 TELLS, YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE 00:03:12.258 --> 00:03:12.859 SOVEREIGN, THE FEDERAL 00:03:12.926 --> 00:03:14.727 GOVERNMENT, TELLING TWO OTHER 00:03:14.794 --> 00:03:16.563 SOVEREIGNS TO GET TOGETHER. YOU 00:03:16.629 --> 00:03:18.298 KNOW, THIS IS A TRIBAL 00:03:18.364 --> 00:03:19.299 GOVERNMENT AND A STATE 00:03:19.365 --> 00:03:21.167 GOVERNMENT WHO ARE GETTING 00:03:21.234 --> 00:03:22.602 TOGETHER UNDER THE AUSPICES OF 00:03:22.669 --> 00:03:26.239 THIS FEDERAL LAW TO TRY TO 00:03:26.306 --> 00:03:28.741 NEGOTIATE A TRIBAL STATE GAMING 00:03:28.808 --> 00:03:31.277 COMPACT TO REGULATE ACTIVITIES 00:03:31.344 --> 00:03:33.079 THAT ARE DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO 00:03:33.146 --> 00:03:34.847 THAT CLASS THREE, GAMING ON 00:03:34.914 --> 00:03:36.015 TRIBAL LAND. AND TO DO THAT, 00:03:36.082 --> 00:03:39.185 THERE ARE CONSTRAINTS ON HOW 00:03:39.252 --> 00:03:42.388 THE STATE CAN NEGOTIATE AND IN 00:03:42.455 --> 00:03:44.190 PARTICULAR, WHAT IT CAN BARGAIN 00:03:44.257 --> 00:03:45.692 OVER. IT CAN'T JUST BARGAIN 00:03:45.758 --> 00:03:46.893 OVER THE WHOLE UNIVERSE. THERE 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:49.329 IS A LIST OF SEVEN TOPICS IN 00:03:49.395 --> 00:03:51.064 THAT FEDERAL LAW THAT WERE 00:03:51.130 --> 00:03:52.131 PERMITTED TO BARGAIN OVER, AND 00:03:52.198 --> 00:03:53.600 WE CAN'T BARGAIN OUTSIDE THAT 00:03:53.666 --> 00:03:57.904 SEVEN TOPIC LIST. WE ALWAYS TRY 00:03:57.971 --> 00:03:59.405 TO REACH A DEAL, AND WE ARE 00:03:59.472 --> 00:04:01.341 OFTEN ABLE TO REACH A DEAL. AND 00:04:01.407 --> 00:04:04.777 IN ALL OF THE COMPACTS AND 00:04:04.844 --> 00:04:06.779 COMPACT, COMPACT AMENDMENTS 00:04:06.846 --> 00:04:07.880 THAT YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT THIS 00:04:07.947 --> 00:04:09.382 MORNING, SAVE ONE, WE HAVE, IN 00:04:09.449 --> 00:04:10.984 FACT, BEEN ABLE TO REACH A DEAL, 00:04:11.050 --> 00:04:12.285 AND WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL FOR 00:04:12.352 --> 00:04:14.020 THAT. IF THE STATE AND THE 00:04:14.087 --> 00:04:15.555 TRIBE ARE NOT ABLE TO REACH A 00:04:15.622 --> 00:04:17.690 DEAL THAT CAN GIVE RISE TO 00:04:17.757 --> 00:04:19.492 LITIGATION, THE TRIBE CAN SUE 00:04:19.559 --> 00:04:21.694 THE STATE IN FEDERAL COURT, 00:04:21.761 --> 00:04:23.396 ARGUING THAT THE STATE HAS 00:04:23.463 --> 00:04:26.332 FAILED TO BARGAIN IN GOOD FAITH. 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:29.168 AND IF THE TRIBE THAT SUES THE 00:04:29.235 --> 00:04:31.004 STATE IS SUCCESSFUL IN THAT 00:04:31.070 --> 00:04:32.005 LAWSUIT, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT 00:04:32.071 --> 00:04:34.207 CAN ULTIMATELY HAPPEN IS THE 00:04:34.273 --> 00:04:36.776 STATE CAN LOSE ITS POWER TO 00:04:36.843 --> 00:04:38.745 HAVE ANY SAY IN THE REGULATION 00:04:38.811 --> 00:04:40.480 OF TRIBAL GAMING AT ALL. TRIBES 00:04:40.546 --> 00:04:42.582 CAN INSTEAD GAME UNDER WHAT ARE 00:04:42.649 --> 00:04:44.550 CALLED SECRETARIAL PROCEDURES. 00:04:44.617 --> 00:04:45.718 THESE ARE PROCEDURES THAT ARE 00:04:45.785 --> 00:04:48.087 ISSUED BY THE FEDERAL SECRETARY 00:04:48.154 --> 00:04:51.491 OF THE INTERIOR WITHOUT 00:04:51.557 --> 00:04:52.659 NECESSARILY STATE INPUT. SO 00:04:52.725 --> 00:04:54.060 THAT'S AN OUTCOME THAT WE TRY 00:04:54.127 --> 00:04:57.664 TO AVOID. IT IS AN OUTCOME THAT 00:04:57.730 --> 00:05:00.533 THE STATE HAS FACED WITH 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:02.301 INCREASING FREQUENCY IN THE 00:05:02.368 --> 00:05:04.804 PAST COUPLE YEARS, SINCE THE 00:05:04.871 --> 00:05:06.606 FEDERAL APPELLATE COURT FOR THE 00:05:06.673 --> 00:05:09.142 WEST COAST, THE NINTH CIRCUIT 00:05:09.208 --> 00:05:10.943 DECIDED A CASE CALLED CHICKEN 00:05:11.010 --> 00:05:14.547 RANCH THAT HAS SIGNIFICANTLY 00:05:14.614 --> 00:05:15.982 RESTRICTED WHAT THE STATE HAD 00:05:16.049 --> 00:05:19.585 PREVIOUSLY UNDERSTOOD. IT'S 00:05:19.652 --> 00:05:20.987 PERMISSIBLE SCOPE OF BARGAINING 00:05:21.054 --> 00:05:23.156 UNDER IGRA TO BE. AND SO SINCE 00:05:23.222 --> 00:05:26.059 CHICKEN RANCH, THE STATE HAS ON 00:05:26.125 --> 00:05:28.661 ONE HAND, YOU KNOW, BOTH TRIED 00:05:28.728 --> 00:05:30.396 TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS 00:05:30.463 --> 00:05:31.798 CLEANING UP ITS EXISTING 00:05:31.864 --> 00:05:33.666 COMPACTS IN WAYS THAT ARE 00:05:33.733 --> 00:05:35.068 CONSISTENT WITH CHICKEN RANCH 00:05:35.134 --> 00:05:38.271 UNDER CHICKEN RANCH IN 00:05:38.337 --> 00:05:39.772 PARTICULAR, THE STATE IS NO 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:41.140 LONGER ABLE TO BARGAIN FOR 00:05:41.207 --> 00:05:44.377 TERMS LIKE SEQUA STYLE, 00:05:44.444 --> 00:05:46.179 ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW, FAMILY 00:05:46.245 --> 00:05:49.849 LAW TERMS RELATED TO THE 00:05:49.916 --> 00:05:51.651 REQUIRED PAYMENT OF CHILD AND 00:05:51.718 --> 00:05:54.487 SPOUSAL SUPPORT, VERY BROAD 00:05:54.554 --> 00:05:55.955 CONCEPTIONS OF POTENTIAL TORT 00:05:56.022 --> 00:05:57.757 LIABILITY, AND A VERY BROAD 00:05:57.824 --> 00:06:01.360 CONCEPTION OF WHAT WE CALL THE 00:06:01.427 --> 00:06:04.530 GAMING FACILITY, WHICH IS THE 00:06:04.597 --> 00:06:06.032 CASINO BUILDING THAT THESE 00:06:06.099 --> 00:06:08.568 COMPACTS OFTEN REGULATE. SO 00:06:08.634 --> 00:06:09.736 WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO CLEAN UP 00:06:09.802 --> 00:06:11.571 OUR COMPACTS IN WAYS THAT ARE 00:06:11.637 --> 00:06:12.872 CONSISTENT WITH CHICKEN RANCH. 00:06:12.939 --> 00:06:14.340 WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO THINK 00:06:14.407 --> 00:06:16.876 VERY CAREFULLY ABOUT WHAT ARE 00:06:16.943 --> 00:06:18.344 THE CORE PRIORITIES THAT THE 00:06:18.411 --> 00:06:19.712 STATE THINKS IT CAN BARGAIN 00:06:19.779 --> 00:06:20.813 OVER, THAT IT WANTS TO MAKE 00:06:20.880 --> 00:06:23.649 SURE IT IS PRIORITIZING IN ALL 00:06:23.716 --> 00:06:25.551 OF ITS BARGAINING. AND WE'VE 00:06:25.618 --> 00:06:30.523 ALSO BEEN FACING A NUMBER OF 00:06:30.590 --> 00:06:31.724 LAWSUITS AND OTHER PUSHBACK 00:06:31.791 --> 00:06:34.827 FROM TRIBES WITH EXISTING 00:06:34.894 --> 00:06:36.629 COMPACTS THAT PREDATE CHICKEN 00:06:36.696 --> 00:06:38.164 RANCH, THAT MAY DISAGREE WITH 00:06:38.231 --> 00:06:39.632 US ABOUT THE SCOPE AND IMPACT 00:06:39.699 --> 00:06:42.301 OF THAT DECISION AND THAT, IN 00:06:42.368 --> 00:06:45.404 SOME CASES HAVE BROUGHT, YOU 00:06:45.471 --> 00:06:47.440 KNOW, NEW ADDITIONAL LITIGATION 00:06:47.507 --> 00:06:48.808 TRYING TO CHALLENGE THOSE 00:06:48.875 --> 00:06:52.111 EXISTING COMPACTS IN WAYS THAT 00:06:52.178 --> 00:06:54.280 OBVIOUSLY GENERATE A LOT OF, 00:06:54.347 --> 00:06:56.916 YOU KNOW, THAT ARE STILL 00:06:56.983 --> 00:06:58.551 ACTIVELY BEING LITIGATED RIGHT 00:06:58.618 --> 00:06:59.552 NOW, AND THAT THEREFORE 00:06:59.619 --> 00:07:01.487 GENERATE A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY. 00:07:01.554 --> 00:07:03.656 SO, ONE, AS, AS WE'VE BEEN 00:07:03.723 --> 00:07:05.691 WORKING TO, YOU KNOW, CLEAN UP 00:07:05.758 --> 00:07:07.193 OUR COMPACTS IN WAYS THAT ARE 00:07:07.260 --> 00:07:08.394 CONSISTENT WITH CHICKEN RANCH 00:07:08.461 --> 00:07:11.264 TO PRIORITIZE AND BE THOUGHTFUL 00:07:11.330 --> 00:07:13.699 ABOUT WHAT THE STATE IS 00:07:13.766 --> 00:07:14.834 PRIORITIZING IN ITS COMPACT 00:07:14.901 --> 00:07:16.269 BARGAINING AND LOOKING FOR WAYS 00:07:16.335 --> 00:07:18.437 TO AVOID THE BURDEN AND 00:07:18.504 --> 00:07:20.973 UNCERTAINTY OF LITIGATION. AND, 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:22.775 YOU KNOW, OTHERWISE PROTECT THE 00:07:22.842 --> 00:07:24.544 THINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO IT. 00:07:24.610 --> 00:07:27.413 IN A CHICKEN RANCH WORLD. WHAT 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:29.615 YOU HAVE HERE TODAY, IN LARGE 00:07:29.682 --> 00:07:33.219 PART, IS A A NUMBER OF TRIBAL 00:07:33.286 --> 00:07:34.320 GOVERNMENTS WHO HAVE BEEN 00:07:34.387 --> 00:07:35.354 EXCELLENT PARTNERS TO THE STATE, 00:07:35.421 --> 00:07:36.956 WHO HAVE REALLY STEPPED UP TO 00:07:37.023 --> 00:07:38.591 HELP US WORK THROUGH THAT 00:07:38.658 --> 00:07:39.992 PROCESS, WHO ARE NOT IN ANY 00:07:40.059 --> 00:07:42.595 KIND OF LITIGATION OR 00:07:42.662 --> 00:07:43.629 LITIGATION OR OTHERWISE 00:07:43.696 --> 00:07:44.964 ADVERSARIAL POSTURE WITH THE 00:07:45.031 --> 00:07:48.234 STATE. AND YOU SEE A SERIES OF 00:07:48.301 --> 00:07:50.369 COMPACT, COMPACT AMENDMENTS 00:07:50.436 --> 00:07:51.871 REFLECTING THAT, WHERE THESE 00:07:51.938 --> 00:07:53.272 ARE TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS THAT ARE 00:07:53.339 --> 00:07:55.441 WILLING TO PUBLICLY AFFIRM THAT 00:07:55.508 --> 00:07:58.110 AS TO CERTAIN TERMS THAT HAVE 00:07:58.177 --> 00:08:00.213 BEEN VERY CONTENTIOUS IN A IN A 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:02.715 POST CHICKEN RANCH WORLD, THESE 00:08:02.782 --> 00:08:05.151 TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS ARE WILLING 00:08:05.218 --> 00:08:08.387 TO PUBLICLY DISAVOW ANY 00:08:08.454 --> 00:08:09.856 INTENTION OF BRINGING 00:08:09.922 --> 00:08:11.257 LITIGATION OVER THOSE 00:08:11.324 --> 00:08:13.125 PARTICULAR TERMS IN EXCHANGE 00:08:13.192 --> 00:08:15.995 FOR A LITTLE MORE FLEXIBILITY 00:08:16.062 --> 00:08:17.396 ON SOME OF THE OTHER COMPACT 00:08:17.463 --> 00:08:18.798 TERMS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO 00:08:18.865 --> 00:08:20.299 THEM. SO THAT'S THAT'S THE 00:08:20.366 --> 00:08:21.801 BASIC TABLE SETTING FOR A LOT 00:08:21.868 --> 00:08:23.502 OF THE AMENDMENTS YOU ARE GOING 00:08:23.569 --> 00:08:28.241 TO SEE HERE TODAY. FIRST UP IS 00:08:28.307 --> 00:08:31.410 AGUA CALIENTE. AND WHAT WE HAVE 00:08:31.477 --> 00:08:35.448 IN THIS AMENDMENT IS JUST TO 00:08:35.514 --> 00:08:36.883 EXPAND A LITTLE BIT ON THOSE 00:08:36.949 --> 00:08:39.719 TERMS THAT YOU WILL SEE THESE 00:08:39.785 --> 00:08:41.554 TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS PROMISING 00:08:41.621 --> 00:08:44.090 NOT TO SUE OVER. THERE ARE 00:08:44.156 --> 00:08:45.958 THREE IMPORTANT REVENUE TERMS 00:08:46.025 --> 00:08:47.393 THAT ARE WORTH FLAGGING IN 00:08:47.460 --> 00:08:48.494 THESE COMPACTS. THERE'S 00:08:48.561 --> 00:08:50.196 SOMETHING CALLED THE SPECIAL 00:08:50.263 --> 00:08:51.230 DISTRIBUTION FUND, WHICH IS 00:08:51.297 --> 00:08:53.833 INTENDED TO DEFRAY THE STATE'S 00:08:53.900 --> 00:08:55.568 REGULATORY COSTS. THERE IS 00:08:55.635 --> 00:08:57.036 SOMETHING CALLED THE REVENUE 00:08:57.103 --> 00:08:58.804 SHARING TRUST FUND, WHICH LA 00:08:58.871 --> 00:09:00.640 WHICH TRIBES WITH LARGE GAMING 00:09:00.706 --> 00:09:03.142 OPERATIONS PAY INTO, AND THAT'S 00:09:03.209 --> 00:09:04.210 REDISTRIBUTED TO TRIBES THAT 00:09:04.277 --> 00:09:05.311 EITHER DON'T GAIN OR HAVE 00:09:05.378 --> 00:09:07.480 SMALLER GAMING OPERATIONS THAT 00:09:07.546 --> 00:09:08.981 TENDS TO RUN A SURPLUS. AND SO 00:09:09.048 --> 00:09:10.349 THERE'S ALSO A THING CALLED THE 00:09:10.416 --> 00:09:12.852 TRIBAL NATION GRANT FUND THAT 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:14.086 ALLOCATES THAT SURPLUS IN WAYS 00:09:14.153 --> 00:09:15.588 THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH THAT 00:09:15.655 --> 00:09:17.223 SAME UNDERLYING PURPOSE OF THE 00:09:17.290 --> 00:09:19.125 RCF. SO WHAT WE HAVE HERE TODAY 00:09:19.191 --> 00:09:20.860 IS A PROMISE FROM THE TRIBE NOT 00:09:20.927 --> 00:09:22.628 TO SUE OVER THOSE THREE TERMS, 00:09:22.695 --> 00:09:24.030 WHICH HAVE BEEN VERY 00:09:24.096 --> 00:09:26.866 CONTENTIOUS IN OTHER CONTEXTS. 00:09:26.933 --> 00:09:29.435 IN EXCHANGE, YOU SEE A 00:09:29.502 --> 00:09:31.570 RESTRUCTURING OF THE TRIBE'S 00:09:31.637 --> 00:09:34.807 OBLIGATION TO PAY INTO THE RSTF. 00:09:34.874 --> 00:09:37.643 THAT'S IT'S IN BROAD STROKES. 00:09:37.710 --> 00:09:40.579 YOU SEE A LARGER LUMP SUM 00:09:40.646 --> 00:09:42.081 PAYMENT AND A SMALLER PER 00:09:42.148 --> 00:09:43.149 DEVICE VARIABLE PAYMENT. WE 00:09:43.215 --> 00:09:44.517 DON'T ANTICIPATE THAT THIS WILL 00:09:44.583 --> 00:09:47.086 RESULT IN A NET REDUCTION OF 00:09:47.153 --> 00:09:48.487 PAYMENTS INTO THE RCF, BUT IT 00:09:48.554 --> 00:09:52.858 IS A RESTRUCTURING. YOU SEE A 00:09:52.925 --> 00:09:54.093 MODEST NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL 00:09:54.160 --> 00:09:56.796 GAMING DEVICES, 500 500 00:09:56.862 --> 00:09:57.863 ADDITIONAL DEVICES AND SOME 00:09:57.930 --> 00:10:00.366 MORE FLEXIBILITY ON WHERE THOSE 00:10:00.433 --> 00:10:02.201 DEVICES COULD BE PLACED, SOME 00:10:02.268 --> 00:10:03.602 MORE FLEXIBILITY ON THINGS LIKE 00:10:03.669 --> 00:10:05.037 BUILDING CODES THAT STANDARD 00:10:05.104 --> 00:10:06.906 CHICKEN RANCH CLEANUP I WAS 00:10:06.973 --> 00:10:09.809 REFERRING TO EARLIER, A COMPACT 00:10:09.875 --> 00:10:11.610 TERM THAT GOES OUT TO 2061. I 00:10:11.677 --> 00:10:12.778 THINK THOSE ARE THE KEY TERMS 00:10:12.845 --> 00:10:14.246 OF THIS PARTICULAR AMENDMENT. 00:10:14.313 --> 00:10:15.114 BUT HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY 00:10:15.181 --> 00:10:17.683 QUESTIONS. OF COURSE. THANK YOU, 00:10:17.750 --> 00:10:19.819 MISS LEE. AT THIS TIME, I'D 00:10:19.885 --> 00:10:22.722 LIKE TO INVITE JEFF KIRBY, 00:10:22.788 --> 00:10:24.223 WHO'S CHAIRMAN OF AGUA CALIENTE 00:10:24.290 --> 00:10:26.625 BAND OF. OH, I'M SO SORRY. I 00:10:26.692 --> 00:10:28.594 JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE 00:10:28.661 --> 00:10:29.695 KNOW THAT HE'S GOING TO BE 00:10:29.762 --> 00:10:30.997 JOINING US REMOTELY. AND SO 00:10:31.063 --> 00:10:32.665 HE'S STANDING BY. BUT BEFORE WE 00:10:32.732 --> 00:10:34.567 DO, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER 00:10:34.633 --> 00:10:36.302 TO MY COLLEAGUE HERE, SENATOR 00:10:36.369 --> 00:10:37.837 BLAKE SPEAR. YES, THANK YOU. 00:10:37.903 --> 00:10:40.806 CHAIR, I JUST WANTED TO ASK A 00:10:40.873 --> 00:10:41.807 QUESTION OF THE INTRODUCTION. 00:10:41.874 --> 00:10:43.275 IS THAT OKAY? ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. 00:10:43.342 --> 00:10:45.711 THANK YOU. SO IN A POST CHICKEN 00:10:45.778 --> 00:10:47.480 RANCH WORLD, CAN YOU JUST GIVE 00:10:47.546 --> 00:10:48.714 A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL ABOUT 00:10:48.781 --> 00:10:50.783 WHAT IS WHAT ARE THE 00:10:50.850 --> 00:10:52.952 REQUIREMENTS THAT APPLY? AND 00:10:53.019 --> 00:10:54.120 ALSO, CAN YOU CLARIFY, IS THIS 00:10:54.186 --> 00:10:55.955 SEQUA AS IT APPLIES TO ANY 00:10:56.022 --> 00:10:57.623 THING THAT'S BUILT LIKE HOUSING, 00:10:57.690 --> 00:10:59.325 OR IS IT ONLY FOR CASINOS THAT 00:10:59.392 --> 00:11:02.628 ARE BUILT? GREAT QUESTION, AND 00:11:02.695 --> 00:11:04.096 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ASKING. 00:11:04.163 --> 00:11:06.265 SO THE STARTING POINT FOR THIS 00:11:06.332 --> 00:11:07.833 IS THAT AS A GENERAL MATTER, 00:11:07.900 --> 00:11:10.169 THE STATE DOESN'T HAVE 00:11:10.236 --> 00:11:11.637 REGULATORY JURISDICTION OVER 00:11:11.704 --> 00:11:13.072 TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS ON TRIBAL 00:11:13.139 --> 00:11:15.608 LAND. SO WE ARE NOT ABLE TO 00:11:15.674 --> 00:11:17.743 APPLY SEQUA TO TRIBAL 00:11:17.810 --> 00:11:19.011 GOVERNMENTS. WHAT HAD HAPPENED 00:11:19.078 --> 00:11:22.815 IN THE PAST WAS THAT THE STATE 00:11:22.882 --> 00:11:26.419 HAD BARGAINED FOR SEQUA STYLE 00:11:26.485 --> 00:11:31.157 ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AS A TERM 00:11:31.223 --> 00:11:35.061 IN THE COMPACT SEQUA TYPE 00:11:35.127 --> 00:11:36.796 PROJECTS RELATED TO THE GAMING 00:11:36.862 --> 00:11:38.264 FACILITY AND UNDER CHICKEN 00:11:38.330 --> 00:11:39.331 RANCH, THAT THAT THAT'S 00:11:39.398 --> 00:11:40.399 SOMETHING THAT WE'RE NO LONGER 00:11:40.466 --> 00:11:44.703 ABLE TO DO. OKAY. THANK YOU. SO 00:11:44.770 --> 00:11:46.005 JUST TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE 00:11:46.072 --> 00:11:48.140 SPECIFIC, SO IS THERE SOME SORT 00:11:48.207 --> 00:11:49.842 OF ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW BEFORE 00:11:49.909 --> 00:11:51.944 DEVELOPMENT HAPPENS OR IS IT I 00:11:52.011 --> 00:11:53.813 MEAN, THERE HAS TO BE SOME SOME 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:55.147 SORT OF HEALTH AND SAFETY, LIKE 00:11:55.214 --> 00:11:58.017 FIRE HAZARD OR, OR POLLUTING A 00:11:58.084 --> 00:12:00.953 WATERWAY THAT RUNS INTO NON 00:12:01.020 --> 00:12:02.121 TRIBAL LAND. I MEAN, THERE HAS 00:12:02.188 --> 00:12:03.956 TO BE SOMETHING IN THAT AREA, 00:12:04.023 --> 00:12:07.393 RIGHT? THERE ARE THERE ARE 00:12:07.460 --> 00:12:09.228 HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARDS IN 00:12:09.295 --> 00:12:12.098 THESE COMPACTS, BUILDING CODES, 00:12:12.164 --> 00:12:13.165 PLUMBING CODES, ELECTRICAL 00:12:13.232 --> 00:12:14.533 CODES, FIRE CODES, THINGS LIKE 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:16.068 THAT. THERE ARE SEPARATE 00:12:16.135 --> 00:12:17.536 STANDARDS ABOUT WATER QUALITY, 00:12:17.603 --> 00:12:20.072 IN PARTICULAR FOOD AND BEVERAGE 00:12:20.139 --> 00:12:21.841 SAFETY WITHIN THE GAMING 00:12:21.907 --> 00:12:23.209 FACILITY IS SOMETHING ELSE WE 00:12:23.275 --> 00:12:24.677 BARGAINED FOR. SO WE DO TRY 00:12:24.743 --> 00:12:27.246 HARD TO BARGAIN FOR EACH OF 00:12:27.313 --> 00:12:28.814 THOSE KINDS OF PUBLIC HEALTH 00:12:28.881 --> 00:12:30.449 AND SAFETY IMPACTS THAT YOU 00:12:30.516 --> 00:12:34.086 JUST IDENTIFIED. YES. AND AND 00:12:34.153 --> 00:12:35.454 THAT'S IN THE POST CHICKEN 00:12:35.521 --> 00:12:37.123 RANCH WORLD. YES. THE CHICKEN 00:12:37.189 --> 00:12:38.491 RANCH WORLD. YES. THAT'S RIGHT. 00:12:38.557 --> 00:12:39.525 AND THAT'S SEPARATE FROM THE 00:12:39.592 --> 00:12:42.361 SORT OF BROADER OVERARCHING PRE 00:12:42.428 --> 00:12:43.429 CHICKEN RANCH ENVIRONMENTAL 00:12:43.496 --> 00:12:44.663 REVIEW THAT WE USED TO BARGAIN 00:12:44.730 --> 00:12:46.732 FOR. YES. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:48.467 VERY MUCH. THANK YOU CHAIR. 00:12:48.534 --> 00:12:52.071 THANK YOU. WELL, SINCE WE ASKED 00:12:52.138 --> 00:12:53.172 QUESTIONS, I'LL ASK MY 00:12:53.239 --> 00:12:54.940 COLLEAGUE IF THERE'S ANY OTHER 00:12:55.007 --> 00:12:57.443 QUESTIONS FOR. OKAY. SO NOW I 00:12:57.510 --> 00:13:01.814 WILL MOVE OVER TO CHAIRMAN JEFF 00:13:01.881 --> 00:13:04.350 RUBY. IF YOU WANT TO JOIN US 00:13:04.416 --> 00:13:06.285 AND YOU MAY START IF YOU HAVE 00:13:06.352 --> 00:13:07.286 ANY COMMENTS, QUESTIONS OR 00:13:07.353 --> 00:13:09.388 CONCERNS. THANK YOU, I 00:13:09.455 --> 00:13:10.422 APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU, 00:13:10.489 --> 00:13:11.857 MADAM CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE 00:13:11.924 --> 00:13:13.692 COMMITTEE. I'M JEFF RUBY, 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:16.929 CHAIRMAN OF THE BAND OF INDIANS. 00:13:16.996 --> 00:13:18.330 MY TRIBE IS FEDERALLY 00:13:18.397 --> 00:13:19.465 RECOGNIZED INDIAN TRIBE LOCATED 00:13:19.532 --> 00:13:21.934 IN THE COACHELLA VALLEY WITHIN 00:13:22.001 --> 00:13:24.436 RIVERSIDE, RIVERSIDE COUNTY, 00:13:24.503 --> 00:13:25.771 SORRY. THE TRIBAL HEADQUARTERS 00:13:25.838 --> 00:13:28.440 ARE LOCATED IN PALM SPRINGS, 00:13:28.507 --> 00:13:29.942 LARGE PORTIONS OF THE CITIES OF 00:13:30.009 --> 00:13:32.011 PALM SPRINGS, RANCHO MIRAGE AND 00:13:32.077 --> 00:13:34.246 CATHEDRAL CITY ARE ON OUR 00:13:34.313 --> 00:13:35.114 RESERVATION, WHICH INCLUDES 00:13:35.181 --> 00:13:38.484 ABOUT 34,000 ACRES SET OUT IN A 00:13:38.551 --> 00:13:39.585 CHECKERBOARD PATTERN. OUR 00:13:39.652 --> 00:13:40.653 TRIBAL GOVERNMENT PROVIDES A 00:13:40.719 --> 00:13:42.521 WIDE VARIETY OF SERVICES AND 00:13:42.588 --> 00:13:44.256 BENEFITS TO TRIBAL MEMBERS, 00:13:44.323 --> 00:13:45.257 INCLUDING THOSE RELATED TO 00:13:45.324 --> 00:13:46.392 HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION, 00:13:46.458 --> 00:13:48.260 CULTURAL PRESERVATION, AND 00:13:48.327 --> 00:13:51.430 GENERAL WELFARE. WE CONTINUALLY 00:13:51.497 --> 00:13:52.598 COLLABORATE WITH OUR LOCAL 00:13:52.665 --> 00:13:53.966 GOVERNMENTS AND COMMUNITIES ON 00:13:54.033 --> 00:13:55.734 PUBLIC SAFETY INFRASTRUCTURE 00:13:55.801 --> 00:13:57.203 ISSUES, AS WELL AS OTHER 00:13:57.269 --> 00:13:58.971 PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES TO 00:13:59.038 --> 00:14:01.207 ADDRESS SHARED CONCERNS. WE 00:14:01.273 --> 00:14:03.342 EMPLOY APPROXIMATELY 3200 TEAM 00:14:03.409 --> 00:14:04.877 MEMBERS WORKING WITHIN GAMING 00:14:04.944 --> 00:14:07.246 AND NON-GAMING TRIBAL ECONOMIC 00:14:07.313 --> 00:14:08.681 DEVELOPMENT VENTURES, AND THE 00:14:08.747 --> 00:14:10.349 TRIBE IS ONE OF THE LARGEST 00:14:10.416 --> 00:14:11.350 EMPLOYERS WITHIN THE COACHELLA 00:14:11.417 --> 00:14:13.752 VALLEY. IN ADDITION TO GAMING 00:14:13.819 --> 00:14:15.187 PROPERTIES, WE OPERATE TWO GOLF 00:14:15.254 --> 00:14:17.356 COURSES, MULTIPLE RESTAURANTS 00:14:17.423 --> 00:14:19.525 AND ENTERTAINMENT VENUE, OTHER 00:14:19.592 --> 00:14:21.060 NON-GAMING BUSINESSES, 00:14:21.126 --> 00:14:22.494 RECREATIONAL AREAS OPEN TO THE 00:14:22.561 --> 00:14:24.263 PUBLIC, AND WE MANAGE EXTENSIVE 00:14:24.330 --> 00:14:25.631 REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS FOR 00:14:25.698 --> 00:14:27.466 COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL 00:14:27.533 --> 00:14:29.301 DEVELOPMENT. THE TRIBE ALSO 00:14:29.368 --> 00:14:31.070 OPERATES THE MUSEUM AND THE 00:14:31.136 --> 00:14:33.706 WORLD CLASS SPA AT CITY. WITHIN 00:14:33.772 --> 00:14:35.741 OUR NEWLY CONSTRUCTED CULTURAL 00:14:35.808 --> 00:14:37.276 PLAZA, WHICH IS AN EXAMPLE OF A 00:14:37.343 --> 00:14:39.311 GREAT PROJECT THAT WAS A DIRECT 00:14:39.378 --> 00:14:43.282 RESULT OF OUR 2016 COMPACT 00:14:43.349 --> 00:14:44.750 NEGOTIATION. I'M PLEASED TO BE 00:14:44.817 --> 00:14:46.919 HERE AS AS AGUA CALIENTE SEEKS 00:14:46.986 --> 00:14:49.054 THE LEGISLATURE'S SUPPORT TO 00:14:49.121 --> 00:14:50.522 RATIFY THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO 00:14:50.589 --> 00:14:52.291 THE CURRENT TRIBAL STATE 00:14:52.358 --> 00:14:54.460 COMPACT BETWEEN THE STATE OF 00:14:54.526 --> 00:14:55.894 CALIFORNIA. MY TRIBE. THE 00:14:55.961 --> 00:14:57.696 MAJORITY OF THE INDIAN 00:14:57.763 --> 00:14:59.465 AMENDMENTS BEFORE YOU TODAY ARE 00:14:59.531 --> 00:15:00.899 UPDATES TO ALIGN OUR COMPACT 00:15:00.966 --> 00:15:03.769 WITH RECENT CHANGES IN LAW THAT 00:15:03.836 --> 00:15:05.271 PRIMARILY PRIMARILY COME AS A 00:15:05.337 --> 00:15:07.072 RESULT OF THE NINTH CIRCUIT'S 00:15:07.139 --> 00:15:09.608 DECISION IN THE CHICKEN RANCH 00:15:09.675 --> 00:15:11.677 RANCHERIA VERSUS CALIFORNIA. 00:15:11.744 --> 00:15:12.745 ADDITIONALLY, THE TRIBE AND THE 00:15:12.811 --> 00:15:14.246 STATE USES AMENDMENT 00:15:14.313 --> 00:15:16.382 OPPORTUNITY TO SIMPLIFY REVENUE 00:15:16.448 --> 00:15:18.250 SHARING OBLIGATIONS. THIS 00:15:18.317 --> 00:15:20.753 ALLOWS A PATH TO GROWTH FOR OUR 00:15:20.819 --> 00:15:22.521 GAMING FACILITIES, AND ALSO 00:15:22.588 --> 00:15:23.956 PRESERVES OUR LONG STANDING 00:15:24.023 --> 00:15:25.424 COMMITMENT TO SUPPORT LIMITED 00:15:25.491 --> 00:15:27.559 AND NON-GAMING TRIBES. WORKING 00:15:27.626 --> 00:15:28.794 WITH GOVERNOR NEWSOM, HIS 00:15:28.861 --> 00:15:30.796 SENIOR ADVISOR FOR TRIBAL 00:15:30.863 --> 00:15:31.997 NEGOTIATIONS, MATTHEW LEE, AND 00:15:32.064 --> 00:15:33.732 THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S TRIBAL 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:35.834 COMPACT ADVISORS WAS A 00:15:35.901 --> 00:15:36.969 STRAIGHTFORWARD, EFFICIENT, AND 00:15:37.036 --> 00:15:39.071 MOST IMPORTANTLY, A RESPECTFUL 00:15:39.138 --> 00:15:40.906 PROCESS. I'D LIKE TO THANK THEM 00:15:40.973 --> 00:15:42.207 FOR THEIR WORK. AND THANK YOU, 00:15:42.274 --> 00:15:43.809 MADAM CHAIR AND MEMBERS, FOR 00:15:43.876 --> 00:15:44.877 ALLOWING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO 00:15:44.943 --> 00:15:46.645 PROVIDE MY COMMENTS TODAY. I'M 00:15:46.712 --> 00:15:48.447 LOOKING FORWARD TO THE 00:15:48.514 --> 00:15:49.114 LEGISLATIVE RATIFICATION OF 00:15:49.181 --> 00:15:53.118 THIS FIRST AMENDMENT. THANK YOU 00:15:53.185 --> 00:15:56.355 SO MUCH. I'M GOING TO TURN IT 00:15:56.422 --> 00:15:57.456 OVER ONCE AGAIN. ANY OTHER 00:15:57.523 --> 00:15:59.925 COMMENTS BEFORE I ASK FOR MY 00:15:59.992 --> 00:16:01.727 OWN EDUCATION? AND I'M SORRY. 00:16:01.794 --> 00:16:03.195 YOU KNOW, I DO APPRECIATE THE 00:16:03.262 --> 00:16:04.630 COMMENT FROM MY COLLEAGUE, 00:16:04.697 --> 00:16:06.465 SENATOR BLAKE SPEAR IN TERMS OF, 00:16:06.532 --> 00:16:07.866 YOU KNOW, JUST UNDERSTANDING 00:16:07.933 --> 00:16:09.301 THAT EVEN THOUGH IT'S A TRIBAL 00:16:09.368 --> 00:16:10.803 RESERVATION, I MEAN, THERE'S 00:16:10.869 --> 00:16:13.272 IMPLICATIONS TO OUR SAFETY. I'M 00:16:13.339 --> 00:16:14.740 CURIOUS, AND I KNOW I HEARD YOU 00:16:14.807 --> 00:16:16.175 SAY THAT YOU COLLABORATE ON 00:16:16.241 --> 00:16:17.976 PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES, 00:16:18.043 --> 00:16:19.044 CONSIDERING THERE ARE SO MANY 00:16:19.111 --> 00:16:20.646 WILDFIRES GOING ON, AND A LOT 00:16:20.713 --> 00:16:22.715 OF IT HAS TO DO WITH BRUSH AND 00:16:22.781 --> 00:16:24.583 EVERYTHING ELSE, ARE WE HAVING 00:16:24.650 --> 00:16:25.851 A HIGHER STANDARD AS IT 00:16:25.918 --> 00:16:26.985 PERTAINS TO SEEING THE BIGGER 00:16:27.052 --> 00:16:28.821 PICTURE AND DOING SOMETHING, 00:16:28.887 --> 00:16:30.589 CONSIDERING, YOU KNOW, JUST THE 00:16:30.656 --> 00:16:31.623 CLIMATE CHANGE AND EVERYTHING 00:16:31.690 --> 00:16:33.792 ELSE THAT'S PUTTING US IN A, 00:16:33.859 --> 00:16:35.994 YOU KNOW, MORE PRECARIOUS 00:16:36.061 --> 00:16:38.097 POSITION. CAN YOU SHARE? YEAH, 00:16:38.163 --> 00:16:39.164 THAT'S A THAT'S A GREAT 00:16:39.231 --> 00:16:40.999 QUESTION. AND I THINK IT'S AN 00:16:41.066 --> 00:16:43.535 IMPORTANT REMINDER TO ME TO 00:16:43.602 --> 00:16:46.372 SITUATE THESE GAMING, COMPACT 00:16:46.438 --> 00:16:48.774 AND GAMING COMPACT AMENDMENTS 00:16:48.841 --> 00:16:50.709 WITHIN THE BROADER CONTEXT OF, 00:16:50.776 --> 00:16:52.378 YOU KNOW, THE FULL SPECTRUM OF 00:16:52.444 --> 00:16:55.047 THE GOVERNMENT TO GOVERNMENT 00:16:55.114 --> 00:16:56.115 RELATIONSHIP THAT THE STATE HAS 00:16:56.181 --> 00:16:57.583 WITH EACH OF THESE TRIBAL 00:16:57.649 --> 00:16:58.984 GOVERNMENTS AND WITH ALL TRIBAL 00:16:59.051 --> 00:17:01.153 GOVERNMENTS. YOU HEARD THE 00:17:01.220 --> 00:17:04.423 CHAIRMAN ALLUDE TO THE TRIBAL 00:17:04.490 --> 00:17:05.824 GOVERNMENT SERVICES THAT THESE 00:17:05.891 --> 00:17:07.292 GAMING REVENUES ARE ABLE TO 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:08.494 FUND, AND I SUSPECT THAT WILL 00:17:08.560 --> 00:17:10.696 BE A COMMON THEME THIS MORNING. 00:17:10.763 --> 00:17:13.132 AND I THINK ONE OF THE FIRST 00:17:13.198 --> 00:17:16.301 THINGS YOU SEE MANY TRIBES FUND, 00:17:16.368 --> 00:17:17.736 ESPECIALLY WHEN THOSE TRIBES 00:17:17.803 --> 00:17:20.672 ARE SITUATED IN AREAS THAT ARE, 00:17:20.739 --> 00:17:22.474 OF COURSE, DEALING WITH A LARGE 00:17:22.541 --> 00:17:25.310 AND GROWING WILDFIRE THREAT IS 00:17:25.377 --> 00:17:27.112 FIRE PROTECTION SERVICES, FIRE 00:17:27.179 --> 00:17:28.781 DEPARTMENTS, FIRE PREVENTION. 00:17:28.847 --> 00:17:31.383 AND SO, YOU KNOW, EVEN OUTSIDE 00:17:31.450 --> 00:17:35.320 THE GAMING COMPACT CONTEXT, I 00:17:35.387 --> 00:17:37.189 THINK YOU DO SEE A LOT OF 00:17:37.256 --> 00:17:39.324 COOPERATION BETWEEN THE STATE 00:17:39.391 --> 00:17:41.794 AND TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS ON FIRE 00:17:41.860 --> 00:17:43.128 PREPAREDNESS, FIRE PREVENTION, 00:17:43.195 --> 00:17:45.097 FIRE MITIGATION, AND, YOU KNOW, 00:17:45.164 --> 00:17:47.266 FIRE FIGHTING. AND SO I THINK 00:17:47.332 --> 00:17:49.001 THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES. 00:17:49.067 --> 00:17:50.469 ABSOLUTELY. AND ONE OF THE 00:17:50.536 --> 00:17:52.204 THINGS I THINK YOU WILL SEE IN 00:17:52.271 --> 00:17:54.473 SOME OF THESE COMPACTS IS, YOU 00:17:54.540 --> 00:17:55.974 KNOW, GREATER FLEXIBILITY THAT 00:17:56.041 --> 00:17:57.676 WILL ALLOW CERTAIN TRIBAL 00:17:57.743 --> 00:17:59.511 GOVERNMENTS TO CONTINUE TO MAKE 00:17:59.578 --> 00:18:01.313 THOSE INVESTMENTS IN PUBLIC 00:18:01.380 --> 00:18:02.381 SAFETY, INCLUDING FIRE 00:18:02.448 --> 00:18:03.482 SUPPRESSION THAT THEY ARE THAT 00:18:03.549 --> 00:18:05.617 THEY'RE ALREADY MAKING. THANK 00:18:05.684 --> 00:18:07.386 YOU FOR THAT. WELL, YOU KNOW, I 00:18:07.453 --> 00:18:08.420 SERVED EIGHT YEARS ON THE 00:18:08.487 --> 00:18:09.488 INSURANCE COMMITTEE AND I, YOU 00:18:09.555 --> 00:18:11.023 KNOW, AND I VISITED THE 00:18:11.089 --> 00:18:11.824 RESERVATION, SEVERAL OF THEM. 00:18:11.890 --> 00:18:13.492 AND I KNOW WHAT WE'RE DEALING 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:14.726 WITH IN OUR STATE OF CALIFORNIA. 00:18:14.793 --> 00:18:16.361 AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST 00:18:16.428 --> 00:18:17.496 PUTTING A FINE POINT ON THAT 00:18:17.563 --> 00:18:19.431 ISSUE THAT I THINK WE HAVE TO 00:18:19.498 --> 00:18:21.467 JUST BE MORE MINDFUL OF THAT 00:18:21.533 --> 00:18:23.302 COLLABORATION. AND WITH THAT, 00:18:23.368 --> 00:18:24.736 I'LL TURN IT OVER TO SENATOR 00:18:24.803 --> 00:18:26.104 BLAKE. THANK YOU. I JUST HAD A 00:18:26.171 --> 00:18:28.307 FOLLOW UP QUESTION ON THAT. SO 00:18:28.373 --> 00:18:34.746 THERE'S A A LOT OF REFERENCE TO 00:18:34.813 --> 00:18:36.215 HISTORIC THE HISTORIC 00:18:36.281 --> 00:18:38.016 INHABITANTS OF THIS AREA BEING 00:18:38.083 --> 00:18:41.620 ABLE TO USE PRESCRIBED BURNS TO 00:18:41.687 --> 00:18:44.056 MANAGE AGAINST FIRE RISK, 00:18:44.122 --> 00:18:44.990 BECAUSE THEN THE FIRES AREN'T 00:18:45.057 --> 00:18:47.493 SO BIG AND DEVASTATING. ARE IS 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:48.994 THAT IS IT POSSIBLE FOR OUR 00:18:49.061 --> 00:18:50.996 TRIBES TO BE DOING FOLLOWING 00:18:51.063 --> 00:18:51.830 STANDARDS THAT ARE DIFFERENT 00:18:51.897 --> 00:18:53.732 FROM CAL FIRE OR THE STATE WHEN 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:56.335 IT COMES TO THINGS LIKE 00:18:56.401 --> 00:18:58.504 PREEMPTIVE OR PRESCRIBED BURNS? 00:18:58.570 --> 00:19:01.039 I, I APOLOGIZE, I DON'T THINK I 00:19:01.106 --> 00:19:02.708 CAN SPEAK TO THAT DIRECTLY JUST 00:19:02.774 --> 00:19:03.809 BECAUSE IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT 00:19:03.876 --> 00:19:05.711 HAS COME UP IN THE, IN THE 00:19:05.777 --> 00:19:07.145 GAMING CONTEXT SPECIFICALLY, 00:19:07.212 --> 00:19:08.981 BUT I'M HAPPY TO LOOK INTO THAT 00:19:09.047 --> 00:19:10.883 AND GET BACK TO YOU, IF THAT'S 00:19:10.949 --> 00:19:12.050 HELPFUL. OKAY. YEAH, I JUST WAS 00:19:12.117 --> 00:19:13.619 CURIOUS ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP 00:19:13.685 --> 00:19:17.256 BETWEEN WHAT WHAT THE STATE IS 00:19:17.322 --> 00:19:18.290 CALIFORNIA STATE IS DOING AND 00:19:18.357 --> 00:19:20.325 WHAT THE SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENTS 00:19:20.392 --> 00:19:22.628 MIGHT BE DOING RELATED TO FIRE 00:19:22.694 --> 00:19:24.796 PREVENTION AND MITIGATION. 00:19:24.863 --> 00:19:26.231 ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU. I'LL 00:19:26.298 --> 00:19:28.033 TURN IT OVER TO MY COLLEAGUE, 00:19:28.100 --> 00:19:30.903 SENATOR RICHARDSON. THANK YOU, 00:19:30.969 --> 00:19:32.671 MADAM CHAIR. GIVEN THE COMMENTS 00:19:32.738 --> 00:19:34.172 THAT ARE MADE, I JUST WANTED TO 00:19:34.239 --> 00:19:36.008 SHARE SOMETHING THAT I SAW ON 00:19:36.074 --> 00:19:39.177 ONE OF THE TOURS. IT WAS NOT AT 00:19:39.244 --> 00:19:41.013 AGUA CALIENTE, BUT IT WAS AT 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:43.148 ANOTHER TRIBAL NATION. I THINK 00:19:43.215 --> 00:19:44.583 IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO 00:19:44.650 --> 00:19:45.817 UNDERSTAND, NOT ONLY DO THE 00:19:45.884 --> 00:19:47.119 TRIBAL NATIONS DO WHAT THEY 00:19:47.185 --> 00:19:49.388 NEED TO DO TO PROPERLY PROTECT 00:19:49.454 --> 00:19:51.089 THEIR PROPERTY, BUT THEY'RE 00:19:51.156 --> 00:19:53.225 ACTUALLY ALSO HELPING IN THEIR 00:19:53.292 --> 00:19:56.161 NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES. 00:19:56.228 --> 00:19:57.896 OFTENTIMES, THERE ARE FIRES, 00:19:57.963 --> 00:20:00.098 OTHER ISSUES WHERE SUPPORT IS 00:20:00.165 --> 00:20:02.701 NEEDED. AND MANY OF THE TRIBAL 00:20:02.768 --> 00:20:05.137 NATIONS HAVE FULL ON FIRE 00:20:05.203 --> 00:20:06.505 DEPARTMENTS TREMENDOUS AMOUNT 00:20:06.572 --> 00:20:08.340 OF SUPPORT, AND THEY VOLUNTEER 00:20:08.407 --> 00:20:11.276 TO COME IN AND UTILIZE THEIR 00:20:11.343 --> 00:20:13.779 RESOURCES TO HELP THE EXISTING 00:20:13.845 --> 00:20:15.213 RESOURCES, MAYBE IN THE INLAND 00:20:15.280 --> 00:20:16.248 EMPIRE. SO I JUST WANTED TO 00:20:16.315 --> 00:20:18.083 MAKE SURE EVERYONE WAS CLEAR ON 00:20:18.150 --> 00:20:20.319 THAT. NOT ONLY ARE THEY MEETING, 00:20:20.385 --> 00:20:22.754 WORKING TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS 00:20:22.821 --> 00:20:25.257 FOR THEIR NATION AND THEIR LAND, 00:20:25.324 --> 00:20:27.159 BUT THEY'RE ALSO ASSISTING IN 00:20:27.225 --> 00:20:31.096 THE OTHER AREAS AS WELL. OKAY. 00:20:31.163 --> 00:20:32.931 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND YES, 00:20:32.998 --> 00:20:34.700 AND THANK YOU TO ALL THE TRIBES 00:20:34.766 --> 00:20:35.867 WHO I KNOW WORK REALLY WELL 00:20:35.934 --> 00:20:37.569 WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND PAY 00:20:37.636 --> 00:20:38.937 FOR FIRE SERVICES, POLICE. AND 00:20:39.004 --> 00:20:40.405 I THINK THAT ANY LOCAL 00:20:40.472 --> 00:20:41.840 GOVERNMENT IS THANKFUL FOR THAT. 00:20:41.907 --> 00:20:44.009 SO THANK YOU. WITH THAT, ANY 00:20:44.076 --> 00:20:47.946 MORE COMMENTS? WE WILL NOW 00:20:48.013 --> 00:20:49.147 CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT. OH, I'M 00:20:49.214 --> 00:20:51.216 SO SORRY. PUBLIC COMMENTS. MY 00:20:51.283 --> 00:20:53.018 APOLOGIES. NOW, ANYONE WISHING 00:20:53.085 --> 00:20:54.620 TO SPEAK ON THIS TRIBAL COMPACT 00:20:54.686 --> 00:20:55.487 BETWEEN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 00:20:55.554 --> 00:20:57.322 AND AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF 00:20:57.389 --> 00:20:59.424 CAHUILLA INDIANS STEP UP TO THE 00:20:59.491 --> 00:21:06.398 MIC. I'LL JUST BE VERY QUICK 00:21:06.465 --> 00:21:07.032 BECAUSE CHAIRMAN SAID IT ALL. 00:21:07.099 --> 00:21:08.667 BUT I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF AGUA 00:21:08.734 --> 00:21:10.602 CALIENTE INDIANS. WE JUST WANT 00:21:10.669 --> 00:21:11.803 TO AGAIN ECHO AND EXTEND OUR 00:21:11.870 --> 00:21:13.905 THANKS TO THE NEWSOM 00:21:13.972 --> 00:21:14.640 ADMINISTRATION, THE ATTORNEY 00:21:14.706 --> 00:21:16.742 GENERAL'S OFFICE ON THE 00:21:16.808 --> 00:21:18.577 PARTNERSHIP, THE PRODUCTIVE 00:21:18.644 --> 00:21:20.712 CONVERSATIONS. IT'S REALLY BEEN 00:21:20.779 --> 00:21:22.881 A RESPECTFUL AND EFFICIENT 00:21:22.948 --> 00:21:23.982 GOVERNMENT TO GOVERNMENT 00:21:24.049 --> 00:21:27.619 PROCESS. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. 00:21:27.686 --> 00:21:29.054 OKAY. ANYBODY ELSE WISHING TO 00:21:29.121 --> 00:21:31.556 SPEAK, SEEING NO INTEREST? WE 00:21:31.623 --> 00:21:34.126 WANT TO THANK MR. LEE AND AND 00:21:34.192 --> 00:21:36.261 OF COURSE, THE CHAIRMAN FOR FOR 00:21:36.328 --> 00:21:38.363 JOINING US. WE WILL NOW CLOSE 00:21:38.430 --> 00:21:40.132 THIS HEARING AND WE'RE GOING TO 00:21:40.198 --> 00:21:41.333 OPEN THE NEXT ONE. THANK YOU, 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:43.201 MR. LEE. WE WILL NOW GO TO 00:21:43.268 --> 00:21:44.336 HEARING NUMBER TWO. AND THIS IS 00:21:44.403 --> 00:21:46.104 A TRIBAL STATE COMPACT BETWEEN 00:21:46.171 --> 00:21:47.372 THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE 00:21:47.439 --> 00:21:50.642 FORT MOJAVE INDIAN TRIBE. MR. 00:21:50.709 --> 00:21:52.044 LEE WILL START AND WE WOULD 00:21:52.110 --> 00:21:54.212 INVITE SEAN LEWIS, VICE 00:21:54.279 --> 00:21:56.381 CHAIRMAN FOR FOR FORT MOJAVE 00:21:56.448 --> 00:21:57.883 INDIAN TRIBE, TO ALSO JOIN US. 00:21:57.949 --> 00:21:58.884 SO WHENEVER YOU'RE READY, MR. 00:21:58.950 --> 00:22:00.652 LEE, YOU MAY COMMENCE AND I'LL 00:22:00.719 --> 00:22:02.554 INVITE YOU. HE IS HERE WITH US 00:22:02.621 --> 00:22:04.723 TO COME TO THE FRONT. THANK YOU 00:22:04.790 --> 00:22:12.230 FOR JOINING US. THANK YOU. 00:22:12.297 --> 00:22:13.298 WELCOME. SO WE'RE GOING TO 00:22:13.365 --> 00:22:14.833 START WITH MR. LEE, AND THEN 00:22:14.900 --> 00:22:16.401 I'LL GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO 00:22:16.468 --> 00:22:18.770 SPEAK AS WELL. MR. LEE, YOU MAY 00:22:18.837 --> 00:22:21.707 BEGIN. THANK. THANK YOU VERY 00:22:21.773 --> 00:22:23.809 MUCH AGAIN, MADAM CHAIR, THIS 00:22:23.875 --> 00:22:26.244 IS A NEW TRIBAL STATE GAMING 00:22:26.311 --> 00:22:28.380 COMPACT REPLACING A COMPACT 00:22:28.447 --> 00:22:31.283 THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN 00:22:31.349 --> 00:22:33.452 NEGOTIATED IN 2004 AND HAD 00:22:33.518 --> 00:22:37.789 SINCE EXPIRED. IT'S VERY MUCH 00:22:37.856 --> 00:22:39.624 CONSISTENT WITH OTHER RECENT 00:22:39.691 --> 00:22:40.992 TRIBAL STATE GAMING COMPACTS 00:22:41.059 --> 00:22:43.895 THAT THIS BODY HAS SEEN. IT 00:22:43.962 --> 00:22:45.664 ALLOWS 1200 GAMING DEVICES, 00:22:45.731 --> 00:22:47.833 THAT IS 1200 CLASS THREE SLOT 00:22:47.899 --> 00:22:52.504 MACHINES. WITH STANDARD REVENUE 00:22:52.571 --> 00:22:54.306 TERMS THAT I ALLUDED TO EARLIER, 00:22:54.372 --> 00:22:55.741 PAYMENTS INTO THE SPECIAL 00:22:55.807 --> 00:22:57.209 DISTRIBUTION FUND TO DEFRAY THE 00:22:57.275 --> 00:22:59.344 STATE'S REGULATORY COSTS. 00:22:59.411 --> 00:23:02.214 BECAUSE IT'S ONLY A 1200 DEVICE 00:23:02.280 --> 00:23:05.150 COMPACT, THERE'S NO PAYMENT 00:23:05.217 --> 00:23:07.652 INTO THE RCF. THAT'S THE FUND 00:23:07.719 --> 00:23:10.856 THAT IS INTENDED FOR REVENUE 00:23:10.922 --> 00:23:12.691 SHARING, FROM LARGE GAMING 00:23:12.758 --> 00:23:14.526 OPERATIONS TO SMALL OR 00:23:14.593 --> 00:23:17.696 NON-GAMING TRIBES, AND 1200 00:23:17.763 --> 00:23:19.898 DEVICES IS ABOUT THE CUTOFF 00:23:19.965 --> 00:23:21.700 ABOVE, WHICH WE TYPICALLY 00:23:21.767 --> 00:23:24.202 BARGAIN FOR PAYMENT INTO THAT 00:23:24.269 --> 00:23:26.004 STANDARD TERMS. PROTECTING 00:23:26.071 --> 00:23:28.039 WORKERS WHO ARE IN JOBS THAT 00:23:28.106 --> 00:23:32.010 ARE SUFFICIENTLY CONNECTED TO 00:23:32.077 --> 00:23:33.779 THE TRIBE'S CLASS THREE GAMING 00:23:33.845 --> 00:23:34.880 ACTIVITIES. THOSE ARE THINGS 00:23:34.946 --> 00:23:38.116 LIKE STATE MINIMUM WAGE, STATE 00:23:38.183 --> 00:23:40.352 LAW, PROTECTIONS AGAINST 00:23:40.418 --> 00:23:43.522 HARASSMENT, RETALIATION, 00:23:43.588 --> 00:23:45.857 DISCRIMINATION, AND WHAT'S 00:23:45.924 --> 00:23:48.226 CALLED A TRIBAL LABOR RELATIONS 00:23:48.293 --> 00:23:50.028 ORDINANCE, WHICH PROVIDES A 00:23:50.095 --> 00:23:52.063 FRAMEWORK FOR LABOR ORGANIZING 00:23:52.130 --> 00:23:55.767 IN THE CONTEXT OF OF THE CASINO. 00:23:55.834 --> 00:23:59.371 ONE TERM I WOULD FLAG IN THIS 00:23:59.437 --> 00:24:02.274 COMPACT CONCERNS THE GEOGRAPHIC 00:24:02.340 --> 00:24:05.510 LOCATION OF THE TRIBE'S FUTURE 00:24:05.577 --> 00:24:06.945 GAMING FACILITY. MY 00:24:07.012 --> 00:24:08.013 UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THERE IS 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:12.717 NOT CURRENTLY A TRIBAL GAMING 00:24:12.784 --> 00:24:14.119 FACILITY IN CALIFORNIA 00:24:14.186 --> 00:24:15.187 ASSOCIATED WITH THIS TRIBE, BUT 00:24:15.253 --> 00:24:18.089 THIS TRIBE SPANS THE BORDER 00:24:18.156 --> 00:24:21.326 INTO NEVADA AND ARIZONA. THE 00:24:21.393 --> 00:24:24.229 TRIBE HAD PREVIOUSLY FOUND THE 00:24:24.296 --> 00:24:28.200 2004 COMPACT TO BE TOO 00:24:28.266 --> 00:24:30.001 RESTRICTIVE. SORT OF A BAD 00:24:30.068 --> 00:24:32.838 GUESS AS TO WHERE THAT CASINO 00:24:32.904 --> 00:24:34.606 MIGHT BE LOCATED. AND AS A 00:24:34.673 --> 00:24:36.274 RESULT OF LOGISTICAL PROBLEMS 00:24:36.341 --> 00:24:38.009 THAT EMERGED WITH THE PROPOSED 00:24:38.076 --> 00:24:39.344 CASINO SITE, DESCRIBED IN THAT 00:24:39.411 --> 00:24:42.180 COMPACT AFTER THE COMPACT WAS 00:24:42.247 --> 00:24:43.882 FINALIZED, THE TRIBE ULTIMATELY 00:24:43.949 --> 00:24:44.916 WASN'T ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD 00:24:44.983 --> 00:24:46.952 WITH ITS CALIFORNIA CASINO TO 00:24:47.018 --> 00:24:48.687 TO HELP SOLVE FOR THAT PROBLEM 00:24:48.753 --> 00:24:50.121 GOING FORWARD AND PROVIDE THE 00:24:50.188 --> 00:24:52.657 TRIBE WITH A BIT MORE 00:24:52.724 --> 00:24:54.793 FLEXIBILITY ON THAT POINT WHILE 00:24:54.860 --> 00:24:57.395 RETAINING APPROPRIATE STATE AND 00:24:57.462 --> 00:24:59.331 LOCAL INPUT IN THE LOCATION OF 00:24:59.397 --> 00:25:01.700 A FUTURE GAMING FACILITY WHERE 00:25:01.766 --> 00:25:03.435 USING A FEDERAL LAW PROCESS 00:25:03.501 --> 00:25:05.604 KNOWN AS A TWO PART 00:25:05.670 --> 00:25:07.072 DETERMINATION, THE COMPACT 00:25:07.138 --> 00:25:08.807 CONTEMPLATES THAT IF THERE IS A 00:25:08.874 --> 00:25:12.043 FUTURE FEDERAL TWO PART 00:25:12.110 --> 00:25:13.545 DETERMINATION, WHICH IS WHERE 00:25:13.612 --> 00:25:15.680 THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR 00:25:15.747 --> 00:25:17.482 DETERMINES THAT TAKING CERTAIN 00:25:17.549 --> 00:25:19.618 LAND INTO TRUST FOR GAMING 00:25:19.684 --> 00:25:22.854 WOULD BE GOOD FOR THE RELEVANT 00:25:22.921 --> 00:25:24.322 TRIBE, AND WOULD NOT HAVE 00:25:24.389 --> 00:25:27.559 ADVERSE IMPACTS ON, YOU KNOW, 00:25:27.626 --> 00:25:29.394 RELEVANT LOCAL COMMUNITIES. AND 00:25:29.461 --> 00:25:31.563 THE STATE'S GOVERNOR CONCURS IN 00:25:31.630 --> 00:25:34.766 THAT SAME DETERMINATION, THEN 00:25:34.833 --> 00:25:37.335 NEW LAND CAN BE TAKEN INTO 00:25:37.402 --> 00:25:40.205 TRUST FOR GAMING BY THAT TRIBE. 00:25:40.272 --> 00:25:42.707 SO THIS COMPACT, IT DOESN'T 00:25:42.774 --> 00:25:44.542 CIRCUMSCRIBE THAT THAT PROCESS 00:25:44.609 --> 00:25:45.977 IN ANY WAY. AND IT DOES NOT IN 00:25:46.044 --> 00:25:47.712 ANY WAY RESTRICT A FUTURE 00:25:47.779 --> 00:25:50.282 GOVERNOR'S POWER TO CONCUR OR 00:25:50.348 --> 00:25:53.451 NOT TO CONCUR IN ANY TWO PART 00:25:53.518 --> 00:25:54.519 DETERMINATION THAT IS MADE. IT 00:25:54.586 --> 00:25:56.421 JUST SAYS THAT IF THERE IS A 00:25:56.488 --> 00:25:58.890 FUTURE, TWO PART DETERMINATION 00:25:58.957 --> 00:26:01.526 NEAR THE CITY OF NEEDLES AND 00:26:01.593 --> 00:26:03.361 THE GOVERNOR CHOOSES TO CONCUR 00:26:03.428 --> 00:26:04.829 IN THAT DOWN THE ROAD, THAT 00:26:04.896 --> 00:26:07.532 THAT THAT SITE WILL ALSO BE ONE 00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:09.034 OF THE PLACES THAT, CONSISTENT 00:26:09.100 --> 00:26:10.835 WITH THIS COMPACT, THE TRIBE 00:26:10.902 --> 00:26:12.237 CAN ENGAGE IN CLASS THREE 00:26:12.304 --> 00:26:13.571 GAMING. HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY 00:26:13.638 --> 00:26:14.873 OTHER QUESTIONS, BUT VERY MUCH 00:26:14.940 --> 00:26:16.174 CONSISTENT WITH OTHER RECENT 00:26:16.241 --> 00:26:18.043 1200 DEVICE COMPACTS THAT THIS 00:26:18.109 --> 00:26:20.178 BODY HAS SEEN. THANK YOU. THANK 00:26:20.245 --> 00:26:21.880 YOU. SO BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD, 00:26:21.947 --> 00:26:23.081 JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE NO ONE 00:26:23.148 --> 00:26:25.250 HAS ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. LEE. 00:26:25.317 --> 00:26:26.885 OKAY. SO WE WILL NOW MOVE OVER 00:26:26.952 --> 00:26:28.720 TO SEAN LEWIS. CHAIRMAN. THANK 00:26:28.787 --> 00:26:30.722 YOU SO MUCH. YOU MAY BEGIN WHEN 00:26:30.789 --> 00:26:32.691 YOU'RE READY. THANK YOU. GOOD 00:26:32.757 --> 00:26:33.858 MORNING. GOOD MORNING, 00:26:33.925 --> 00:26:35.660 COMMITTEE MEMBERS. MY NAME IS 00:26:35.727 --> 00:26:37.195 SHANNON LEWIS, AND I SERVE AS 00:26:37.262 --> 00:26:38.163 VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE FORT 00:26:38.229 --> 00:26:40.298 MOJAVE INDIAN TRIBE. IT IS MY 00:26:40.365 --> 00:26:41.933 HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO BE HERE 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:43.201 TODAY TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO OUR 00:26:43.268 --> 00:26:44.636 COMPACT AND RELATIONSHIP TO THE 00:26:44.703 --> 00:26:46.771 STATE OF CALIFORNIA. WITH ME 00:26:46.838 --> 00:26:48.239 TODAY ARE TWO OF OUR COUNCIL 00:26:48.306 --> 00:26:49.808 MEMBERS. I HAVE SECRETARY 00:26:49.874 --> 00:26:52.877 COLEEN GARCIA AND COUNCIL 00:26:52.944 --> 00:26:55.013 MEMBER NICOLE GARCIA AND OUR 00:26:55.080 --> 00:26:57.549 LEGAL ADVISERS, MR. MOYAMOYA 00:26:57.615 --> 00:26:59.818 AND MR. DAVID CLIFFORD. I'D 00:26:59.884 --> 00:27:01.486 LIKE TO BEGIN BY EXPRESSING 00:27:01.553 --> 00:27:03.321 APPRECIATION TO THE TEAM HERE. 00:27:03.388 --> 00:27:05.156 GOVERNOR NEWSOM'S OFFICE, THE 00:27:05.223 --> 00:27:06.157 COMMITTEE AND STAFF AND 00:27:06.224 --> 00:27:07.625 EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED OUR 00:27:07.692 --> 00:27:09.494 EFFORTS TO BE HERE TODAY. THE 00:27:09.561 --> 00:27:11.596 MOJAVE PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE, WHICH 00:27:11.663 --> 00:27:13.732 MEANS A PEOPLE ALONG THE RIVER. 00:27:13.798 --> 00:27:15.734 OUR ANCESTRAL HOMELANDS EXTEND 00:27:15.800 --> 00:27:16.968 ALONG THE COLORADO RIVER, 00:27:17.035 --> 00:27:19.871 ACROSS FROM OUR NOW CALIFORNIA, 00:27:19.938 --> 00:27:21.673 ARIZONA AND NEVADA. WE ARE 00:27:21.740 --> 00:27:23.174 FORTUNATE TO STILL OCCUPY 00:27:23.241 --> 00:27:24.609 PORTIONS OF OUR ORIGINAL 00:27:24.676 --> 00:27:26.044 HOMELANDS. OUR IDENTITY, 00:27:26.111 --> 00:27:27.846 CULTURE, AND WAY OF LIFE ARE 00:27:27.912 --> 00:27:29.247 DEEPLY CONNECTED TO THE 00:27:29.314 --> 00:27:30.415 COLORADO RIVER AND THE LANDS 00:27:30.482 --> 00:27:32.617 THAT SURROUND IT. TODAY, THE 00:27:32.684 --> 00:27:34.686 FORT MOJAVE INDIAN TRIBE 00:27:34.753 --> 00:27:36.054 CONTINUES OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO 00:27:36.121 --> 00:27:38.256 PROTECT OUR LANDS, OUR CULTURE, 00:27:38.323 --> 00:27:40.025 AND THE WELL-BEING OF FUTURE 00:27:40.091 --> 00:27:41.493 GENERATIONS FOR ALL 00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:44.396 CALIFORNIANS. IN 2004, OUR 00:27:44.462 --> 00:27:45.797 TRIBAL ENTERED INTO ITS FIRST 00:27:45.864 --> 00:27:47.098 TRIBAL STATE GAMING COMPACT 00:27:47.165 --> 00:27:49.401 WITH CALIFORNIA, THE 2004 00:27:49.467 --> 00:27:50.902 COMPACT LIMITED GAMING TO A 00:27:50.969 --> 00:27:52.303 SINGLE PARCEL OF LAND THAT 00:27:52.370 --> 00:27:54.105 ULTIMATELY PROVED ECONOMICALLY 00:27:54.172 --> 00:27:56.641 UNSUITED FOR DEVELOPMENT. AS A 00:27:56.708 --> 00:27:57.776 RESULT, FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS, 00:27:57.842 --> 00:27:59.711 THE TRIBE HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO 00:27:59.778 --> 00:28:01.346 OPERATE A CASINO IN CALIFORNIA 00:28:01.413 --> 00:28:02.714 OR REALIZE THE ECONOMIC 00:28:02.781 --> 00:28:04.215 DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY. THE 00:28:04.282 --> 00:28:05.750 COMPACT WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED 00:28:05.817 --> 00:28:08.520 TO PROVIDE. WHILE LAND USE FOR 00:28:08.586 --> 00:28:09.587 GAMING WILL STILL REQUIRE 00:28:09.654 --> 00:28:11.056 FUTURE FEDERAL APPROVALS AND 00:28:11.122 --> 00:28:12.824 THE GOVERNOR'S CONCURRENCE, 00:28:12.891 --> 00:28:15.293 THIS NEW COMPACT WILL FINALLY 00:28:15.360 --> 00:28:16.394 PROVIDE THE TRIBE WITH 00:28:16.461 --> 00:28:17.896 MEANINGFUL OPPORTUNITIES TO 00:28:17.962 --> 00:28:18.930 DEVELOP A MODEST GAMING 00:28:18.997 --> 00:28:21.132 FACILITY IN THE FUTURE. IT IS 00:28:21.199 --> 00:28:22.867 IMPORTANT TO NOTE NO SINGLE 00:28:22.934 --> 00:28:23.935 PERSON BENEFITS FROM OUR 00:28:24.002 --> 00:28:25.770 TRIBE'S GAMING. THE REVENUE 00:28:25.837 --> 00:28:27.205 GENERATED BY OUR FACILITY WILL 00:28:27.272 --> 00:28:28.606 HELP FUND ESSENTIAL TRIBAL 00:28:28.673 --> 00:28:30.809 GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS AND 00:28:30.875 --> 00:28:32.644 SERVICES FOR OUR MEMBERS, WHILE 00:28:32.710 --> 00:28:34.412 ALSO PROVIDING JOBS TO ALL 00:28:34.479 --> 00:28:36.314 CALIFORNIANS ACROSS. ALONG WITH 00:28:36.381 --> 00:28:38.483 ALL OF THE OFF RESERVATION 00:28:38.550 --> 00:28:39.784 NON-TRIBAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 00:28:39.851 --> 00:28:41.219 OPPORTUNITIES THAT ACCOMPANY 00:28:41.286 --> 00:28:44.522 GAMING PROJECTS, THE COMPACT 00:28:44.589 --> 00:28:46.157 REFLECTS A BALANCED GOVERNMENT 00:28:46.224 --> 00:28:47.759 TO GOVERNMENT AGREEMENT, 00:28:47.826 --> 00:28:48.793 SUPPORTS TRIBAL JOBS AND 00:28:48.860 --> 00:28:50.628 FUNDING FOR ESSENTIAL TRIBAL 00:28:50.695 --> 00:28:52.564 PROGRAMS AND SERVICES. AFTER 00:28:52.630 --> 00:28:53.865 MORE THAN TWO DECADES, THIS 00:28:53.932 --> 00:28:55.333 COMPACT GIVES THE FORT MOJAVE 00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:57.268 INDIAN TRIBE A FAIR OPPORTUNITY 00:28:57.335 --> 00:28:59.104 TO PURSUE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 00:28:59.170 --> 00:29:01.406 WHILE PROTECTING PATRONS, 00:29:01.473 --> 00:29:02.440 EMPLOYEES AND NEIGHBOR. 00:29:02.507 --> 00:29:04.676 CALIFORNIA COMMUNITIES FOR THE 00:29:04.742 --> 00:29:05.810 MOJAVE PEOPLE, THIS IS ABOUT 00:29:05.877 --> 00:29:08.646 MORE THAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 00:29:08.713 --> 00:29:10.014 IT IS AN INVESTMENT IN OUR 00:29:10.081 --> 00:29:11.816 HEALTH, EDUCATION AND FUTURE OF 00:29:11.883 --> 00:29:13.618 GENERATIONS OF OUR PEOPLE. 00:29:13.685 --> 00:29:14.719 THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS 00:29:14.786 --> 00:29:15.720 OPPORTUNITY, AND WE LOOK 00:29:15.787 --> 00:29:16.688 FORWARD TO ANSWERING ANY 00:29:16.754 --> 00:29:19.724 QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. THANK 00:29:19.791 --> 00:29:23.027 YOU. I'LL TURN IT OVER TO MY 00:29:23.094 --> 00:29:25.196 ONLY MEMBER HERE. JUST REALLY 00:29:25.263 --> 00:29:26.264 QUICKLY. I KNOW YOU SAID THAT 00:29:26.331 --> 00:29:28.266 YOU HAD A SINGLE PARCEL THAT 00:29:28.333 --> 00:29:30.935 YOU WERE NOT ABLE TO TO PUT A 00:29:31.002 --> 00:29:32.737 CASINO ON. DO YOU HAVE ANY NEAR 00:29:32.804 --> 00:29:34.873 FUTURE PLANS TO DO SO? ARE YOU 00:29:34.939 --> 00:29:37.408 DO YOU HAVE ANY TIMELINE OR 00:29:37.475 --> 00:29:39.144 ANYTHING IN THE FUTURE? THERE'S 00:29:39.210 --> 00:29:40.979 THERE'S NO TIMELINE RIGHT NOW. 00:29:41.045 --> 00:29:42.313 YOU KNOW, WITH THE OPPORTUNITY 00:29:42.380 --> 00:29:43.515 TO ACTUALLY LOOK FOR OTHER 00:29:43.581 --> 00:29:45.283 PIECES OF PARCELS THAT ARE 00:29:45.350 --> 00:29:47.118 CONTIGUOUS WITH TRIBAL LAND IN 00:29:47.185 --> 00:29:48.853 CALIFORNIA, THAT'S GOING TO BE 00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:51.389 A PROCESS. THAT'S THAT THIS NEW 00:29:51.456 --> 00:29:53.591 COMPACT WILL ALLOW US TO DO SO. 00:29:53.658 --> 00:29:54.425 ALL RIGHT. WELL, THANK YOU FOR 00:29:54.492 --> 00:29:57.195 YOUR PRESENTATION. I WILL NOW 00:29:57.262 --> 00:29:58.963 INVITE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO 00:29:59.030 --> 00:30:00.331 COME UP TO THE MICROPHONE. IF 00:30:00.398 --> 00:30:01.766 YOU WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS 00:30:01.833 --> 00:30:07.605 MATTER. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME. 00:30:07.672 --> 00:30:09.440 GOOD MORNING, DON ROUSH, SAN 00:30:09.507 --> 00:30:10.575 BERNARDINO COUNTY AND SUPPORT. 00:30:10.642 --> 00:30:13.878 THANK YOU, THANK YOU. GOOD 00:30:13.945 --> 00:30:15.113 MORNING, DYLAN LISOWSKI WITH 00:30:15.180 --> 00:30:16.247 THE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY 00:30:16.314 --> 00:30:17.715 SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IN SUPPORT. 00:30:17.782 --> 00:30:19.984 THANK YOU, THANK YOU. ANYONE 00:30:20.051 --> 00:30:22.720 ELSE WISHING TO SPEAK SEEING NO 00:30:22.787 --> 00:30:24.589 INTEREST. THAT CONCLUDES OUR 00:30:24.656 --> 00:30:25.590 INFORMATIONAL HEARING ON THE 00:30:25.657 --> 00:30:27.458 FORT MOJAVE COMPACT. WE WILL 00:30:27.525 --> 00:30:30.361 NOW MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ONE. 00:30:30.428 --> 00:30:31.462 THANK YOU GENTLEMEN. THANK YOU, 00:30:31.529 --> 00:30:34.632 THANK YOU. WE WILL NOW MOVE ON 00:30:34.699 --> 00:30:38.570 TO OUR NEXT HEARING, WHICH IS 00:30:38.636 --> 00:30:40.038 THE FIFTH AMENDMENT TO THE 00:30:40.104 --> 00:30:41.105 TRIBAL STATE COMPACT BETWEEN 00:30:41.172 --> 00:30:44.008 THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE 00:30:44.075 --> 00:30:47.278 RANCHERIA OF INDIANS OF 00:30:47.345 --> 00:30:48.546 CALIFORNIA. I WILL AGAIN START 00:30:48.613 --> 00:30:55.887 WITH MR. LEE AND WELCOME. 00:30:55.954 --> 00:30:57.388 CHAIRPERSON DEAN KAMALANI. I'M 00:30:57.455 --> 00:30:58.957 GOING TO HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO 00:30:59.023 --> 00:30:59.958 EVERYONE. I'M SURE MY 00:31:00.024 --> 00:31:00.925 PRONUNCIATION THIS MORNING MAY 00:31:00.992 --> 00:31:03.795 NOT BE UP TO PAR, BUT YOU KNOW, 00:31:03.861 --> 00:31:05.964 WELCOME. WE THANK YOU FOR BEING 00:31:06.030 --> 00:31:08.132 HERE. SO WE WILL START AGAIN 00:31:08.199 --> 00:31:10.034 WITH MR. LEE AND THEN MOVE OVER. 00:31:10.101 --> 00:31:11.836 SO YOU MAY BEGIN WHEN YOU'RE 00:31:11.903 --> 00:31:12.937 READY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, 00:31:13.004 --> 00:31:16.474 MADAM CHAIR. THIS AMENDMENT IS 00:31:16.541 --> 00:31:17.742 A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT FROM THE 00:31:17.809 --> 00:31:19.911 OTHER AMENDMENTS BEFORE THIS 00:31:19.978 --> 00:31:22.146 BODY TODAY. THIS IS SIMPLY AN 00:31:22.213 --> 00:31:26.050 EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING 1999 00:31:26.117 --> 00:31:27.252 COMPACT BETWEEN THE STATE AND 00:31:27.318 --> 00:31:29.687 THE TRIBE. I HAD MENTIONED 00:31:29.754 --> 00:31:35.093 EARLIER THAT SOMETIMES WHEN THE 00:31:35.159 --> 00:31:36.361 STATE AND THE TRIBAL GOVERNMENT 00:31:36.427 --> 00:31:39.464 ARE NOT ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY 00:31:39.530 --> 00:31:41.966 REACH AN AGREEMENT UNDER IGRA, 00:31:42.033 --> 00:31:43.901 THEY CAN WIND UP IN LITIGATION. 00:31:43.968 --> 00:31:45.203 THAT IS, UNFORTUNATELY WHAT'S 00:31:45.270 --> 00:31:48.072 HAPPENED HERE, THAT THAT 00:31:48.139 --> 00:31:49.974 LITIGATION IS PROCEEDING WHILE 00:31:50.041 --> 00:31:52.010 IT PROCEEDS. I THINK ALL 00:31:52.076 --> 00:31:53.111 PARTIES AGREE THAT IT MAKES 00:31:53.177 --> 00:31:54.879 SENSE TO MAINTAIN THE STATUS 00:31:54.946 --> 00:31:59.584 QUO. HAPPY TO SIMPLY EXTEND THE 00:31:59.651 --> 00:32:02.654 TRIBE'S EXISTING 1999 GAMING 00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:04.656 COMPACT, TO ALLOW THAT STATUS 00:32:04.722 --> 00:32:06.024 QUO TO BE MAINTAINED AND TO 00:32:06.090 --> 00:32:07.792 ALLOW THE TRIBE'S LITIGATION TO 00:32:07.859 --> 00:32:11.162 PROCEED IN AN ORDERLY FASHION. 00:32:11.229 --> 00:32:13.965 THANK YOU. NOW, YOU MAY PROCEED. 00:32:14.032 --> 00:32:16.134 THANK YOU. HAILEY HAILEY, 00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:17.235 CHAIRWOMAN RUBIO AND MEMBERS OF 00:32:17.302 --> 00:32:20.071 THE COMMITTEE, MY FELLOW TRIBAL 00:32:20.138 --> 00:32:21.773 LEADERS IN THE ROOM, IN THE IN 00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:24.809 OUR PUBLIC. SO I'M HERE TODAY. 00:32:24.876 --> 00:32:26.210 SO FIRST OF ALL, MY NAME IS 00:32:26.277 --> 00:32:28.079 DIANE KAMALANI, AND I'M A PROUD. 00:32:28.146 --> 00:32:29.080 I'M PROUD TO SERVE AS 00:32:29.147 --> 00:32:30.581 CHAIRPERSON OF THE PICAYUNE 00:32:30.648 --> 00:32:32.717 RANCHERIA OF THE INDIANS. I'M 00:32:32.784 --> 00:32:34.419 HERE TODAY ON BEHALF OF OUR 00:32:34.485 --> 00:32:35.920 TRIBAL COUNCIL AND OUR PEOPLE 00:32:35.987 --> 00:32:37.689 TO RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR YOUR 00:32:37.755 --> 00:32:39.157 SUPPORT IN RATIFYING THE FIFTH 00:32:39.223 --> 00:32:40.358 AMENDMENT TO OUR TRIBAL STATE 00:32:40.425 --> 00:32:44.362 GAMING COMPACT. SO FOR. GAMING 00:32:44.429 --> 00:32:46.431 IS NOT SIMPLY A BUSINESS. THIS 00:32:46.497 --> 00:32:47.465 REVENUE IS WHAT ALLOWS OUR 00:32:47.532 --> 00:32:48.599 TRIBAL GOVERNMENT TO TAKE CARE 00:32:48.666 --> 00:32:51.069 OF OUR PEOPLE, EXERCISE OUR 00:32:51.135 --> 00:32:52.136 SOVEREIGNTY, AND BUILD A 00:32:52.203 --> 00:32:53.971 STRONGER, MORE SECURE FUTURE 00:32:54.038 --> 00:32:56.841 FOR OUR COMMUNITY. CURRENTLY, 00:32:56.908 --> 00:32:59.310 RESORT AND CASINO EMPLOYEES, 00:32:59.377 --> 00:33:02.880 1100 TEAM MEMBERS. AND WITH 00:33:02.947 --> 00:33:04.248 THAT AMOUNT OF TEAM MEMBERS, I 00:33:04.315 --> 00:33:06.551 WOULD SAY 95% OF THEM LIVE IN 00:33:06.617 --> 00:33:08.286 TWO SURROUNDING COUNTIES, 00:33:08.353 --> 00:33:12.957 FRESNO AND MADERA. THEY INJECT 00:33:13.024 --> 00:33:14.425 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO OUR 00:33:14.492 --> 00:33:16.594 LOCAL ECONOMY SINCE WE WE 00:33:16.661 --> 00:33:20.231 OPENED THE PROPERTY. CURRENTLY 00:33:20.298 --> 00:33:22.734 WE HAVE FUNDED. WE HAVE A MOU 00:33:22.800 --> 00:33:24.902 WITH MADERA COUNTY. WE HAVE 00:33:24.969 --> 00:33:29.207 FUNDED TO BUILD A FIRE STATION 00:33:29.273 --> 00:33:32.076 AND WE CONTINUE TO FUND THOSE 00:33:32.143 --> 00:33:34.946 WHO WORK THERE, AS WELL AS FUND 00:33:35.012 --> 00:33:36.214 OUR LOCAL SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT 00:33:36.280 --> 00:33:37.849 OR THE MADERA COUNTY SHERIFF'S 00:33:37.915 --> 00:33:43.254 DEPARTMENT. WE HAVE. WE HAVE 00:33:43.321 --> 00:33:44.722 DONATED. WE. WE ARE A PROUD 00:33:44.789 --> 00:33:46.124 COMMUNITY PARTNER. WE HAVE 00:33:46.190 --> 00:33:49.026 DONATED AND SPONSORED MORE THAN 00:33:49.093 --> 00:33:50.461 $25 MILLION SINCE WE HAVE 00:33:50.528 --> 00:33:55.900 OPENED AND THE REVENUES 00:33:55.967 --> 00:33:57.335 GENERATED BY OUR GAMING 00:33:57.402 --> 00:33:58.403 ENTERPRISE HELP PROVIDE HEALTH 00:33:58.469 --> 00:34:00.538 CARE TO OUR FAMILIES. HOUSING 00:34:00.605 --> 00:34:02.373 SERVICES FOR OUR TRIBAL 00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:04.142 CITIZENS, PROGRAMS FOR OUR 00:34:04.208 --> 00:34:05.910 ELDERS, YOU KNOW, EDUCATIONAL 00:34:05.977 --> 00:34:07.078 OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR YOUNG 00:34:07.145 --> 00:34:10.581 PEOPLE. I BELIEVE THIS HAS BEEN 00:34:10.648 --> 00:34:12.784 THE MOST STUDENTS WE HAVE HAD 00:34:12.850 --> 00:34:15.653 ENROLLED IN COLLEGE, AND THAT 00:34:15.720 --> 00:34:17.088 INCLUDES COMMUNITY COLLEGE, AND 00:34:17.155 --> 00:34:20.691 TRADE SCHOOLS SINCE WE WERE 00:34:20.758 --> 00:34:23.928 REESTABLISHED IN 1988. THE 00:34:23.995 --> 00:34:25.730 FUNDS ALSO GO TO SUPPORT THE 00:34:25.797 --> 00:34:27.432 PUBLIC SAFETY INFRASTRUCTURE 00:34:27.498 --> 00:34:29.367 AND THE PRESERVATION OF OUR 00:34:29.434 --> 00:34:31.169 CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND 00:34:31.235 --> 00:34:33.304 TRADITIONS. IN REGARDS TO OUR 00:34:33.371 --> 00:34:34.372 LANGUAGE, WE PARTNERED WITH 00:34:34.439 --> 00:34:36.574 FRESNO STATE UNIVERSITY, WHO 00:34:36.641 --> 00:34:39.043 ASSISTED US IN PREPARING OUR 00:34:39.110 --> 00:34:40.445 DICTIONARY, AND WE'RE REALLY 00:34:40.511 --> 00:34:42.647 WORKING TOWARDS REVITALIZING 00:34:42.713 --> 00:34:46.284 OUR LANGUAGE. REVENUES ALSO 00:34:46.350 --> 00:34:47.752 ALLOW US TO INVEST IN PROJECTS 00:34:47.819 --> 00:34:49.520 THAT CREATE JOBS AND ECONOMIC 00:34:49.587 --> 00:34:50.888 OPPORTUNITY, NOT ONLY FOR OUR 00:34:50.955 --> 00:34:52.390 TRIBAL CITIZENS, BUT OUR 00:34:52.457 --> 00:34:54.158 NEIGHBORS AND THE SURROUNDING 00:34:54.225 --> 00:34:56.027 CENTRAL VALLEY AND MOUNTAIN 00:34:56.093 --> 00:34:58.229 COMMUNITIES. REVENUE FROM OUR 00:34:58.296 --> 00:35:00.031 GAMING ENTERPRISES PROVIDES OUR 00:35:00.097 --> 00:35:01.732 NATION WITH GREATER STABILITY 00:35:01.799 --> 00:35:03.468 AND CERTAINTY, SO WE CAN 00:35:03.534 --> 00:35:04.635 CONTINUE MAKING THOSE 00:35:04.702 --> 00:35:06.404 INVESTMENTS AND PLANNING 00:35:06.471 --> 00:35:08.206 RESPONSIBLY FOR GENERATIONS TO 00:35:08.272 --> 00:35:11.108 COME. BUT I WANT YOU TO I WANT 00:35:11.175 --> 00:35:12.743 TO LEAVE YOU WITH SOMETHING 00:35:12.810 --> 00:35:15.446 EVEN MORE IMPORTANT. FOR 00:35:15.513 --> 00:35:16.848 GENERATIONS, OUR PROUD PEOPLE 00:35:16.914 --> 00:35:18.282 FOUGHT HARD TO MAINTAIN OUR 00:35:18.349 --> 00:35:20.852 LAND, OUR CULTURE, AND OUR 00:35:20.918 --> 00:35:22.620 INHERENT RIGHT TO GOVERN 00:35:22.687 --> 00:35:25.857 OURSELVES. SO TODAY, GAMING 00:35:25.923 --> 00:35:27.758 GIVES YOU THE RESOURCES TO PUT 00:35:27.825 --> 00:35:30.194 THAT SOVEREIGNTY INTO PRACTICE. 00:35:30.261 --> 00:35:32.697 IT MEANS CARING FOR AN ELDER. 00:35:32.763 --> 00:35:34.899 IT MEANS HELPING A YOUNG TRIBAL 00:35:34.966 --> 00:35:37.001 CITIZEN GET AN EDUCATION. IT 00:35:37.068 --> 00:35:38.436 MEANS PROVIDING HOUSING 00:35:38.503 --> 00:35:39.537 SERVICES, PRESERVING OUR 00:35:39.604 --> 00:35:40.605 CULTURE, AND CREATING 00:35:40.671 --> 00:35:41.672 OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN WHO 00:35:41.739 --> 00:35:43.574 WILL INHERIT THIS TRIBAL NATION 00:35:43.641 --> 00:35:45.643 LONG AFTER ALL OF US ARE GONE. 00:35:45.710 --> 00:35:47.078 YOU KNOW, THIS COMPACT IS NOT 00:35:47.144 --> 00:35:50.014 SIMPLY ABOUT GAMING. IT'S A 00:35:50.081 --> 00:35:51.048 DOCUMENT THAT HELPS OUR TRIBAL 00:35:51.115 --> 00:35:53.618 NATION REMAIN SELF-RELIANT, 00:35:53.684 --> 00:35:55.419 EXERCISE OUR SOVEREIGNTY, AND 00:35:55.486 --> 00:35:56.821 PROVIDE A BETTER FUTURE FOR OUR 00:35:56.888 --> 00:35:58.689 TRIBAL CITIZENS OF THE PICAYUNE 00:35:58.756 --> 00:36:02.593 RANCHERIA OF THE INDIANS. MITCH, 00:36:02.660 --> 00:36:07.265 THANK YOU, THANK YOU, I WILL. 00:36:07.331 --> 00:36:09.567 ANY COMMENTS? WELL, THANK YOU 00:36:09.634 --> 00:36:11.235 SO MUCH FOR FOR YOUR TESTIMONY. 00:36:11.302 --> 00:36:13.371 I'M SURE THE MADERA SHERIFF'S 00:36:13.437 --> 00:36:14.972 DEPARTMENT APPRECIATES THAT 25 00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:16.240 MILLION IN SPONSORSHIPS, JUST 00:36:16.307 --> 00:36:18.743 IN GENERAL, AS I SHARED EARLIER 00:36:18.809 --> 00:36:20.211 TODAY, I ALWAYS APPRECIATE THAT 00:36:20.278 --> 00:36:21.312 PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL 00:36:21.379 --> 00:36:23.080 GOVERNMENTS. YOU KNOW, AT THIS 00:36:23.147 --> 00:36:24.582 POINT, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE 00:36:24.649 --> 00:36:25.983 ANYONE FROM OUR AUDIENCE TO 00:36:26.050 --> 00:36:28.219 COME AND SPEAK. PLEASE JOIN US 00:36:28.286 --> 00:36:31.822 UP IN THE MICROPHONE. SEE NO 00:36:31.889 --> 00:36:33.925 ONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS 00:36:33.991 --> 00:36:36.093 ITEM. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR 00:36:36.160 --> 00:36:37.929 FOR JOINING US HERE TODAY. AND 00:36:37.995 --> 00:36:40.398 THAT CONCLUDES THE INFORMATION 00:36:40.464 --> 00:36:42.533 INFORMATIONAL HEARING ON THE 00:36:42.600 --> 00:36:43.935 AMENDMENTS. AND THANK YOU FOR 00:36:44.001 --> 00:36:46.837 COMING IN PERSON AS WELL. SO 00:36:46.904 --> 00:36:50.474 THANK OH, SURE. THANK YOU. 00:36:50.541 --> 00:36:53.377 THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHTY. 00:36:53.444 --> 00:36:56.747 THANK YOU. SO NOW WE WILL MOVE 00:36:56.814 --> 00:36:59.850 ON TO THIS ONE. RIGHT. THE 00:36:59.917 --> 00:37:01.218 SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE TRIBAL 00:37:01.285 --> 00:37:02.486 STATE GAMING COMPACT BETWEEN 00:37:02.553 --> 00:37:04.121 THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE 00:37:04.188 --> 00:37:06.991 SANTA YNEZ BAND OF CHUMASH 00:37:07.058 --> 00:37:08.492 INDIANS. ONCE AGAIN, MR. LEE, 00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:10.094 YOU'LL BE UP FIRST. AND I WOULD 00:37:10.161 --> 00:37:12.330 LIKE TO INVITE KENNETH KHAN, 00:37:12.396 --> 00:37:14.532 CHAIRMAN OF SANTA INEZ BAND OF 00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:16.701 CHUMASH INDIANS, TO JOIN US. 00:37:16.767 --> 00:37:22.907 WELCOME. GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. 00:37:22.974 --> 00:37:24.675 AND, MR. LEE, WHEN YOU ARE 00:37:24.742 --> 00:37:28.613 READY, YOU MAY BEGIN. THANK YOU. 00:37:28.679 --> 00:37:29.747 THANK YOU VERY MUCH AGAIN, 00:37:29.814 --> 00:37:32.950 MADAM CHAIR, THIS AMENDMENT IS 00:37:33.017 --> 00:37:34.752 CONCEPTUALLY SIMILAR TO THE 00:37:34.819 --> 00:37:36.520 AGUA CALIENTE AMENDMENT THAT WE 00:37:36.587 --> 00:37:38.422 WERE DISCUSSING A FEW MOMENTS 00:37:38.489 --> 00:37:40.858 AGO. IT'S ANOTHER SITUATION 00:37:40.925 --> 00:37:43.427 WHERE THE STATE IS BEING 00:37:43.494 --> 00:37:44.829 THOUGHTFUL ABOUT ITS POSITION 00:37:44.895 --> 00:37:46.497 AND PRIORITIES IN A POST 00:37:46.564 --> 00:37:48.432 CHICKEN RANCH WORLD, AND IS 00:37:48.499 --> 00:37:50.167 WORKING WITH A TRIBAL 00:37:50.234 --> 00:37:51.235 GOVERNMENT THAT HAS BEEN AN 00:37:51.302 --> 00:37:55.239 EXCELLENT PARTNER TO FIGURE OUT 00:37:55.306 --> 00:37:57.041 HOW WE CAN MAKE THIS COMPACT 00:37:57.108 --> 00:37:58.809 WORK BETTER FOR BOTH OF US IN A 00:37:58.876 --> 00:38:01.012 WAY THAT IS SUSTAINABLE AND 00:38:01.078 --> 00:38:02.413 DURABLE GOING FORWARD. THE 00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:04.649 BASIC CONTOURS OF WHAT THAT 00:38:04.715 --> 00:38:06.817 MEANS HERE ARE, YOU SEE THE 00:38:06.884 --> 00:38:09.320 SAME KIND OF PROMISE NOT TO SUE 00:38:09.387 --> 00:38:11.122 OVER THOSE REVENUE TERMS. I WAS 00:38:11.188 --> 00:38:12.890 MENTIONING EARLIER, THE SPECIAL 00:38:12.957 --> 00:38:14.091 DISTRIBUTION FUND TO DEFRAY THE 00:38:14.158 --> 00:38:15.860 STATE'S REGULATORY COSTS AND 00:38:15.926 --> 00:38:17.561 THE REVENUE SHARING TRUST FUND 00:38:17.628 --> 00:38:20.798 AND TRIBAL NATION GRANT FUND. 00:38:20.865 --> 00:38:24.035 YOU ALSO SEE A MODEST INCREASE 00:38:24.101 --> 00:38:26.570 IN THE NUMBER OF GAMING DEVICES, 00:38:26.637 --> 00:38:28.139 500 ADDITIONAL GAMING DEVICES 00:38:28.205 --> 00:38:30.875 FOR 3000 TOTAL. YOU SEE THE 00:38:30.941 --> 00:38:33.411 SORT OF STANDARD POST CHICKEN 00:38:33.477 --> 00:38:34.812 RANCH CLEAN UP TO MAKE SURE 00:38:34.879 --> 00:38:36.247 THAT OUR COMPACTS ARE 00:38:36.313 --> 00:38:38.849 CONSISTENT WITH CHICKEN RANCH. 00:38:38.916 --> 00:38:41.519 IN THIS CASE, THAT INCLUDES NOT 00:38:41.585 --> 00:38:44.321 ONLY NARROWING THE SCOPE OF 00:38:44.388 --> 00:38:45.456 PROVISIONS, ADDRESSING 00:38:45.523 --> 00:38:46.791 POTENTIAL TORT LIABILITY, WHICH 00:38:46.857 --> 00:38:48.559 IS A STANDARD FEATURE OF ALL OF 00:38:48.626 --> 00:38:49.960 OUR POST CHICKEN RANCH COMPACTS. 00:38:50.027 --> 00:38:52.897 YOU ALSO SEE LANGUAGE THAT 00:38:52.963 --> 00:38:55.466 WOULD ALLOW THE TRIBE TO 00:38:55.533 --> 00:38:57.234 SELF-INSURE RATHER THAN 00:38:57.301 --> 00:38:59.070 PURCHASE COMMERCIAL LIABILITY 00:38:59.136 --> 00:39:01.338 INSURANCE. IN THE CONTEXT OF 00:39:01.405 --> 00:39:03.474 THOSE TALKS, YOU SEE AN 00:39:03.541 --> 00:39:05.543 EXTENDED COMPACT TERM TO TO 00:39:05.609 --> 00:39:06.744 2061. AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY 00:39:06.811 --> 00:39:07.745 OTHER QUESTIONS, BUT I THINK 00:39:07.812 --> 00:39:09.547 THAT'S THAT'S THE BASIC SHAPE 00:39:09.613 --> 00:39:15.252 OF THE AMENDMENT. THANK YOU. 00:39:15.319 --> 00:39:16.687 ANY COMMENTS? I WILL TURN IT 00:39:16.754 --> 00:39:18.489 OVER TO MY COLLEAGUE, SENATOR 00:39:18.556 --> 00:39:22.860 RICHARDSON. THANK YOU, MADAM 00:39:22.927 --> 00:39:24.628 CHAIR. I HAD JUST A GENERAL 00:39:24.695 --> 00:39:26.263 QUESTION FOR MR. LEE. I NOTICED 00:39:26.330 --> 00:39:29.333 WITH SOME OF THESE, THE SLOT 00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:31.135 MACHINES ARE RAISED AT AN 00:39:31.202 --> 00:39:33.938 INCREASE OF 500. IS THERE A 00:39:34.004 --> 00:39:35.873 REASON WHY IS THERE A 00:39:35.940 --> 00:39:37.641 LIMITATION TO 500? WHAT WHAT IS 00:39:37.708 --> 00:39:39.710 THE MAGIC NUMBER OF WHY IT'S 00:39:39.777 --> 00:39:42.246 500 AND NOT MORE? DO THEY HAVE 00:39:42.313 --> 00:39:44.482 THE ABILITY TO SECURE MORE OR 00:39:44.548 --> 00:39:46.250 WHAT? WHAT'S THE ISSUE THERE? 00:39:46.317 --> 00:39:49.120 OR WHY IS IT THAT WAY? GREAT 00:39:49.186 --> 00:39:52.356 QUESTION. THERE'S NO MAGIC 00:39:52.423 --> 00:39:54.225 NUMBER WHEN IT COMES TO THE 00:39:54.291 --> 00:39:56.093 NUMBER OF GAMING DEVICES OR 00:39:56.160 --> 00:39:57.862 GAMING FACILITIES OR THINGS 00:39:57.928 --> 00:40:01.065 LIKE THAT. YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS 00:40:01.132 --> 00:40:03.501 TRY TO BE CAUTIOUS ABOUT ANY 00:40:03.567 --> 00:40:05.236 EXPANSION OF GAMING, ESPECIALLY 00:40:05.302 --> 00:40:06.637 IN A POST CHICKEN RANCH WORLD 00:40:06.704 --> 00:40:10.174 WHERE ONE OF THE RELATIVELY 00:40:10.241 --> 00:40:12.376 SMALL NUMBER OF TOPICS THAT ARE 00:40:12.443 --> 00:40:14.044 NEAR AND DEAR TO THE STATE'S 00:40:14.111 --> 00:40:15.079 HEART THAT WE'RE ABLE TO 00:40:15.146 --> 00:40:18.415 BARGAIN HARD OVER IS THE SIZE 00:40:18.482 --> 00:40:21.252 AND SCALE AND ALSO LOCATION OF 00:40:21.318 --> 00:40:23.420 CASINO STYLE GAMING ACTIVITY. 00:40:23.487 --> 00:40:25.156 SO WE DO TRY TO BE VERY 00:40:25.222 --> 00:40:26.557 THOUGHTFUL AND CAUTIOUS ABOUT 00:40:26.624 --> 00:40:29.493 ANY INCREASE OR EXPANSION THERE. 00:40:29.560 --> 00:40:31.262 THAT SAID, IN IN EACH OF THE 00:40:31.328 --> 00:40:32.363 COMPACT AMENDMENTS HERE, WE 00:40:32.429 --> 00:40:36.867 WERE ABLE TO LAND ON A 00:40:36.934 --> 00:40:38.235 NEGOTIATED NUMBER THAT IS, YOU 00:40:38.302 --> 00:40:41.172 KNOW, HIGHER THAN THE STATUS 00:40:41.238 --> 00:40:43.741 QUO UNDER THE EXISTING COMPACT. 00:40:43.808 --> 00:40:45.976 WELL, YOU KNOW, BEING CAUTIOUS 00:40:46.043 --> 00:40:49.246 ABOUT GOING TOO HIGH. SO I'M 00:40:49.313 --> 00:40:51.048 GOING TO DATE MYSELF A LITTLE 00:40:51.115 --> 00:40:54.218 BIT HERE. I WAS A STAFF MEMBER 00:40:54.285 --> 00:40:55.719 WHEN THE CONTACTS WERE FIRST 00:40:55.786 --> 00:40:57.988 BROUGHT FORWARD. I WORKED FOR 00:40:58.055 --> 00:40:59.323 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR CRUZ 00:40:59.390 --> 00:41:00.591 BUSTAMANTE, AND THERE WAS 00:41:00.658 --> 00:41:02.193 SOMETHING HE SAID. AND I 00:41:02.259 --> 00:41:04.028 REALIZED THAT MR. NEWSOM AND I 00:41:04.094 --> 00:41:05.362 DON'T KNOW IF YOU'LL BE 00:41:05.429 --> 00:41:07.198 CONTINUING IN YOUR ROLE, BUT, 00:41:07.264 --> 00:41:08.732 MADAM CHAIR, AS I KNOW FOR SURE, 00:41:08.799 --> 00:41:11.569 WE WILL BE YOU KNOW, THE 00:41:11.635 --> 00:41:12.703 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR USED TO SAY, 00:41:12.770 --> 00:41:14.438 WE DON'T TELL MCDONALD'S HOW 00:41:14.505 --> 00:41:16.540 MANY BURGERS THEY CAN MAKE OR 00:41:16.607 --> 00:41:20.177 SELL. AND I RESPECT THE CONCERN 00:41:20.244 --> 00:41:21.879 OF SIZE AND ALL OF THAT. BUT I 00:41:21.946 --> 00:41:26.650 ALSO THINK THAT MÀ OF THE 00:41:26.717 --> 00:41:27.918 GAMING FACILITIES THAT I'VE 00:41:27.985 --> 00:41:29.854 BEEN IN, A LOT OF THEM ARE IN 00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:31.055 LARGE PART NOT ONLY WITH THE 00:41:31.121 --> 00:41:32.790 GAMING FACILITY, BUT THE ENTIRE 00:41:32.857 --> 00:41:35.626 RESORT AREA, AGE OF 21 AND 00:41:35.693 --> 00:41:38.162 OLDER. AND I JUST REALLY THINK 00:41:38.229 --> 00:41:39.763 AT SOME POINT IT WOULD BE NICE 00:41:39.830 --> 00:41:41.765 FOR US TO GET AWAY FROM, I 00:41:41.832 --> 00:41:43.367 DON'T KNOW IF IT'S OUR DECISION 00:41:43.434 --> 00:41:45.035 AND OUR LIMITATION. IT SOUNDS 00:41:45.102 --> 00:41:47.171 LIKE WE MIGHT HAVE A CONCERN, 00:41:47.238 --> 00:41:50.040 BUT I REALLY WOULD HOPE THAT WE 00:41:50.107 --> 00:41:52.209 GIVE THE TRIBAL NATIONS, AND I 00:41:52.276 --> 00:41:54.345 EVEN HESITATE TO USE THE WORD 00:41:54.411 --> 00:41:56.113 GIVE, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK IT 00:41:56.180 --> 00:41:57.948 SHOULD BE GIVE. IT'S THEIR LAND 00:41:58.015 --> 00:42:00.818 AND THEIR RIGHTS. AND SO IT 00:42:00.885 --> 00:42:02.553 JUST STRUCK ME THAT I SEE THESE 00:42:02.620 --> 00:42:04.688 AT 500 INCREMENTS. AND I, I 00:42:04.755 --> 00:42:06.257 WOULD HOPE GOING FORWARD, MADAM 00:42:06.323 --> 00:42:09.159 CHAIR, THAT IT WOULD BE 00:42:09.226 --> 00:42:10.327 INTERESTING TO ME TO SEE WHAT 00:42:10.394 --> 00:42:13.464 THE ORIGINAL REQUEST IS. AND IF 00:42:13.530 --> 00:42:16.300 FOR SOME REASON WE HAVE THE 00:42:16.367 --> 00:42:18.102 ABILITY TO TO ADJUST IN THAT, I 00:42:18.168 --> 00:42:19.169 THINK THAT WE SHOULD BECAUSE 00:42:19.236 --> 00:42:23.173 THIS ISN'T, YOU KNOW, IF IF A 00:42:23.240 --> 00:42:25.342 TRIBAL NATION IS WILLING TO 00:42:25.409 --> 00:42:27.478 BUILD A FACILITY THAT'S LARGE 00:42:27.544 --> 00:42:30.748 ENOUGH TO HOLD ENOUGH MACHINES, 00:42:30.814 --> 00:42:32.816 YOU KNOW, WHAT BUSINESS IS IT 00:42:32.883 --> 00:42:35.686 OF MINE, FRANKLY, WHETHER THEY 00:42:35.753 --> 00:42:39.423 HAVE. WHETHER THEY HAVE, LET'S 00:42:39.490 --> 00:42:41.859 SEE, 3000 OR WHETHER THEY HAVE 00:42:41.926 --> 00:42:44.395 5000. AND I THINK WHEN PEOPLE 00:42:44.461 --> 00:42:47.932 ARE COMING TO PARTICIPATE IN 00:42:47.998 --> 00:42:50.134 THE EVENING AND, YOU KNOW, THE 00:42:50.200 --> 00:42:52.970 ACTIVITY AND ALL OF THAT, IF IT 00:42:53.037 --> 00:42:54.772 PROVIDES A BETTER, YOU KNOW, 00:42:54.838 --> 00:42:56.340 ENVIRONMENT, YOU KNOW, WHO WHO 00:42:56.407 --> 00:42:59.510 AM I TO DECIDE? SO I WOULD JUST 00:42:59.576 --> 00:43:01.946 HOPE THAT MAYBE YOU CAN TAKE 00:43:02.012 --> 00:43:03.047 THAT BACK. AND ALSO WE'LL 00:43:03.113 --> 00:43:05.749 CONSIDER GOING FORWARD. I DON'T 00:43:05.816 --> 00:43:08.852 KNOW WHAT THIS NUMBER OF 500 IS, 00:43:08.919 --> 00:43:10.921 BUT I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO HEAR 00:43:10.988 --> 00:43:13.524 IN THE FUTURE WHAT THE TRIBAL 00:43:13.590 --> 00:43:15.726 NATIONS FEEL IS, IS THE 00:43:15.793 --> 00:43:17.494 APPROPRIATE NUMBER AND 00:43:17.561 --> 00:43:18.929 INCREMENT. WE'RE NOT PRIVY TO 00:43:18.996 --> 00:43:20.698 THOSE INITIAL NEGOTIATIONS, SO 00:43:20.764 --> 00:43:23.634 WE HAVE NO IDEA. BUT IT JUST 00:43:23.701 --> 00:43:25.869 SEEMS TO ME THAT, LIKE I SAID 00:43:25.936 --> 00:43:27.972 IN IN THE HONOR OF MY OLD BOSS, 00:43:28.038 --> 00:43:29.340 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR CRUZ 00:43:29.406 --> 00:43:31.575 BUSTAMANTE, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T 00:43:31.642 --> 00:43:33.577 TELL IN AND OUT WHEN THEY BUY A 00:43:33.644 --> 00:43:35.512 FACILITY, YOU CAN ONLY SELL 00:43:35.579 --> 00:43:37.481 5000 DOUBLE DOUBLES IN A MONTH. 00:43:37.548 --> 00:43:39.183 IF YOU CAN SELL 10,000, YOU 00:43:39.249 --> 00:43:41.251 KNOW, SO BE IT. AND IT JUST 00:43:41.318 --> 00:43:44.922 SEEMS THAT WE REALLY. AS LONG 00:43:44.989 --> 00:43:47.057 AS THE COMPACTS, THE ORIGINAL 00:43:47.124 --> 00:43:48.792 COMPACTS NOW HAVE BEEN INTO 00:43:48.859 --> 00:43:51.762 EFFECT, I THINK, YOU KNOW, I'D 00:43:51.829 --> 00:43:54.932 LIKE TO SEE US REALLY GROW FROM 00:43:54.999 --> 00:43:57.801 GROW IN TIME AND UNDERSTANDING 00:43:57.868 --> 00:44:01.505 AND, AND IN AGREEMENT. I WON'T 00:44:01.572 --> 00:44:03.140 SAY SUPPORT BECAUSE TO ME IT'S 00:44:03.207 --> 00:44:04.408 NOT SUPPORT. IT'S THEIR LAND 00:44:04.475 --> 00:44:06.110 AND THEY'RE ENTITLED TO TO DO 00:44:06.176 --> 00:44:08.278 THEIR BUSINESS. SO HOPEFULLY 00:44:08.345 --> 00:44:09.680 DOWN THE ROAD NEXT YEAR, WE CAN 00:44:09.747 --> 00:44:11.882 HAVE FURTHER CONVERSATIONS 00:44:11.949 --> 00:44:14.752 SINCE WE'RE NOT. BUT FOR THIS 00:44:14.818 --> 00:44:16.020 COMMITTEE TO BETTER UNDERSTAND 00:44:16.086 --> 00:44:18.722 WHAT THE REQUEST IS AND AGAIN, 00:44:18.789 --> 00:44:19.890 NOT REQUEST BECAUSE I DON'T 00:44:19.957 --> 00:44:21.959 THINK IT SHOULD BE A REQUEST, 00:44:22.026 --> 00:44:24.061 BUT REALLY WHAT THE TRIBAL 00:44:24.128 --> 00:44:26.130 NATION'S INTEREST IS SO WE CAN 00:44:26.196 --> 00:44:28.065 BE MORE SUPPORTIVE. AND AS LONG 00:44:28.132 --> 00:44:30.267 AS, YOU KNOW, COMPLYING WITH 00:44:30.334 --> 00:44:32.403 SAFETY AND FIRE HAZARDS, YOU 00:44:32.469 --> 00:44:35.005 KNOW, OTHER THAN THAT, I'D LIKE 00:44:35.072 --> 00:44:40.711 TO SEE A GREATER. AGREEMENT 00:44:40.778 --> 00:44:42.846 GOING FORWARD. THANK YOU. THANK 00:44:42.913 --> 00:44:44.314 YOU. AND I KNOW EVERYTHING IS 00:44:44.381 --> 00:44:46.016 SUBJECT TO NEGOTIATIONS, BUT 00:44:46.083 --> 00:44:47.851 WOULD EITHER ONE OF YOU CARE TO 00:44:47.918 --> 00:44:49.586 ADDRESS HER QUESTION ABOUT THE 00:44:49.653 --> 00:44:52.856 LIMITATIONS? 500 INCREMENTS. 00:44:52.923 --> 00:44:57.127 GOOD. WITHOUT NECESSARILY 00:44:57.194 --> 00:44:58.762 SPEAKING TO THE NITTY GRITTY OF 00:44:58.829 --> 00:45:00.064 ANY SPECIFIC NEGOTIATION, 00:45:00.130 --> 00:45:01.498 BECAUSE OF COURSE, IT'S IT'S 00:45:01.565 --> 00:45:04.068 ALWAYS A BACK AND FORTH. AND, 00:45:04.134 --> 00:45:09.106 AND, YOU KNOW, OFTENTIMES THERE, 00:45:09.173 --> 00:45:12.376 YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST A MATTER OF 00:45:12.443 --> 00:45:13.744 WHAT THAT BACK AND FORTH 00:45:13.811 --> 00:45:15.312 PROCESS AND THAT DIALOG CAN, 00:45:15.379 --> 00:45:16.814 CAN PRODUCE. WHEN YOU HAVE 00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:17.314 REPRESENTATIVES OF TWO 00:45:17.381 --> 00:45:18.348 DIFFERENT GOVERNMENTS, 00:45:18.415 --> 00:45:19.349 POTENTIALLY WITH TWO DIFFERENT 00:45:19.416 --> 00:45:21.185 SETS OF INTERESTS IN THEIR OWN. 00:45:21.251 --> 00:45:24.788 I THINK FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, 00:45:24.855 --> 00:45:26.924 TWO ADDITIONAL THINGS I WOULD 00:45:26.990 --> 00:45:32.329 FLAG ARE, AS WE UNDERSTAND, THE 00:45:32.396 --> 00:45:33.831 BALLOT INITIATIVE THAT 00:45:33.897 --> 00:45:35.966 LEGALIZED TRIBAL GAMING BACK IN 00:45:36.033 --> 00:45:37.367 2000, THAT WAS PROPOSITION ONE, 00:45:37.434 --> 00:45:39.903 A, AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE 00:45:39.970 --> 00:45:41.305 PROMISE OR THE COMMITMENT THAT 00:45:41.371 --> 00:45:45.609 WAS MADE TO VOTERS IN WHEN THAT 00:45:45.676 --> 00:45:47.478 BALLOT INITIATIVE WAS PASSED, 00:45:47.544 --> 00:45:49.213 WAS THAT TRIBAL GAMING WOULD 00:45:49.279 --> 00:45:50.848 REMAIN GEOGRAPHICALLY LIMITED. 00:45:50.914 --> 00:45:52.483 YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE NOT GOING 00:45:52.549 --> 00:45:55.052 TO SEE, YOU KNOW, BIG CASINOS 00:45:55.119 --> 00:45:56.787 IN DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO OR 00:45:56.854 --> 00:46:00.824 OAKLAND OR PLACES LIKE THAT. 00:46:00.891 --> 00:46:02.426 NOW, GEOGRAPHIC LIMITATION 00:46:02.493 --> 00:46:03.760 ISN'T NECESSARILY THE SAME 00:46:03.827 --> 00:46:05.462 THING AS LIMITS ON TRIBAL 00:46:05.529 --> 00:46:06.864 GAMING IN GENERAL. BUT WE DO 00:46:06.930 --> 00:46:08.665 TRY TO, YOU KNOW, TAKE THE 00:46:08.732 --> 00:46:10.134 SPIRIT OF PROP ONE Ã TO HEART 00:46:10.200 --> 00:46:12.636 IN TERMS OF BEING CAREFUL AND 00:46:12.703 --> 00:46:14.838 THOUGHTFUL ABOUT NOT SIMPLY 00:46:14.905 --> 00:46:16.240 THROWING OPEN THE DOOR TO 00:46:16.306 --> 00:46:18.408 UNLIMITED GAMING, DOING WHAT WE 00:46:18.475 --> 00:46:21.678 CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT ANY 00:46:21.745 --> 00:46:23.046 GROWTH IN TRIBAL GAMING IS 00:46:23.113 --> 00:46:25.582 CAUTIOUS AND, AND INCREMENTAL. 00:46:25.649 --> 00:46:28.519 AND I THINK THE THE SECOND FLAG, 00:46:28.585 --> 00:46:31.421 FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE IS IN SOME 00:46:31.488 --> 00:46:33.524 WAYS THAT HAS BECOME EVEN MORE 00:46:33.590 --> 00:46:34.558 IMPORTANT IN A POST CHICKEN 00:46:34.625 --> 00:46:36.059 RANCH WORLD. YOU KNOW, IF WE 00:46:36.126 --> 00:46:38.562 WERE ABLE TO BARGAIN FOR A 00:46:38.629 --> 00:46:40.531 BROADER UNIVERSE OF THINGS ON 00:46:40.597 --> 00:46:43.867 THE BACK END IN IN SOME WAYS 00:46:43.934 --> 00:46:49.339 WOULD BE EASIER TO. OPEN THE 00:46:49.406 --> 00:46:52.576 DOOR TO A MORE SIGNIFICANT 00:46:52.643 --> 00:46:54.011 INCREASE IN THE SCALE OF 00:46:54.077 --> 00:46:55.846 POTENTIAL GAMING ACTIVITIES ON 00:46:55.913 --> 00:46:58.015 THE FRONT END. BUT IN A WORLD 00:46:58.081 --> 00:47:00.184 WHERE WE ARE, YOU KNOW, VERY 00:47:00.250 --> 00:47:02.653 LIMITED IN OUR ABILITY TO 00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:04.454 BARGAIN OVER THINGS LIKE THE 00:47:04.521 --> 00:47:08.058 THE IMPACTS OF LARGE SCALE 00:47:08.125 --> 00:47:09.226 CASINO STYLE GAMING, I THINK WE 00:47:09.293 --> 00:47:10.994 SEE THAT AS AN ADDITIONAL 00:47:11.061 --> 00:47:14.631 REASON NOT TO BREAK FROM OUR 00:47:14.698 --> 00:47:15.999 PRIOR PRACTICE OF BEING 00:47:16.066 --> 00:47:18.168 CAUTIOUS ABOUT THAT POTENTIAL 00:47:18.235 --> 00:47:20.671 EXPANSION. MADAM CHAIR, COULD I 00:47:20.737 --> 00:47:23.907 REPLY? ABSOLUTELY. WITH ALL DUE 00:47:23.974 --> 00:47:25.342 RESPECT, WE'RE PROBABLY GOING 00:47:25.409 --> 00:47:29.012 TO AGREE TO DISAGREE. BUT 00:47:29.079 --> 00:47:30.447 THAT'S WHAT RESERVATION 00:47:30.514 --> 00:47:32.182 SHOPPING IS ALL ABOUT THAT 00:47:32.249 --> 00:47:35.052 TRIBAL NATIONS HAVE IDENTIFIED 00:47:35.118 --> 00:47:39.723 AREAS IN WHICH THEY HAVE GAINED 00:47:39.790 --> 00:47:42.259 RECOGNITION, AND IT'S MY 00:47:42.326 --> 00:47:44.428 UNDERSTANDING. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE 00:47:44.494 --> 00:47:46.597 TRIBE, TRIBAL NATION, CAN'T, 00:47:46.663 --> 00:47:49.166 YOU KNOW, GO INTO ANOTHER ONE. 00:47:49.233 --> 00:47:51.935 SO THE ISSUE OF, OH, WE GOT TO 00:47:52.002 --> 00:47:53.403 PROTECT GEOGRAPHIC TO ME, 00:47:53.470 --> 00:47:55.939 INHERENT WITHIN THEIR OWN 00:47:56.006 --> 00:47:58.542 RECOGNIZED TERRITORIES. 00:47:58.609 --> 00:48:00.978 IDENTIFY THE SPAN OF THE AREA. 00:48:01.044 --> 00:48:02.412 AND AGAIN, I'M, I'M REALLY 00:48:02.479 --> 00:48:03.880 GOING TO PUSH BACK THAT. I 00:48:03.947 --> 00:48:05.682 THINK WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD 00:48:05.749 --> 00:48:07.884 IN OUR THINKING. WE DON'T 00:48:07.951 --> 00:48:10.354 RESTRICT THAT A CANE'S CHICKEN 00:48:10.420 --> 00:48:12.723 PLACE CAN OPERATE. I'LL GIVE 00:48:12.789 --> 00:48:14.524 YOU ONE OF THE CITIES I 00:48:14.591 --> 00:48:16.093 REPRESENT. CITY OF CARSON. 00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:19.329 THERE'S A CHANGE. CHICKEN 00:48:19.396 --> 00:48:20.831 RESTAURANT. THERE'S A CHICK FIL 00:48:20.897 --> 00:48:22.899 A, THERE'S AN IN AND OUT. 00:48:22.966 --> 00:48:25.669 THERE'S A TONY ROMA'S. THERE'S, 00:48:25.736 --> 00:48:27.271 YOU KNOW, THERE'S A CHILI'S. 00:48:27.337 --> 00:48:30.173 THERE'S A, YOU KNOW, LET THE 00:48:30.240 --> 00:48:32.342 PEOPLE DECIDE WHERE THEY WANT 00:48:32.409 --> 00:48:34.845 TO GO AND WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. 00:48:34.911 --> 00:48:37.681 I THINK IF, IF THE PEOPLE, IF 00:48:37.748 --> 00:48:41.718 AN AREA, IF AN AREA AND A 00:48:41.785 --> 00:48:43.086 COMMUNITY DOESN'T SUPPORT 00:48:43.153 --> 00:48:44.955 SOMETHING, THE BUSINESS WILL, 00:48:45.022 --> 00:48:47.057 WILL SHOW IT FOR ITSELF. AND 00:48:47.124 --> 00:48:48.292 PEOPLE WILL SAY, WELL, NO, YOU 00:48:48.358 --> 00:48:49.960 KNOW, THERE'S TEN, THERE'S 00:48:50.027 --> 00:48:51.428 REALLY TOO MANY. YOU KNOW, I 00:48:51.495 --> 00:48:53.397 ONLY WANT TO GO TO THIS ONE 00:48:53.463 --> 00:48:54.965 BECAUSE OF THIS REASON. BUT FOR 00:48:55.032 --> 00:48:58.602 US TO AND I, I REALIZE THE, 00:48:58.669 --> 00:49:00.003 AGAIN, I WAS A STAFFER, I WAS 00:49:00.070 --> 00:49:01.738 HERE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WERE 00:49:01.805 --> 00:49:03.640 HERE, BUT I WAS HERE WHEN THE 00:49:03.707 --> 00:49:04.908 COMPACTS FIRST CAME FORWARD. 00:49:04.975 --> 00:49:07.644 AND I'M QUITE FAMILIAR WITH, 00:49:07.711 --> 00:49:09.913 YOU KNOW, THIS BUILDING AND, 00:49:09.980 --> 00:49:11.581 YOU KNOW, JUST NOT LITERALLY 00:49:11.648 --> 00:49:13.016 THIS BUILDING, IT WAS OVER AT 00:49:13.083 --> 00:49:15.886 THE CAPITOL. BUT, YOU KNOW, IT 00:49:15.952 --> 00:49:17.654 WAS A BIG THING. BUT I JUST 00:49:17.721 --> 00:49:19.489 THINK AT SOME POINT WE HAVE TO 00:49:19.556 --> 00:49:22.359 PROGRESS WITH TIME. AND I THINK 00:49:22.426 --> 00:49:24.928 PEOPLE HAVE OBVIOUSLY SHOWN AN 00:49:24.995 --> 00:49:26.697 INTEREST. THERE'S MORE THAN 00:49:26.763 --> 00:49:28.498 GAMING AT THESE FACILITIES. 00:49:28.565 --> 00:49:30.834 THERE'S ENTERTAINMENT, THERE'S 00:49:30.901 --> 00:49:32.936 ALL SORTS OF OTHER THERE'S SPAS. 00:49:33.003 --> 00:49:35.305 YOU KNOW, I, I WENT TO AN 00:49:35.372 --> 00:49:37.808 INCREDIBLE MASSAGE THAT I HAD 00:49:37.874 --> 00:49:39.276 THREE WEEKS AGO DURING OUR 00:49:39.343 --> 00:49:40.777 DISTRICT WORK PERIOD. I MEAN, 00:49:40.844 --> 00:49:42.546 THERE'S OTHER PARTS OF THE 00:49:42.612 --> 00:49:44.314 BUSINESS. AND I JUST REALLY 00:49:44.381 --> 00:49:46.950 THINK, MADAM CHAIR, THAT AS WE 00:49:47.017 --> 00:49:49.319 GO INTO NEXT YEAR, THERE REALLY 00:49:49.386 --> 00:49:51.888 NEEDS TO BE A NEW THINKING OF, 00:49:51.955 --> 00:49:55.692 OF THE AREAS THAT WE OPERATE IN 00:49:55.759 --> 00:49:57.627 AND HAVE AN AGREEMENT THAT WE 00:49:57.694 --> 00:49:59.796 REALLY BEGIN TO, I THINK, 00:49:59.863 --> 00:50:03.066 RETHINK OUR THE THINGS, YOU 00:50:03.133 --> 00:50:04.568 KNOW, THAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON, IS 00:50:04.634 --> 00:50:07.704 THAT REALLY THE BEST AND THE, 00:50:07.771 --> 00:50:09.473 THE ISSUE AND WAY TO GO. AND I 00:50:09.539 --> 00:50:12.409 DIDN'T MEAN TO ONLY DO THIS IN 00:50:12.476 --> 00:50:14.878 SAN INEZ'S PORTION, SO I 00:50:14.945 --> 00:50:17.114 APOLOGIZE, MR. CHAIRMAN, ABOUT 00:50:17.180 --> 00:50:18.915 THAT. BUT I JUST SAW IT 00:50:18.982 --> 00:50:20.250 CONSISTENTLY WITH ALL OF THESE, 00:50:20.317 --> 00:50:21.451 THE SAME NUMBER. AND I FELT 00:50:21.518 --> 00:50:23.320 THIS WAS A GOOD TIME TO BRING 00:50:23.387 --> 00:50:25.222 IT UP. SO I LOOK FORWARD TO 00:50:25.288 --> 00:50:26.356 WORKING WITH YOU, MADAM CHAIR, 00:50:26.423 --> 00:50:28.592 BUT I THINK I MADE I MADE MY 00:50:28.658 --> 00:50:30.761 POINT, AND I JUST HOPE WE CAN 00:50:30.827 --> 00:50:33.997 MOVE FORWARD TO BROADER 00:50:34.064 --> 00:50:35.766 THINKING IN THIS 21ST CENTURY. 00:50:35.832 --> 00:50:38.168 THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SENATOR. 00:50:38.235 --> 00:50:39.770 I WOULD LIKE TO NOW INVITE 00:50:39.836 --> 00:50:41.571 ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS 00:50:41.638 --> 00:50:43.039 MATTER TO COME UP TO THE 00:50:43.106 --> 00:50:46.376 MICROPHONE. MADAM CHAIR, THAT'S 00:50:46.443 --> 00:50:48.011 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE 00:50:48.078 --> 00:50:50.247 DERAILS A CONVERSATION. 00:50:50.313 --> 00:50:52.449 APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS AND 00:50:52.516 --> 00:50:54.217 WELCOME. GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. 00:50:54.284 --> 00:50:54.918 ABSOLUTELY. WHENEVER YOU'RE 00:50:54.985 --> 00:50:56.453 READY. GOOD MORNING. GOOD 00:50:56.520 --> 00:50:57.788 MORNING, CHAIR RUBIO AND 00:50:57.854 --> 00:50:59.689 MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE. MY 00:50:59.756 --> 00:51:01.057 NAME IS KENNETH KHN. I'M 00:51:01.124 --> 00:51:02.692 CHAIRMAN OF THE SANTA YNEZ BAND 00:51:02.759 --> 00:51:04.694 OF CHUMASH INDIANS. I'M HERE TO 00:51:04.761 --> 00:51:05.429 RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR YOUR 00:51:05.495 --> 00:51:07.531 SUPPORT OF SENATE BILL 542, 00:51:07.597 --> 00:51:08.932 AUTHORED BY SENATE PRESIDENT 00:51:08.999 --> 00:51:11.468 PRO TEMPORE MONIQUE LIMON, TO 00:51:11.535 --> 00:51:14.004 RATIFY OUR 2026 TRIBAL STATE 00:51:14.070 --> 00:51:16.473 GAMING COMPACT AMENDMENT. OUR 00:51:16.540 --> 00:51:17.374 CHUMASH PEOPLE HAVE LIVED IN 00:51:17.441 --> 00:51:19.042 THE SANTA BARBARA REGION SINCE 00:51:19.109 --> 00:51:21.178 TIME IMMEMORIAL. OUR ABORIGINAL 00:51:21.244 --> 00:51:23.013 TIES TO THESE LANDS ARE 00:51:23.079 --> 00:51:24.815 PROFOUND AND OUR HISTORY IS ONE 00:51:24.881 --> 00:51:26.950 OF PERSEVERANCE, CULTURAL 00:51:27.017 --> 00:51:28.718 STRENGTH, AND ENDURING 00:51:28.785 --> 00:51:30.187 RESPONSIBILITY TO FUTURE 00:51:30.253 --> 00:51:32.289 GENERATIONS. AMONG THE AMENDED 00:51:32.355 --> 00:51:33.790 TERMS, THE EXTENSION OF OUR 00:51:33.857 --> 00:51:35.625 COMPACT IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT. 00:51:35.692 --> 00:51:37.727 IT PROVIDES THE LONG TERM 00:51:37.794 --> 00:51:39.162 CERTAINTY OUR TRIBAL GOVERNMENT 00:51:39.229 --> 00:51:41.364 NEEDS TO PLAN RESPONSIBLY, 00:51:41.431 --> 00:51:43.400 INVEST WISELY AND CONTINUE 00:51:43.467 --> 00:51:44.968 BUILDING A SECURE FUTURE FOR 00:51:45.035 --> 00:51:47.504 OUR PEOPLE. OUR TRIBAL 00:51:47.571 --> 00:51:48.605 ENTERPRISE SUPPORTS 00:51:48.672 --> 00:51:50.674 APPROXIMATELY 2000 JOBS. THE 00:51:50.740 --> 00:51:51.808 STABILITY PROVIDED BY THIS 00:51:51.875 --> 00:51:53.243 AMENDMENT WILL HELP PROTECT 00:51:53.310 --> 00:51:55.011 THOSE JOBS AND FAMILIES WHO 00:51:55.078 --> 00:51:57.214 DEPEND ON THEM. IT WILL ALSO 00:51:57.280 --> 00:51:58.248 SUSTAIN OUR SIGNIFICANT 00:51:58.315 --> 00:51:59.816 ECONOMIC IMPACT THROUGHOUT THE 00:51:59.883 --> 00:52:01.518 TRI COUNTY REGION BY SUPPORTING 00:52:01.585 --> 00:52:03.987 LOCAL BUSINESSES, VENDORS, 00:52:04.054 --> 00:52:05.789 CONTRACTORS, NONPROFIT 00:52:05.856 --> 00:52:07.324 ORGANIZATIONS, AND PUBLIC 00:52:07.390 --> 00:52:09.092 AGENCIES. GAMING REVENUES ALLOW 00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:10.160 OUR TRIBAL GOVERNMENT TO 00:52:10.227 --> 00:52:12.662 PROVIDE HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION, 00:52:12.729 --> 00:52:14.097 SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES, 00:52:14.164 --> 00:52:15.499 CULTURAL PROGRAMING AND 00:52:15.565 --> 00:52:17.334 ESSENTIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, 00:52:17.400 --> 00:52:19.102 INCLUDING HOUSING THAT ENABLES 00:52:19.169 --> 00:52:21.004 MORE OF OUR PEOPLE TO LIVE WITH 00:52:21.071 --> 00:52:23.473 WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY AND REMAIN 00:52:23.540 --> 00:52:25.275 CONNECTED TO THEIR CULTURE AND 00:52:25.342 --> 00:52:27.010 ANCESTRAL HOMELAND. THIS 00:52:27.077 --> 00:52:29.212 COMPACT EXTENSION IS ABOUT FAR 00:52:29.279 --> 00:52:31.114 MORE THAN JUST GAMING. IT IS 00:52:31.181 --> 00:52:33.517 ABOUT ECONOMIC SECURITY, 00:52:33.583 --> 00:52:35.385 RESPONSIBLE TRIBAL GOVERNANCE, 00:52:35.452 --> 00:52:37.521 CULTURAL PRESERVATION, AND OUR 00:52:37.587 --> 00:52:38.955 CONTINUED ABILITY TO CARE FOR 00:52:39.022 --> 00:52:40.624 OUR PEOPLE WHILE CONTRIBUTING 00:52:40.690 --> 00:52:42.592 TO THE BROADER REGION. ON 00:52:42.659 --> 00:52:43.693 BEHALF OF THE SANTA YNEZ BAND 00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:45.428 OF CHUMASH INDIANS, I THANK 00:52:45.495 --> 00:52:47.597 PRESIDENT PRO TEM LIMON FOR 00:52:47.664 --> 00:52:50.133 AUTHORING SB 542, AND I 00:52:50.200 --> 00:52:51.201 RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR YOUR 00:52:51.268 --> 00:52:52.969 SUPPORT IN ADVANCING THIS BILL 00:52:53.036 --> 00:52:54.437 AND FOR YOUR AYE VOTE WHEN IT 00:52:54.504 --> 00:52:56.206 DOES COME BEFORE YOU ON THE 00:52:56.273 --> 00:53:00.243 SENATE FLOOR. AND THANK YOU. 00:53:00.310 --> 00:53:02.345 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TESTIMONY. 00:53:02.412 --> 00:53:03.513 NOW, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE 00:53:03.580 --> 00:53:04.915 MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE WHO 00:53:04.981 --> 00:53:06.950 WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER. 00:53:07.017 --> 00:53:08.451 PLEASE COME UP TO THE 00:53:08.518 --> 00:53:12.022 MICROPHONE. SEEING NO INTEREST. 00:53:12.088 --> 00:53:13.557 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING 00:53:13.623 --> 00:53:16.426 US HERE TODAY. AND THIS 00:53:16.493 --> 00:53:18.061 CONCLUDES THIS PRESENTATION, 00:53:18.128 --> 00:53:19.930 THIS INFORMATIONAL HEARING. I 00:53:19.996 --> 00:53:23.567 WILL NOW MOVE OVER TO SECOND 00:53:23.633 --> 00:53:25.068 AMENDMENT TO THE TRIBAL STATE 00:53:25.135 --> 00:53:26.469 COMPACT BETWEEN STATE OF 00:53:26.536 --> 00:53:28.271 CALIFORNIA, AND THAT YOU HAVE. 00:53:28.338 --> 00:53:32.242 VÆ TOM OF SEMINOLE NATION TO 00:53:32.309 --> 00:53:34.711 JOIN US UP HERE. WE HAVE FIRST 00:53:34.778 --> 00:53:36.546 AGAIN, MR. LEE AND JOHNNY 00:53:36.613 --> 00:53:39.416 HERNANDEZ, VICE CHAIRMAN, AS 00:53:39.482 --> 00:53:41.885 WELL AS DON ROE, CHAIRWOMAN OF 00:53:41.952 --> 00:53:43.753 SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY BOARD OF 00:53:43.820 --> 00:53:47.023 SUPERVISORS. I BELIEVE, HERE 00:53:47.090 --> 00:54:03.306 WITH US TODAY. 00:54:19.055 --> 00:54:19.389 WHEN YOU'RE 00:54:19.456 --> 00:54:21.524 READY, MR. LEE, YOU MAY BEGIN. 00:54:21.591 --> 00:54:22.959 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM 00:54:23.026 --> 00:54:27.364 CHAIR. THIS IS ANOTHER COMPACT 00:54:27.430 --> 00:54:29.099 AMENDMENT SIMILAR TO THE 00:54:29.165 --> 00:54:29.733 AMENDMENTS THAT YOU'VE ALREADY 00:54:29.799 --> 00:54:32.636 HEARD ABOUT FROM AGUA CALIENTE 00:54:32.702 --> 00:54:34.838 AND CHUMASH, AND THAT YOU WILL 00:54:34.904 --> 00:54:36.306 HEAR ABOUT SHORTLY INVOLVING 00:54:36.373 --> 00:54:38.408 PECHANGA, IN WHICH WE HAVE A 00:54:38.475 --> 00:54:39.509 TRIBAL GOVERNMENT THAT HAS 00:54:39.576 --> 00:54:40.543 REALLY BEEN AN EXCELLENT 00:54:40.610 --> 00:54:43.079 PARTNER TO THE STATE, THAT IS 00:54:43.146 --> 00:54:47.484 FOCUSED ON MAINTAINING A 00:54:47.550 --> 00:54:49.653 PRODUCTIVE, RESPECTFUL, 00:54:49.719 --> 00:54:51.721 COLLABORATIVE GOVERNMENT TO 00:54:51.788 --> 00:54:53.556 GOVERNMENT RELATIONSHIP WITH 00:54:53.623 --> 00:54:55.425 THE STATE, NOT JUST IN A POST 00:54:55.492 --> 00:54:56.493 CHICKEN RANCH CONTEXT, BUT 00:54:56.559 --> 00:54:59.663 REALLY ACROSS THE BOARD. AND SO 00:54:59.729 --> 00:55:01.865 WHAT YOU SEE IN THE IN THE 00:55:01.931 --> 00:55:05.035 AMENDMENT BEFORE YOU IS THAT 00:55:05.101 --> 00:55:07.971 SAME KIND OF BARGAIN THAT WE'VE 00:55:08.038 --> 00:55:10.106 BEEN DESCRIBING SO FAR. YOU SEE 00:55:10.173 --> 00:55:12.976 A PROMISE NOT TO SUE OVER THOSE 00:55:13.043 --> 00:55:14.811 REVENUE TERMS THAT I'VE 00:55:14.878 --> 00:55:18.782 HIGHLIGHTED, YOU SEE, FROM THE 00:55:18.848 --> 00:55:22.385 TRIBAL GOVERNMENT SIDE, YOU SEE, 00:55:22.452 --> 00:55:25.955 IN FACT, A REDOUBLED AND 00:55:26.022 --> 00:55:30.627 EXTENDED COMMITMENT TO PAY EVEN, 00:55:30.694 --> 00:55:32.429 YOU KNOW, IN INCREASED 00:55:32.495 --> 00:55:33.663 SUPPLEMENT INTO THE REVENUE 00:55:33.730 --> 00:55:35.765 SHARING TRUST FUND BEYOND WHAT 00:55:35.832 --> 00:55:37.801 THE TRIBE HAD ANY EXISTING 00:55:37.867 --> 00:55:41.037 OBLIGATION TO PAY IN RETURN. 00:55:41.104 --> 00:55:43.907 YOU SEE, YOU DO SEE AN INCREASE 00:55:43.973 --> 00:55:45.909 IN THE NUMBER OF GAMING DEVICES. 00:55:45.975 --> 00:55:48.278 IT'S A 1000 ADDITIONAL DEVICES, 00:55:48.344 --> 00:55:51.548 THIS TIME FOR A TOTAL OF 8500. 00:55:51.614 --> 00:55:54.017 YOU SEE SOME OF THE, YOU KNOW, 00:55:54.084 --> 00:55:55.852 SIMILAR GEOGRAPHIC FLEXIBILITY 00:55:55.919 --> 00:55:57.987 TO THE KIND OF GEOGRAPHIC 00:55:58.054 --> 00:55:59.656 FLEXIBILITY I WAS DESCRIBING IN 00:55:59.723 --> 00:56:01.524 THE CONTEXT OF OF THE FORT 00:56:01.591 --> 00:56:03.393 MOJAVE COMPACT. THERE IS A 00:56:03.460 --> 00:56:04.828 PROVISION IN THIS COMPACT 00:56:04.894 --> 00:56:08.798 AMENDMENT FOR A FUTURE TWO PART 00:56:08.865 --> 00:56:09.933 DETERMINATION, IF THERE EVER IS 00:56:09.999 --> 00:56:12.736 SUCH A FUTURE. TWO PART 00:56:12.802 --> 00:56:14.704 DETERMINATION BY THE SECRETARY 00:56:14.771 --> 00:56:16.506 OF THE INTERIOR, AND IF A 00:56:16.573 --> 00:56:18.942 FUTURE GOVERNOR CONCURS IN IT, 00:56:19.008 --> 00:56:21.044 THEN THIS COMPACT AMENDMENT 00:56:21.111 --> 00:56:24.447 WOULD ALLOW GAMING AT THE SITE 00:56:24.514 --> 00:56:26.149 THAT WAS APPROVED THROUGH THAT 00:56:26.216 --> 00:56:29.986 TWO PART DETERMINATION PROCESS. 00:56:30.053 --> 00:56:33.323 YOU ALSO SEE A PROVISION IN THE 00:56:33.389 --> 00:56:34.724 COMPACT THAT IS RELATIVELY 00:56:34.791 --> 00:56:37.227 COMMON IN IN SOME OF OUR MORE 00:56:37.293 --> 00:56:38.828 RECENT COMPACTS THAT REQUIRES 00:56:38.895 --> 00:56:44.067 THE STATE TO RE ENTER INTO 00:56:44.134 --> 00:56:45.635 NEGOTIATIONS. IF THE STATE EVER 00:56:45.702 --> 00:56:48.905 DOES LEGALIZE A NEW FORM OF 00:56:48.972 --> 00:56:49.939 CLASS THREE GAMING, SO THAT THE 00:56:50.006 --> 00:56:51.808 COMPACT COULD BE UPDATED. TO 00:56:51.875 --> 00:56:54.043 ACCOUNT FOR THAT, YOU SEE AN 00:56:54.110 --> 00:56:56.346 EXTENDED COMPACT TERM TO 2051 00:56:56.412 --> 00:56:58.381 AND YOU SEE THE SAME KIND OF 00:56:58.448 --> 00:56:59.349 STANDARD POST CHICKEN RANCH 00:56:59.415 --> 00:57:01.317 CLEANUP THAT WE'VE BEEN 00:57:01.384 --> 00:57:02.352 DISCUSSING IN OTHER COMPACTS. 00:57:02.418 --> 00:57:03.753 HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS, 00:57:03.820 --> 00:57:05.188 BUT THAT'S THAT'S THE BASIC 00:57:05.255 --> 00:57:07.724 SHAPE OF THE AMENDMENT. THANK 00:57:07.791 --> 00:57:10.059 YOU FOR YOUR TESTIMONY. AND 00:57:10.126 --> 00:57:12.095 THIS IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME. 00:57:12.162 --> 00:57:12.829 UNFORTUNATELY, I'M BEING 00:57:12.896 --> 00:57:14.130 SUMMONED TO THE SENATE FLOOR ON 00:57:14.197 --> 00:57:15.665 A VERY TIME SENSITIVE MATTER, 00:57:15.732 --> 00:57:18.067 SO I WILL HAVE TO TURN IT OVER 00:57:18.134 --> 00:57:19.936 TO MY VICE CHAIR TO TAKE OVER 00:57:20.003 --> 00:57:23.873 FROM THIS POINT. SO I APOLOGIZE. 00:57:23.940 --> 00:57:25.108 I'M GOING TO HAVE TO HAND IT 00:57:25.175 --> 00:57:29.112 OVER TO YOU. ALEX IS COMING 00:57:29.179 --> 00:57:33.716 OVER. YES. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I 00:57:33.783 --> 00:57:34.951 HAVE TO GO TAKE CARE OF A 00:57:35.018 --> 00:57:36.019 MATTER AND HOPEFULLY I'LL BE 00:57:36.085 --> 00:57:37.120 RIGHT BACK. BUT AGAIN, I 00:57:37.187 --> 00:57:39.789 APPRECIATE YOU. MY COLLEAGUE 00:57:39.856 --> 00:57:41.090 SENATOR OTOBO WILL CONTINUE 00:57:41.157 --> 00:57:44.494 WITH THIS MATTER. THANK YOU. 00:57:44.561 --> 00:57:48.131 I'M IN LUCK. GOOD MORNING. I'M 00:57:48.198 --> 00:57:49.966 SENATOR BOGAN. I'LL JUST BE 00:57:50.033 --> 00:57:51.501 TAKING CARE JUST WHILE, SENATOR, 00:57:51.568 --> 00:57:55.305 OUR CHAIR RUBIO WILL BE OUT. I 00:57:55.371 --> 00:57:57.273 WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE NOW 00:57:57.340 --> 00:58:03.179 WITH. LET'S SEE WITH OUR SECOND 00:58:03.246 --> 00:58:04.981 PRESENTER, MR. JOHNNY HERNANDEZ, 00:58:05.048 --> 00:58:07.650 VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE U OF SAN 00:58:07.717 --> 00:58:11.354 MANUEL NATION. THANK YOU. WELL, 00:58:11.421 --> 00:58:13.056 GOOD MORNING, AND FOR 00:58:13.122 --> 00:58:14.324 DISCLOSURE FOR THE PUBLIC. THIS 00:58:14.390 --> 00:58:17.760 IS MY TRIBE IN SENATE DISTRICT 00:58:17.827 --> 00:58:20.697 23 BEFORE REDISTRICTING 24. SO, 00:58:20.763 --> 00:58:22.599 YES, THESE ARE PERSONAL FRIENDS 00:58:22.665 --> 00:58:27.070 OF MINE. GOOD MORNING, VICE 00:58:27.136 --> 00:58:29.205 CHAIR AND HONORABLE COMMITTEE 00:58:29.272 --> 00:58:30.740 MEMBERS. THANK YOU FOR THE 00:58:30.807 --> 00:58:33.042 OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE COMMENTS 00:58:33.109 --> 00:58:34.043 REGARDING THE TRIBAL STATE 00:58:34.110 --> 00:58:36.279 COMPACT AMENDMENT THAT THE 00:58:36.346 --> 00:58:37.413 SAMUEL NATION HAS RECENTLY 00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:38.815 AGREED WITH GOVERNOR GAVIN 00:58:38.882 --> 00:58:40.650 NEWSOM. MY NAME IS JOHNNY 00:58:40.717 --> 00:58:41.684 HERNANDEZ, VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE 00:58:41.751 --> 00:58:44.487 THOMAS SAMUEL NATION, AND I 00:58:44.554 --> 00:58:45.021 RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR YOUR 00:58:45.088 --> 00:58:48.124 SUPPORT IN AB 1579 WHEN IT 00:58:48.191 --> 00:58:49.392 REACHES THE SENATE FLOOR. OUR 00:58:49.459 --> 00:58:51.127 TRIBE, FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 00:58:51.194 --> 00:58:53.062 SAMUEL BAND OF MISSION INDIANS, 00:58:53.129 --> 00:58:54.063 RECLAIMED OUR ANCESTRAL NAME TO 00:58:54.130 --> 00:58:57.200 THE NATION. OUR RESERVATION WAS 00:58:57.267 --> 00:59:00.203 ESTABLISHED IN 1891 ON JUST 640 00:59:00.270 --> 00:59:01.704 ACRES IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE 00:59:01.771 --> 00:59:03.673 SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS. 00:59:03.740 --> 00:59:04.674 THROUGH OUR. THROUGH OUR 00:59:04.741 --> 00:59:05.942 ANCESTRAL TERRITORY EXPANDS 00:59:06.009 --> 00:59:08.411 MORE THAN 7.4 MILLION ACRES 00:59:08.478 --> 00:59:10.213 THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 00:59:10.280 --> 00:59:11.414 THIS YEAR MARKS 40 YEARS SINCE 00:59:11.481 --> 00:59:13.016 WE'VE OPENED OUR TRIBAL BINGO 00:59:13.082 --> 00:59:15.852 HALL IN 1986, A MILESTONE MADE 00:59:15.919 --> 00:59:17.487 POSSIBLE BY THE VISION AND 00:59:17.553 --> 00:59:18.688 DETERMINATION OF OUR TRIBAL 00:59:18.755 --> 00:59:21.090 LEADERS WHO SOUGHT ECONOMIC 00:59:21.157 --> 00:59:22.191 SELF-SUFFICIENCY FOR FUTURE 00:59:22.258 --> 00:59:23.793 GENERATIONS AND TO PROVIDE 00:59:23.860 --> 00:59:25.495 CRITICAL SERVICE TO OUR TRIBAL 00:59:25.561 --> 00:59:26.796 CITIZENS. CALIFORNIA VOTERS 00:59:26.863 --> 00:59:27.830 PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN 00:59:27.897 --> 00:59:29.999 THAT JOURNEY THROUGH PROP FIVE 00:59:30.066 --> 00:59:31.768 AND LATER, PROP ONE. Ã 00:59:31.834 --> 00:59:32.969 CALIFORNIANS AFFIRMED THAT 00:59:33.036 --> 00:59:34.704 TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS SHOULD HAVE 00:59:34.771 --> 00:59:36.539 THE OPPORTUNITY TO TO CONDUCT 00:59:36.606 --> 00:59:38.074 GAMING ON TRIBAL LANDS AS A 00:59:38.141 --> 00:59:39.676 MEANS OF SUPPORTING 00:59:39.742 --> 00:59:41.311 SELF-RELIANCE, CREATING JOBS, 00:59:41.377 --> 00:59:42.378 AND FUNDING ESSENTIAL 00:59:42.445 --> 00:59:43.980 GOVERNMENT SERVICES. TODAY, 00:59:44.047 --> 00:59:45.648 TRIBAL GAMING IN CALIFORNIA IS 00:59:45.715 --> 00:59:47.417 AMONG THE MOST HIGHLY REGULATED 00:59:47.483 --> 00:59:50.053 FORMS OF GAMING IN THE NATION. 00:59:50.119 --> 00:59:51.754 TRIBAL OPERATIONS ARE REGULATED 00:59:51.821 --> 00:59:53.556 THROUGH STATE, TRIBAL, AND 00:59:53.623 --> 00:59:55.291 FEDERAL OVERSIGHT, INCLUDING 00:59:55.358 --> 00:59:56.793 TRIBAL STATE COMPACTS, THE 00:59:56.859 --> 00:59:58.494 INDIAN GAMING REGULATORY ACT, 00:59:58.561 --> 01:00:00.930 AND REVEALED BY THE NATIONAL 01:00:00.997 --> 01:00:02.565 INDIAN GAMING COMMISSION. 01:00:02.632 --> 01:00:03.700 YOU'LL HAVE YOUR. THOMAS SAMUEL 01:00:03.766 --> 01:00:05.568 NATION HAS BEEN PROVEN TO BE A 01:00:05.635 --> 01:00:06.569 RESPONSIBLE STEWARD IN THIS 01:00:06.636 --> 01:00:07.503 INDUSTRY. WE MAINTAIN 01:00:07.570 --> 01:00:08.604 COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMS THAT 01:00:08.671 --> 01:00:10.340 PROMOTE RESPONSIBLE GAMING, 01:00:10.406 --> 01:00:12.141 HELP PREVENT PROBLEM GAMBLING, 01:00:12.208 --> 01:00:13.977 AND PROVIDE SUPPORT AND 01:00:14.043 --> 01:00:15.411 RESOURCES FOR THOSE WHO NEED 01:00:15.478 --> 01:00:17.246 ASSISTANCE. OUR COMMITMENT IS 01:00:17.313 --> 01:00:18.982 NOT SIMPLY TO OPERATE 01:00:19.048 --> 01:00:21.584 SUCCESSFULLY, BUT TO OPERATE 01:00:21.651 --> 01:00:23.720 RESPONSIBLY, RESPONSIBLE, 01:00:23.786 --> 01:00:26.189 RESPONSIBLY AND WITH INTEGRITY 01:00:26.255 --> 01:00:27.690 AND RECOGNITION OF THESE 01:00:27.757 --> 01:00:28.758 EFFORTS. WE ARE RECENTLY 01:00:28.825 --> 01:00:30.226 HONORED BY THE CALIFORNIA 01:00:30.293 --> 01:00:31.694 COUNCIL OF PROBLEM GAMBLING FOR 01:00:31.761 --> 01:00:34.497 THE 19TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR AS A 01:00:34.564 --> 01:00:35.598 RESPONSIBLE GAMING 01:00:35.665 --> 01:00:37.367 ESTABLISHMENT, THE SUCCESS OF 01:00:37.433 --> 01:00:38.501 TRIBAL GOVERNMENT GAMING HAS 01:00:38.568 --> 01:00:39.969 ALLOWED OUR NATION TO BECOME A 01:00:40.036 --> 01:00:41.704 STRONG PARTNER WITH CALIFORNIA, 01:00:41.771 --> 01:00:43.906 AS WELL AS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, 01:00:43.973 --> 01:00:45.274 BUSINESSES, NONPROFIT 01:00:45.341 --> 01:00:46.809 ORGANIZATION, AND LABOR. WE 01:00:46.876 --> 01:00:49.746 HAVE CONTRIBUTED NEARLY $500 01:00:49.812 --> 01:00:51.447 MILLION IN PHILANTHROPY 01:00:51.514 --> 01:00:52.982 PHILANTHROPIC GRANTS AS ONE OF 01:00:53.049 --> 01:00:54.550 THE REGION'S LARGEST EMPLOYERS, 01:00:54.617 --> 01:00:56.819 WITH NEARLY 8000 TEAM MEMBERS, 01:00:56.886 --> 01:00:59.789 AND PROVIDE MORE THAN 600 627 01:00:59.856 --> 01:01:02.191 MILLION IN ANNUAL COMPENSATION. 01:01:02.258 --> 01:01:03.793 OUR AMENDED COMPACT REFLECTS 01:01:03.860 --> 01:01:05.094 THE SAME COMMITMENT TO 01:01:05.161 --> 01:01:06.496 PARTNERSHIP. IT SUPPORTS LONG 01:01:06.562 --> 01:01:07.964 TERM PLANNING AND SELF-RELIANCE 01:01:08.031 --> 01:01:09.799 FOR OUR NATION, PROVIDES 01:01:09.866 --> 01:01:11.200 ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR LIMITED 01:01:11.267 --> 01:01:12.769 AND NON GAMING TRIBES THROUGH 01:01:12.835 --> 01:01:14.437 THE REVENUE SHARING TRUST FUND, 01:01:14.504 --> 01:01:15.905 AND CREATES SIGNIFICANT 01:01:15.972 --> 01:01:17.306 BENEFITS FOR CALIFORNIA 01:01:17.373 --> 01:01:18.841 COMMUNITIES. TRIBAL GAMING, 01:01:18.908 --> 01:01:20.543 WHEN REGULATED WITH INTEGRITY 01:01:20.610 --> 01:01:22.678 AND GUIDED BY TRIBAL VALUES, 01:01:22.745 --> 01:01:23.813 STRENGTHENS TRIBAL GOVERNMENT, 01:01:23.880 --> 01:01:25.948 SUPPORT LOCAL ECONOMIES AND 01:01:26.015 --> 01:01:27.784 CREATES LASTING BENEFITS FOR 01:01:27.850 --> 01:01:28.851 COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT 01:01:28.918 --> 01:01:30.019 CALIFORNIA. AND THANK YOU FOR 01:01:30.086 --> 01:01:31.387 THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE 01:01:31.454 --> 01:01:33.156 BEFORE YOU TODAY AND 01:01:33.222 --> 01:01:34.157 RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR YOUR 01:01:34.223 --> 01:01:38.561 SUPPORT IN AB 1579. THANK YOU. 01:01:38.628 --> 01:01:42.899 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU 01:01:42.965 --> 01:01:45.068 VERY MUCH. VICE CHAIRMAN 01:01:45.134 --> 01:01:46.436 HERNANDEZ WILL NOW CONTINUE 01:01:46.502 --> 01:01:49.338 WITH OUR THIRD WITNESS, AND 01:01:49.405 --> 01:01:54.043 THAT WOULD BE OUR VERY OWN 01:01:54.110 --> 01:01:55.745 SUPERVISOR, CHAIRWOMAN OF THE 01:01:55.812 --> 01:01:57.280 SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY COUNTY 01:01:57.346 --> 01:01:59.482 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. DON RAO, 01:01:59.549 --> 01:02:00.750 WELCOME. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 01:02:00.817 --> 01:02:03.052 AND GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. 01:02:03.119 --> 01:02:04.954 VICE CHAIRWOMAN AND MEMBERS OF 01:02:05.021 --> 01:02:06.622 THE COMMITTEE. I APPRECIATE THE 01:02:06.689 --> 01:02:07.790 OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE TODAY TO 01:02:07.857 --> 01:02:09.192 SPEAK ON BEHALF OF SAN 01:02:09.258 --> 01:02:10.660 BERNARDINO COUNTY IN SUPPORT OF 01:02:10.726 --> 01:02:12.395 YOU, JAVIER TOM OF SAN MANUEL 01:02:12.462 --> 01:02:14.564 NATION AND THEIR TRIBAL STATE 01:02:14.630 --> 01:02:16.332 COMPACT AGREEMENT. MY NAME IS 01:02:16.399 --> 01:02:17.934 DON RAO, AND I AM CURRENTLY THE 01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:19.335 CHAIRWOMAN OF THE BOARD OF 01:02:19.402 --> 01:02:20.436 SUPERVISORS AND ALSO THE THIRD 01:02:20.503 --> 01:02:22.105 DISTRICT SUPERVISOR, WHICH IS 01:02:22.171 --> 01:02:25.408 HOME TO YOU, TOM AND THE NATION. 01:02:25.475 --> 01:02:26.843 I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU MY 01:02:26.909 --> 01:02:28.611 MY PERSONAL VIEWPOINT OF THE 01:02:28.678 --> 01:02:30.413 COMPACT. PRIOR TO BECOMING A 01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:31.214 SUPERVISOR, I REALLY JUST 01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:32.548 THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT GAMING, 01:02:32.615 --> 01:02:34.016 AND I DIDN'T HAVE MUCH OF AN 01:02:34.083 --> 01:02:35.451 AWARENESS OF HOW IT INTERACTED 01:02:35.518 --> 01:02:37.086 WITH THE PEOPLE. AND WHILE IT 01:02:37.153 --> 01:02:38.521 IS ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT AND AS 01:02:38.588 --> 01:02:40.156 YOU HEARD VICE CHAIR HERNANDEZ 01:02:40.223 --> 01:02:42.558 TALK ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF JOBS 01:02:42.625 --> 01:02:44.093 AND EMPLOYMENT IT BRINGS TO OUR 01:02:44.160 --> 01:02:45.528 COUNTY, WHICH IS TREMENDOUS 01:02:45.595 --> 01:02:46.696 BECAUSE ENTERTAINMENT IS 01:02:46.762 --> 01:02:48.064 SOMETHING THAT SAN BERNARDINO 01:02:48.131 --> 01:02:49.532 COUNTY WELCOMES AND IS A PART 01:02:49.599 --> 01:02:50.967 OF OUR WORKFORCE, AND IT 01:02:51.033 --> 01:02:51.667 PROVIDES QUALITY OF LIFE FOR 01:02:51.734 --> 01:02:53.836 OUR RESIDENTS. IT'S ALSO ABOUT 01:02:53.903 --> 01:02:55.972 OTHER THINGS. IT'S ABOUT TRIBAL 01:02:56.038 --> 01:02:57.406 SUSTAINMENT, AND IT IS ABOUT 01:02:57.473 --> 01:02:58.841 PHILANTHROPIC EFFORTS AND HOW 01:02:58.908 --> 01:03:01.344 THEY INTERPLAY WITH OUR COUNTY. 01:03:01.410 --> 01:03:02.845 I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND UNTIL I 01:03:02.912 --> 01:03:04.213 BECAME A SUPERVISOR THE IMPACT 01:03:04.280 --> 01:03:06.048 THAT THAT HAD AND WHERE WE 01:03:06.115 --> 01:03:07.984 BECAME PARTNERS IN ABLE BEING 01:03:08.050 --> 01:03:10.019 ABLE TO SERVE OUR RESIDENTS IN 01:03:10.086 --> 01:03:11.687 A MUCH GREATER DEPTH BECAUSE OF 01:03:11.754 --> 01:03:13.322 THEIR PHILANTHROPIC EFFORTS. 01:03:13.389 --> 01:03:14.657 AND IT SPANS ALL DIFFERENT 01:03:14.724 --> 01:03:15.858 KINDS, WHETHER IT'S HEALTH CARE 01:03:15.925 --> 01:03:18.294 IN THE MATERNAL FETAL WARD OVER 01:03:18.361 --> 01:03:21.531 IN LOMA LINDA AND ALL THINGS 01:03:21.597 --> 01:03:22.765 ENVIRONMENT THAT ARE IMPORTANT 01:03:22.832 --> 01:03:24.200 TO OUR COUNTY. THEY HAVE BEEN 01:03:24.267 --> 01:03:25.868 THERE AS A GREAT PARTNER FOR US, 01:03:25.935 --> 01:03:27.403 AND THIS COMPACT WILL ENABLE 01:03:27.470 --> 01:03:29.605 THAT TO CONTINUE. I'D ALSO LIKE 01:03:29.672 --> 01:03:31.307 TO SHARE THAT FOR OUR OTHER 01:03:31.374 --> 01:03:32.708 TRIBAL PARTNERS THROUGHOUT THE 01:03:32.775 --> 01:03:34.143 STATE, THE THE REVENUE SHARING 01:03:34.210 --> 01:03:35.945 TRUST FUND, WITH THE AMOUNT 01:03:36.012 --> 01:03:37.747 THAT THEY CONTRIBUTE INTO THAT 01:03:37.813 --> 01:03:39.549 REALLY HELPS THOSE NON-GAMING 01:03:39.615 --> 01:03:41.651 TRIBAL ENTITIES THROUGHOUT THE 01:03:41.717 --> 01:03:43.452 STATE. AND THEN TO SPEAK TO 01:03:43.519 --> 01:03:44.887 SENATOR RICHARDSON AND WHAT YOU 01:03:44.954 --> 01:03:47.456 HAD TO SAY EARLIER ABOUT THE 01:03:47.523 --> 01:03:48.224 INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENTS 01:03:48.291 --> 01:03:50.026 THAT WE HAVE WITH OUR PARTNERS 01:03:50.092 --> 01:03:52.161 IN THE Â, SPECIFICALLY IN SAN 01:03:52.228 --> 01:03:53.462 BERNARDINO COUNTY, WHETHER IT'S 01:03:53.529 --> 01:03:54.830 OUR DISTRICT ATTORNEY THAT THEY 01:03:54.897 --> 01:03:56.432 HAVE AN AGREEMENT WITH OR OUR 01:03:56.499 --> 01:03:57.900 SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. AND 01:03:57.967 --> 01:03:59.735 NOTABLY, ALSO FIRE. WE HAD THE 01:03:59.802 --> 01:04:02.271 LINE FIRE NOT TOO LONG AGO. AND 01:04:02.338 --> 01:04:04.373 YOU HAVE TOM, THEIR FIRE 01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:05.374 DEPARTMENT TRAINS WITH OUR 01:04:05.441 --> 01:04:06.609 COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT. THEY 01:04:06.676 --> 01:04:08.344 HAVE PROGRAMS IN SUPPORT WHERE 01:04:08.411 --> 01:04:10.846 THEY GO IN TANDEM. AND SO WE'RE 01:04:10.913 --> 01:04:12.281 ALMOST AN EXTENSION OF ONE 01:04:12.348 --> 01:04:13.349 ANOTHER. AND SO THROUGH THE 01:04:13.416 --> 01:04:14.417 DISTRICT ATTORNEY, THE SHERIFF 01:04:14.483 --> 01:04:16.552 AND THE FIRE, WE ARE ONE 01:04:16.619 --> 01:04:18.054 BASICALLY IN THE COUNTY, AND WE 01:04:18.120 --> 01:04:19.488 VALUE THAT COOPERATIVE 01:04:19.555 --> 01:04:20.656 PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAVE. AND 01:04:20.723 --> 01:04:22.725 WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SAVE 01:04:22.792 --> 01:04:24.193 RESERVATION LANDS AND OUR OWN 01:04:24.260 --> 01:04:25.494 COMMUNITY MEMBERS BECAUSE OF 01:04:25.561 --> 01:04:27.763 THE AGREEMENT. SO WITH ALL OF 01:04:27.830 --> 01:04:29.599 THOSE REASONS, I WOULD HIGHLY 01:04:29.665 --> 01:04:30.700 ENCOURAGE SUPPORT WHEN THIS 01:04:30.766 --> 01:04:32.802 HITS THE FLOOR OF AB 1579. 01:04:32.868 --> 01:04:34.637 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU 01:04:34.704 --> 01:04:37.306 VERY MUCH, SUPERVISOR. WE'RE 01:04:37.373 --> 01:04:38.941 NOW GOING TO CONTINUE WITH ANY 01:04:39.008 --> 01:04:40.776 PUBLIC COMMENT THAT WE MAY HAVE 01:04:40.843 --> 01:04:42.912 HERE. PLEASE APPROACH THE 01:04:42.979 --> 01:04:44.380 MICROPHONE, STATE YOUR NAME AND 01:04:44.447 --> 01:04:45.781 YOUR ORGANIZATION AND YOUR 01:04:45.848 --> 01:04:51.754 SUPPORT. MADAM CHAIR MEMBERS, 01:04:51.821 --> 01:04:53.022 JOE CREWS, ON BEHALF OF THE 01:04:53.089 --> 01:04:54.457 CALIFORNIA STATE COUNCIL OF 01:04:54.523 --> 01:04:55.858 LABORERS, I JUST WANT TO SPEAK 01:04:55.925 --> 01:04:57.627 TO THE INCREDIBLE PARTNERSHIP 01:04:57.693 --> 01:05:00.930 THAT WE HAVE WITH THE TRIBE AND 01:05:00.997 --> 01:05:03.366 WHAT THEY DO LOCALLY AS FAR AS 01:05:03.432 --> 01:05:04.100 CREATING OPPORTUNITIES, 01:05:04.166 --> 01:05:06.269 ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES AND JOB 01:05:06.335 --> 01:05:08.838 CREATION HAS BEEN PARAMOUNT IN 01:05:08.904 --> 01:05:10.339 MOVING PEOPLE FROM THE INTO THE 01:05:10.406 --> 01:05:12.041 MIDDLE CLASS IN SAN BERNARDINO. 01:05:12.108 --> 01:05:13.476 IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE KEEP WE 01:05:13.542 --> 01:05:14.577 KEEP CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR 01:05:14.644 --> 01:05:15.978 PEOPLE TO LIVE WHERE THEY WORK. 01:05:16.045 --> 01:05:17.613 AND THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF 01:05:17.680 --> 01:05:19.282 THAT PARTNERSHIP. SO WE 01:05:19.348 --> 01:05:19.982 RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR AN AYE 01:05:20.049 --> 01:05:21.751 VOTE WHEN IT COMES BEFORE YOU. 01:05:21.817 --> 01:05:26.389 THANK YOU. MADAM CHAIR AND 01:05:26.455 --> 01:05:28.124 MEMBERS. MY NAME IS DYLAN 01:05:28.190 --> 01:05:29.191 LISOWSKI. I'M WITH THE SAN 01:05:29.258 --> 01:05:30.126 BERNARDINO COUNTY SHERIFF'S 01:05:30.192 --> 01:05:31.193 DEPARTMENT. WE'RE IN SUPPORT OF 01:05:31.260 --> 01:05:33.329 THE AMENDED COMPACT WITH THE 01:05:33.396 --> 01:05:36.165 SAN MANUEL NATION AND TO THE TO 01:05:36.232 --> 01:05:37.633 SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT 01:05:37.700 --> 01:05:39.468 CHAIRWOMAN ROWE MADE IN REGARDS 01:05:39.535 --> 01:05:40.870 TO THE COLLABORATION THAT WE 01:05:40.936 --> 01:05:42.638 HAVE WITH THE TRIBE. WE ALSO 01:05:42.705 --> 01:05:43.739 PROVIDE THE CONTRACT, LAW 01:05:43.806 --> 01:05:44.740 ENFORCEMENT SERVICES AND WORK 01:05:44.807 --> 01:05:45.875 WITH OUR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC 01:05:45.941 --> 01:05:49.512 SAFETY, YOU KNOW, EVERY DAY. SO 01:05:49.578 --> 01:05:50.980 WE'RE VERY MUCH APPRECIATIVE OF 01:05:51.047 --> 01:05:52.748 YOUR GUYS'S CONSIDERATION AND 01:05:52.815 --> 01:05:56.352 URGE YOUR VOTE. THANK YOU. 01:05:56.419 --> 01:05:58.421 THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 01:05:58.487 --> 01:06:00.990 OUR WITNESSES SEEING NO OTHER 01:06:01.057 --> 01:06:02.191 PUBLIC COMMENT, WE'RE GOING TO 01:06:02.258 --> 01:06:04.226 GO AHEAD. AND WOULD YOU LIKE TO 01:06:04.293 --> 01:06:05.995 CLOSE OR MAKE ANY FINAL 01:06:06.062 --> 01:06:07.930 STATEMENTS. ARE YOU GOOD? OKAY. 01:06:07.997 --> 01:06:09.632 SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO Þ 01:06:09.699 --> 01:06:10.733 QUESTIONS. WE'LL BRING IT BACK 01:06:10.800 --> 01:06:11.934 TO THE DÍAS. ANY QUESTIONS? 01:06:12.001 --> 01:06:13.969 COMMENTS? YES. MR. VICE 01:06:14.036 --> 01:06:14.670 CHAIRMAN, COULD YOU TALK A 01:06:14.737 --> 01:06:16.472 LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR TEAM 01:06:16.539 --> 01:06:17.873 MEMBERS? YOU MENTIONED HOW MANY 01:06:17.940 --> 01:06:20.409 YOU HAVE. WHEN I HAVE BEEN 01:06:20.476 --> 01:06:22.611 THERE, I OFTENTIMES ASK PEOPLE, 01:06:22.678 --> 01:06:24.480 HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HERE? 01:06:24.547 --> 01:06:25.815 AND WHETHER IT'S FROM THE 01:06:25.881 --> 01:06:27.316 PERSON WHO'S CLEANING THE ROOM 01:06:27.383 --> 01:06:29.485 OR THE PERSON WHO'S DOING, YOU 01:06:29.552 --> 01:06:31.954 KNOW, LOBSTER NIGHT, YOU KNOW, 01:06:32.021 --> 01:06:34.123 THEY'RE ALL SAYING 30 YEARS, 20 01:06:34.190 --> 01:06:37.360 YEARS, SEVEN YEARS. THEY TALK 01:06:37.426 --> 01:06:39.528 ABOUT THERE'S A DAY THAT YOU 01:06:39.595 --> 01:06:40.730 HAVE WITH YOUR TEAM MEMBERS OF 01:06:40.796 --> 01:06:43.132 GOING TO UNIVERSAL STUDIOS, 01:06:43.199 --> 01:06:44.567 WHERE YOU'RE PULLING THE PEOPLE 01:06:44.633 --> 01:06:46.736 TOGETHER. WHEN I WAS SPEAKING 01:06:46.802 --> 01:06:48.571 EARLIER, MR. LEE, WHAT I WAS 01:06:48.637 --> 01:06:50.706 REALLY TRYING TO CONVEY IS I 01:06:50.773 --> 01:06:52.508 THINK WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND 01:06:52.575 --> 01:06:53.943 THAT THE TRIBAL NATIONS HAVE 01:06:54.009 --> 01:06:56.445 EVOLVED QUITE WELL, AND THEY'RE 01:06:56.512 --> 01:06:58.647 DOING THINGS THAT EVEN MANY OF 01:06:58.714 --> 01:07:00.449 THE COMPANIES, YOU KNOW, 01:07:00.516 --> 01:07:01.851 THROUGHOUT ALL OF OUR DISTRICTS 01:07:01.917 --> 01:07:03.953 ARE NOT DOING. SO IF YOU COULD 01:07:04.019 --> 01:07:05.888 JUST SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 01:07:05.955 --> 01:07:08.023 YOUR TEAM MEMBERS AND HOW LONG 01:07:08.090 --> 01:07:09.759 SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN THERE, 01:07:09.825 --> 01:07:10.926 WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS 01:07:10.993 --> 01:07:12.528 THAT YOU'RE DOING? BECAUSE I 01:07:12.595 --> 01:07:13.929 THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE 01:07:13.996 --> 01:07:16.832 PUBLIC REALLY UNDERSTANDS, YOU 01:07:16.899 --> 01:07:19.468 KNOW, THAT THIS IS NOT, YOU 01:07:19.535 --> 01:07:21.237 KNOW, THIS IS NOT A MOM AND POP, 01:07:21.303 --> 01:07:22.805 YOU KNOW, BUSINESS KIND OF. I 01:07:22.872 --> 01:07:26.609 MEAN, IT'S AN EFFECTIVELY RUN 01:07:26.675 --> 01:07:28.411 BUSINESS THAT I WAS SO GLAD TO 01:07:28.477 --> 01:07:29.812 HEAR THE SUPERVISOR, THE 01:07:29.879 --> 01:07:31.580 COMMENTS FOR PEOPLE TO 01:07:31.647 --> 01:07:33.816 UNDERSTAND THE VALUE THAT IS 01:07:33.883 --> 01:07:35.217 BROUGHT TO THE STATE OF 01:07:35.284 --> 01:07:35.885 CALIFORNIA. SO IF YOU COULD 01:07:35.951 --> 01:07:38.821 JUST EXPAND. VICE CHAIRMAN. YES. 01:07:38.888 --> 01:07:40.256 YEAH. THANK YOU FOR THE 01:07:40.322 --> 01:07:42.425 QUESTION. YEAH. WE HAVE 8000 01:07:42.491 --> 01:07:45.060 EMPLOYEES AND WE DO MANY THINGS 01:07:45.127 --> 01:07:46.729 FOR THEM. ACTUALLY, BEFORE WE 01:07:46.796 --> 01:07:47.797 CONTINUE ON, WE ACTUALLY 01:07:47.863 --> 01:07:49.064 RECENTLY CELEBRATED, WE HAVE 01:07:49.131 --> 01:07:50.566 THREE EMPLOYEES THAT HAVE BEEN 01:07:50.633 --> 01:07:51.901 WITH US FOR 40 YEARS. SO FROM 01:07:51.967 --> 01:07:53.736 THE BEGINNING OF GAMING AND 01:07:53.803 --> 01:07:54.804 THEY'RE STILL WITH US TOO, 01:07:54.870 --> 01:07:55.871 THEY'RE NOT PLANNING ON 01:07:55.938 --> 01:07:56.939 RETIRING MAYBE THE NEXT COUPLE 01:07:57.006 --> 01:08:00.075 OF YEARS. BUT YEAH, THINGS LIKE 01:08:00.142 --> 01:08:02.578 WE REALLY DO VIEW THE TEAM 01:08:02.645 --> 01:08:04.413 MEMBERS AS EXTENDED PART OF OUR 01:08:04.480 --> 01:08:06.182 FAMILY. WE DO THINGS LIKE WE 01:08:06.248 --> 01:08:07.316 HAVE A DEPENDENT SCHOLARSHIP 01:08:07.383 --> 01:08:09.118 THAT WE OFFER THEM. SO ANY OF 01:08:09.185 --> 01:08:10.519 OUR TEAM MEMBERS THAT HAVE ANY 01:08:10.586 --> 01:08:11.554 DEPENDENTS AND WE DO 01:08:11.620 --> 01:08:13.756 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THEM. I THINK 01:08:13.823 --> 01:08:15.591 YOU HAD REFERENCED OUR TEAM 01:08:15.658 --> 01:08:17.426 GATHERING. WE PROVIDE TWO DATES 01:08:17.493 --> 01:08:18.794 FOR OUR TEAM MEMBERS TO GO TO 01:08:18.861 --> 01:08:20.596 UNIVERSAL WITH THEIR DEPENDENTS, 01:08:20.663 --> 01:08:22.031 AND WE ACTUALLY WILL SHUT DOWN 01:08:22.097 --> 01:08:23.933 THE PARK TOWARDS THE END OF THE 01:08:23.999 --> 01:08:25.100 NIGHT SO THEY COULD HAVE THAT 01:08:25.167 --> 01:08:26.936 PRIVATE TIME. AND ALSO WITH ALL 01:08:27.002 --> 01:08:28.137 THE TEAM MEMBERS GATHER. AND, 01:08:28.204 --> 01:08:29.605 YOU KNOW, WE TRULY DO CARE 01:08:29.672 --> 01:08:31.407 DURING COVID, WE KEPT ALL OF 01:08:31.474 --> 01:08:32.875 OUR EMPLOYEES ON AND WE PAID 01:08:32.942 --> 01:08:34.510 THEM BECAUSE THAT'S, YOU KNOW, 01:08:34.577 --> 01:08:35.611 WE UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, THIS, 01:08:35.678 --> 01:08:37.046 THIS IS PEOPLE'S LIVELIHOODS. 01:08:37.112 --> 01:08:39.081 SO WE WANT PEOPLE TO, TO GROW 01:08:39.148 --> 01:08:40.983 WITH US AND WE WANT PEOPLE TO 01:08:41.050 --> 01:08:42.518 CONTINUE WITH US. YES. SO WE DO 01:08:42.585 --> 01:08:44.320 AS MUCH AS WE POSSIBLY CAN TO 01:08:44.386 --> 01:08:46.188 TAKE CARE OF OUR TEAM MEMBERS. 01:08:46.255 --> 01:08:49.058 THANK YOU. AND I'VE JUST BEEN 01:08:49.125 --> 01:08:50.493 ALERTED THAT WE DO HAVE ONE 01:08:50.559 --> 01:08:53.395 MORE PUBLIC COMMENT, MADAM 01:08:53.462 --> 01:08:54.897 CHAIR. APOLOGIES. LUIS SANCHEZ 01:08:54.964 --> 01:08:56.365 HERE ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF 01:08:56.432 --> 01:08:57.433 SAN BERNARDINO AND STRONG 01:08:57.500 --> 01:08:59.168 SUPPORT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU 01:08:59.235 --> 01:09:00.903 VERY MUCH. AND I JUST WANT TO 01:09:00.970 --> 01:09:02.671 JUST MAKE FINAL COMMENTS THAT 01:09:02.738 --> 01:09:04.840 THE TRIBE HAS BEEN AN AMAZING 01:09:04.907 --> 01:09:09.211 PARTNER, NOT JUST TO JUST 01:09:09.278 --> 01:09:10.646 LOCALLY WITHIN THE IMMEDIATE 01:09:10.713 --> 01:09:12.815 AREA, BUT REALLY REGIONALLY. 01:09:12.882 --> 01:09:14.250 AND I'M VERY, VERY GRATEFUL AND 01:09:14.316 --> 01:09:16.352 BLESSED TO HAVE YOU FOLKS IN 01:09:16.418 --> 01:09:19.722 OUR AREA AND VERY THANKFUL FOR 01:09:19.788 --> 01:09:21.457 ALL OF THE PHILANTHROPIC WORK 01:09:21.524 --> 01:09:22.558 THAT YOU FOLKS ARE DOING WITHIN 01:09:22.625 --> 01:09:24.326 THE AREA. MANY OF OUR 01:09:24.393 --> 01:09:25.761 NONPROFITS WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO 01:09:25.828 --> 01:09:27.329 SURVIVE IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOUR 01:09:27.396 --> 01:09:28.230 ASSISTANCE, INCLUDING OUR 01:09:28.297 --> 01:09:30.099 CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AS WELL AS 01:09:30.165 --> 01:09:32.635 OUR PUBLIC SERVICE NONPROFITS 01:09:32.701 --> 01:09:34.236 IN OUR AREA. SO THANK YOU VERY 01:09:34.303 --> 01:09:35.471 MUCH. I WANT TO PUBLICLY JUST 01:09:35.538 --> 01:09:38.307 ACKNOWLEDGE THE GREAT WORK AND 01:09:38.374 --> 01:09:40.142 GENEROSITY OF THE TRIBE TO OUR 01:09:40.209 --> 01:09:43.379 COMMUNITIES. THANK YOU. SO 01:09:43.445 --> 01:09:44.780 WE'LL NOW FORMALLY CLOSE THIS 01:09:44.847 --> 01:09:46.682 SESSION AND GO ON TO THE NEXT 01:09:46.749 --> 01:09:48.250 ONE. WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE 01:09:48.317 --> 01:09:50.920 WITH ITEM NUMBER SIX. THIS WILL 01:09:50.986 --> 01:09:52.421 BE THE TRIBAL STATE GAMING 01:09:52.488 --> 01:09:53.856 COMPACT BETWEEN THE STATE OF 01:09:53.923 --> 01:09:55.624 CALIFORNIA AND THE YUROK TRIBE 01:09:55.691 --> 01:09:58.127 OF THE YUROK RESERVATION IN 01:09:58.193 --> 01:10:08.938 CALIFORNIA. OKAY. WE'RE NOW WE 01:10:09.004 --> 01:10:11.807 WILL BE HAVING THREE TWO 01:10:11.874 --> 01:10:12.608 WITNESSES HERE. WE'RE GOING TO 01:10:12.675 --> 01:10:14.009 HAVE MATTHEW LEE, SENIOR 01:10:14.076 --> 01:10:15.411 ADVISOR FOR THE TRIBAL 01:10:15.477 --> 01:10:16.412 NEGOTIATIONS OFFICE OF THE 01:10:16.478 --> 01:10:18.247 GOVERNOR, GAVIN NEWSOM, AS WELL 01:10:18.314 --> 01:10:20.549 AS JOSEPH L JAMES, CHAIRMAN OF 01:10:20.616 --> 01:10:22.651 THE YUROK TRIBE OF THE YUROK 01:10:22.718 --> 01:10:23.719 RESERVATION, CALIFORNIA, AND HE 01:10:23.786 --> 01:10:25.554 WILL BE REMOTELY JOINING US 01:10:25.621 --> 01:10:26.722 TODAY. PLEASE PROCEED WHEN 01:10:26.789 --> 01:10:29.858 YOU'RE READY. THANK YOU VERY 01:10:29.925 --> 01:10:33.028 MUCH. THIS IS ANOTHER NEW 01:10:33.095 --> 01:10:35.264 TRIBAL STATE GAMING COMPACT TO 01:10:35.331 --> 01:10:37.199 REPLACE AN EXPIRING COMPACT 01:10:37.266 --> 01:10:41.370 FROM 1999, LIKE THE FORT MOJAVE 01:10:41.437 --> 01:10:43.906 COMPACT THAT WAS DESCRIBED TO 01:10:43.973 --> 01:10:45.341 THIS BODY EARLIER, IT IS 01:10:45.407 --> 01:10:46.442 RELATIVELY STRAIGHTFORWARD. IT 01:10:46.508 --> 01:10:48.143 IS CONSISTENT WITH OTHER RECENT 01:10:48.210 --> 01:10:49.445 TRIBAL STATE GAMING COMPACTS 01:10:49.511 --> 01:10:52.147 THAT THIS BODY HAS SEEN. IT IS 01:10:52.214 --> 01:10:55.017 A RELATIVELY SMALL GAMING 01:10:55.084 --> 01:10:57.252 COMPACT. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 01:10:57.319 --> 01:11:00.122 349 DEVICES ACROSS THREE 01:11:00.189 --> 01:11:03.325 FACILITIES. STANDARD TERMS 01:11:03.392 --> 01:11:04.460 REGARDING PAYMENT INTO THE 01:11:04.526 --> 01:11:06.261 SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION FUND TO 01:11:06.328 --> 01:11:08.030 DEFRAY THE STATE'S REGULATORY 01:11:08.097 --> 01:11:11.600 COSTS. STANDARD TERMS REGARDING 01:11:11.667 --> 01:11:13.769 SOME OF THE HEALTH AND SAFETY 01:11:13.836 --> 01:11:15.771 AND WATER QUALITY AND BUILDING 01:11:15.838 --> 01:11:17.706 CODE STANDARDS THAT WE WERE 01:11:17.773 --> 01:11:19.875 DISCUSSING EARLIER, STANDARD 01:11:19.942 --> 01:11:21.644 TERMS TO PROTECT WORKERS, 01:11:21.710 --> 01:11:23.145 INCLUDING STATE MINIMUM WAGE, 01:11:23.212 --> 01:11:25.347 OTHER STATE LAW PROTECTIONS 01:11:25.414 --> 01:11:27.082 THAT TRIBAL LABOR RELATIONS 01:11:27.149 --> 01:11:28.083 ORDINANCE THAT WE WERE 01:11:28.150 --> 01:11:29.585 DISCUSSING EARLIER. SO ALL IN 01:11:29.652 --> 01:11:31.820 ALL, VERY MUCH IN LINE WITH 01:11:31.887 --> 01:11:33.222 OTHER RECENT TRIBAL STATE 01:11:33.288 --> 01:11:35.958 GAMING COMPACTS THAT THIS BODY 01:11:36.025 --> 01:11:41.563 HAS SEEN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 01:11:41.630 --> 01:11:43.632 WE'LL NOW CONTINUE WITH MR. 01:11:43.699 --> 01:11:45.100 JOSEPH L JAMES, CHAIRMAN OF THE 01:11:45.167 --> 01:11:47.970 YUROK TRIBE OF THE RESERVATION, 01:11:48.037 --> 01:11:49.371 JOINING US REMOTELY. WELCOME, 01:11:49.438 --> 01:11:51.740 SIR. THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING, 01:11:51.807 --> 01:11:53.008 VICE CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE 01:11:53.075 --> 01:11:55.177 COMMITTEE. I AM JOSEPH JAMES, 01:11:55.244 --> 01:11:57.346 CHAIRMAN OF THE YUROK TRIBE. 01:11:57.413 --> 01:11:58.480 I'M HONORED TO BE HERE ON 01:11:58.547 --> 01:12:00.949 BEHALF OF THE TRIBE AND OUR 01:12:01.016 --> 01:12:02.051 PEOPLE, TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 01:12:02.117 --> 01:12:03.419 INFORMATION HEARING ON OUR NEW 01:12:03.485 --> 01:12:04.520 TRIBAL STATE GAMING CONTACT 01:12:04.586 --> 01:12:05.721 BETWEEN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 01:12:05.788 --> 01:12:07.489 AND TRIBE OF THE YUROK 01:12:07.556 --> 01:12:09.258 RESERVATION. I WANT TO 01:12:09.324 --> 01:12:10.626 ACKNOWLEDGE GOVERNOR NEWSOM, 01:12:10.693 --> 01:12:11.794 MATTHEW LEE, AND HIS TEAM FOR 01:12:11.860 --> 01:12:13.162 THEIR PROFESSIONALISM AND THEIR 01:12:13.228 --> 01:12:14.596 COMMITMENT THROUGHOUT THE 01:12:14.663 --> 01:12:16.365 NEGOTIATION PROCESS. THIS 01:12:16.432 --> 01:12:18.200 COMPACT, SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR, 01:12:18.267 --> 01:12:20.169 REFLECTS A POSITIVE GOVERNMENT 01:12:20.235 --> 01:12:21.637 TO GOVERNMENT EFFORT BETWEEN 01:12:21.704 --> 01:12:23.238 THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE 01:12:23.305 --> 01:12:25.474 TRIBE. THE YUROK TRIBE IS THE 01:12:25.541 --> 01:12:26.642 LARGEST TRIBE IN CALIFORNIA BY 01:12:26.709 --> 01:12:28.644 BOTH POPULATION AND LAND BASE. 01:12:28.711 --> 01:12:30.746 WE ARE FORTUNATE TO OCCUPY OUR 01:12:30.813 --> 01:12:32.214 ORIGINAL HOMELANDS ON THE 01:12:32.281 --> 01:12:33.682 PACIFIC COAST IN NORTHERN 01:12:33.749 --> 01:12:34.750 CALIFORNIA, INLAND ON THE 01:12:34.817 --> 01:12:36.719 KLAMATH RIVER, OUR HOMELANDS 01:12:36.785 --> 01:12:38.721 ARE REMOTE, RUGGED, 01:12:38.787 --> 01:12:40.556 BREATHTAKING AREA OF THE STATE. 01:12:40.622 --> 01:12:41.623 WE ARE DEEPLY COMMITTED TO 01:12:41.690 --> 01:12:43.125 THESE LANDS AND ENGAGE IN 01:12:43.192 --> 01:12:44.460 EXTENSIVE EFFORTS TO MANAGE OUR 01:12:44.526 --> 01:12:46.962 FOREST LANDS, WATERSHEDS AND 01:12:47.029 --> 01:12:48.497 WILDLIFE, AND SUSTAINABLE AND 01:12:48.564 --> 01:12:51.333 RESPECTFUL WAYS IN OUR RURAL 01:12:51.400 --> 01:12:52.234 REGION. ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY 01:12:52.301 --> 01:12:53.869 HAS HISTORICALLY BEEN LIMITED. 01:12:53.936 --> 01:12:55.971 THE TRIBE'S HOTEL CASINO IN 01:12:56.038 --> 01:12:57.439 KLAMATH IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF 01:12:57.506 --> 01:13:00.342 OUR TRIBAL ECONOMY. THOUGH 01:13:00.409 --> 01:13:01.777 MODEST IN SIZE, IT SUPPORTS 01:13:01.844 --> 01:13:03.212 SOMETHING MUCH LARGER. IT IS 01:13:03.278 --> 01:13:04.880 PART OF A BROADER VISION OF OUR 01:13:04.947 --> 01:13:07.549 PEOPLE IN THE REGION THAT 01:13:07.616 --> 01:13:08.917 PROVIDES MUCH NEEDED JOBS. IN 01:13:08.984 --> 01:13:10.919 KLAMATH, COMMUNITY REVENUE FROM 01:13:10.986 --> 01:13:12.488 THE HOTEL CASINO IS USED TO 01:13:12.554 --> 01:13:13.655 SUPPORT A VARIETY OF THE 01:13:13.722 --> 01:13:16.558 TRIBE'S OVER 40 DISTINCT 01:13:16.625 --> 01:13:17.860 PROGRAMS. THESE PROGRAMS 01:13:17.926 --> 01:13:19.428 SUPPORT OUR TRIBAL CITIZENS, 01:13:19.495 --> 01:13:20.629 LAND MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES AND 01:13:20.696 --> 01:13:21.964 OUR CRITICAL PART OF OUR 01:13:22.030 --> 01:13:23.365 EFFORTS TO PROTECT NATURAL 01:13:23.432 --> 01:13:25.200 RESOURCES IN OUR HOMELANDS AND 01:13:25.267 --> 01:13:27.436 BEYOND. THE HOTEL CASINO ALSO 01:13:27.503 --> 01:13:28.670 SERVES AS A CRITICAL COMPONENT 01:13:28.737 --> 01:13:30.939 OF OUR TOURISM ECONOMY, 01:13:31.006 --> 01:13:32.341 PROVIDING LODGING, FOOD, AND 01:13:32.407 --> 01:13:33.509 ENTERTAINMENT FOR THOSE WHO 01:13:33.575 --> 01:13:34.676 VISIT OUR LANDS TO ENGAGE IN 01:13:34.743 --> 01:13:36.712 THE VARIOUS OUTDOOR 01:13:36.779 --> 01:13:37.746 RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES THE 01:13:37.813 --> 01:13:40.215 TRIBE AND ITS PEOPLE PROVIDE. 01:13:40.282 --> 01:13:42.017 THE COMPACT ITSELF IS 01:13:42.084 --> 01:13:43.519 STRAIGHTFORWARD. UNDER THE NEW 01:13:43.585 --> 01:13:45.687 COMPACT. YUROK TRIBE WILL 01:13:45.754 --> 01:13:47.790 REMAIN A LIMITED GAMING TRIBE, 01:13:47.856 --> 01:13:49.358 OPERATING OUR MODEST GAMING 01:13:49.424 --> 01:13:50.425 LOCATIONS IN KLAMATH, WITH THE 01:13:50.492 --> 01:13:52.528 OPTIONS TO OPERATE A THIRD, A 01:13:52.594 --> 01:13:53.929 SMALL FACILITY ON THE TRIBE'S 01:13:53.996 --> 01:13:54.997 RESERVATION LANDS IN HUMBOLDT 01:13:55.063 --> 01:14:00.068 COUNTY. ALL. ALL FACILITIES 01:14:00.135 --> 01:14:00.869 COMBINED. THE TRIBE WILL 01:14:00.936 --> 01:14:03.038 OPERATE NO MORE THAN 349 CLASS 01:14:03.105 --> 01:14:04.907 THREE MACHINES GAMING MACHINES. 01:14:04.973 --> 01:14:07.676 AS MENTIONED BY MR. LEE, THE 01:14:07.743 --> 01:14:09.111 PROVISIONS OUR NEW COMPACT ARE 01:14:09.178 --> 01:14:10.646 CONSISTENT WITH THOSE CONTAINED 01:14:10.712 --> 01:14:12.381 IN OTHER TRIBAL, STATE, COMMON. 01:14:12.447 --> 01:14:14.149 OTHER TRIBAL STATE GAMING 01:14:14.216 --> 01:14:15.984 COMPACTS NEGOTIATED BY THE NEW 01:14:16.051 --> 01:14:17.419 ADMINISTRATION AND RATIFIED BY 01:14:17.486 --> 01:14:20.189 THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE. 01:14:20.255 --> 01:14:21.890 OVERALL, THE COMPACT PROVIDES A 01:14:21.957 --> 01:14:23.125 WELL BALANCED AGREEMENT THAT 01:14:23.192 --> 01:14:24.860 ADVANCES ECONOMIC FOR OUR TRIBE 01:14:24.927 --> 01:14:26.662 AND PROTECTS THE INTEGRITY OF 01:14:26.728 --> 01:14:28.831 OUR PUBLIC INTEREST ON BEHALF 01:14:28.897 --> 01:14:31.400 OF THE TRIBE, I RESPECTFULLY 01:14:31.466 --> 01:14:32.835 ASK THE COMMITTEE SUPPORT FOR 01:14:32.901 --> 01:14:34.670 THE BILL THAT WE. THAT WE 01:14:34.736 --> 01:14:36.705 RATIFY THIS COMPACT WHEN IT IS 01:14:36.772 --> 01:14:38.974 TAKEN UP ON THE SENATE FLOOR. 01:14:39.041 --> 01:14:40.442 BEHALF MYSELF, OUR TRIBAL 01:14:40.509 --> 01:14:42.077 COUNCIL, OUR PEOPLE. THANK YOU 01:14:42.144 --> 01:14:46.515 FOR THIS TIME. THANK YOU VERY 01:14:46.582 --> 01:14:49.751 MUCH. CHAIRMAN JAMES WILL NOW 01:14:49.818 --> 01:14:50.819 CONTINUE WITH ANY PUBLIC 01:14:50.886 --> 01:14:56.959 COMMENT HERE. OKAY. SEEING NO 01:14:57.025 --> 01:14:58.026 PUBLIC COMMENT, WE'LL BRING IT 01:14:58.093 --> 01:15:00.162 BACK TO THE DAIS. ANY COMMENTS? 01:15:00.229 --> 01:15:03.131 QUESTIONS? THEY'RE DOING WELL. 01:15:03.198 --> 01:15:06.001 OKAY. WE HAVE A THUMBS UP ON 01:15:06.068 --> 01:15:08.103 THAT END. SO WE'LL GO AHEAD AND 01:15:08.170 --> 01:15:10.606 CLOSE THE THIS. THIS SECTION 01:15:10.672 --> 01:15:12.074 WILL NOW CONTINUE WITH ITEM 01:15:12.140 --> 01:15:14.610 NUMBER SEVEN. FIRST AMENDMENT 01:15:14.676 --> 01:15:15.844 TO THE TRIBAL STATE COMPACT 01:15:15.911 --> 01:15:17.012 BETWEEN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 01:15:17.079 --> 01:15:18.914 AND THE PECHANGA BAND OF 01:15:18.981 --> 01:15:22.551 INDIANS. WE'LL HAVE IN THIS 01:15:22.618 --> 01:15:23.919 PANEL, MATTHEW LEE, SENIOR 01:15:23.986 --> 01:15:25.387 ADVISOR FOR THE TRIBAL 01:15:25.454 --> 01:15:26.421 NEGOTIATIONS OFFICE OF GOVERNOR 01:15:26.488 --> 01:15:29.358 GAVIN NEWSOM, AND MARK Ã 01:15:29.424 --> 01:15:30.792 MACARRO, CHAIRPERSON OF THE 01:15:30.859 --> 01:15:44.072 PECHANGA BAND OF INDIANS. 01:15:44.139 --> 01:15:46.575 WELCOME AND GOOD MORNING. THANK 01:15:46.642 --> 01:15:48.443 YOU. GOOD MORNING. PLEASE 01:15:48.510 --> 01:15:50.245 PROCEED WHEN YOU'RE READY. 01:15:50.312 --> 01:15:52.014 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND JUST 01:15:52.080 --> 01:15:56.351 WANT TO SAY AGAIN THAT THIS 01:15:56.418 --> 01:15:58.520 COMPACT, THIS COMPACT AMENDMENT, 01:15:58.587 --> 01:15:59.721 LIKE SOME OF THE OTHERS WE'VE 01:15:59.788 --> 01:16:01.390 SEEN THIS MORNING, IS ANOTHER 01:16:01.456 --> 01:16:03.558 SITUATION IN WHICH WE HAVE A 01:16:03.625 --> 01:16:04.226 TRIBAL GOVERNMENT THAT IS 01:16:04.293 --> 01:16:05.360 REALLY BEEN AN EXCELLENT 01:16:05.427 --> 01:16:07.596 PARTNER TO THE STATE, NOT JUST 01:16:07.663 --> 01:16:09.331 WHEN IT COMES TO CLASS THREE 01:16:09.398 --> 01:16:10.699 GAMING AND THE POST CHICKEN 01:16:10.766 --> 01:16:12.167 RANCH ENVIRONMENT, BUT REALLY 01:16:12.234 --> 01:16:13.936 ACROSS THE FULL SPECTRUM OF OUR 01:16:14.002 --> 01:16:15.370 GOVERNMENT TO GOVERNMENT 01:16:15.437 --> 01:16:19.007 RELATIONSHIP. AND SO I THINK 01:16:19.074 --> 01:16:22.611 YOU SEE THAT REFLECTED IN THE 01:16:22.678 --> 01:16:25.180 SAME BASIC KIND OF COMPACT 01:16:25.247 --> 01:16:26.982 AMENDMENT THAT WE'VE BEEN 01:16:27.049 --> 01:16:28.383 DISCUSSING A FEW OTHER TIMES SO 01:16:28.450 --> 01:16:30.886 FAR THIS MORNING. YOU SEE THE 01:16:30.953 --> 01:16:35.590 SAME. AFFIRMATION FROM THE 01:16:35.657 --> 01:16:38.860 TRIBE THAT IS NOT GOING TO TO 01:16:38.927 --> 01:16:40.395 OVER CERTAIN COMPACT TERMS, 01:16:40.462 --> 01:16:41.396 BECAUSE THAT'S JUST NOT THE 01:16:41.463 --> 01:16:42.798 KIND OF RELATIONSHIP THAT IT 01:16:42.864 --> 01:16:45.400 HAS WITH THE STATE. YOU ALSO 01:16:45.467 --> 01:16:46.935 SEE THAT, I THINK, REFLECTED IN 01:16:47.002 --> 01:16:49.972 SOME OF THE OTHER COMPACT TERMS. 01:16:50.038 --> 01:16:51.440 AND THIS, I THINK, GOES TO A 01:16:51.506 --> 01:16:53.008 VERY GOOD POINT THAT SENATOR 01:16:53.075 --> 01:16:54.643 RICHARDSON WAS MAKING EARLIER. 01:16:54.710 --> 01:16:56.345 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE WAYS IN 01:16:56.411 --> 01:16:57.879 WHICH I LIKE TO THINK THAT THE 01:16:57.946 --> 01:16:59.648 STATE HAS GOTTEN BETTER AS A 01:16:59.715 --> 01:17:02.217 GOVERNMENT IN RECOGNIZING AND 01:17:02.284 --> 01:17:05.187 RESPECTING THE TREMENDOUS WORK 01:17:05.253 --> 01:17:06.521 THAT ITS FELLOW GOVERNMENTS, 01:17:06.588 --> 01:17:09.725 THE TRIBES CAN DO, IS, YOU KNOW, 01:17:09.791 --> 01:17:11.560 GREATER RECOGNITION, INCLUDING 01:17:11.626 --> 01:17:14.830 IN THESE GAMING COMPACTS OF THE 01:17:14.896 --> 01:17:16.264 IMPORTANT PUBLIC SERVICES, THE 01:17:16.331 --> 01:17:17.666 IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT SERVICES 01:17:17.733 --> 01:17:19.134 THAT THAT TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS 01:17:19.201 --> 01:17:20.969 CAN PROVIDE AS GOVERNMENTS. AND 01:17:21.036 --> 01:17:22.671 SO JUST TO MAKE THAT A LITTLE 01:17:22.738 --> 01:17:24.539 MORE CONCRETE IN THE CONTEXT OF 01:17:24.606 --> 01:17:28.110 THIS PARTICULAR AMENDMENT, THE 01:17:28.176 --> 01:17:31.346 TRIBE'S EXISTING COMPACT HAD A 01:17:31.413 --> 01:17:33.982 PROVISION THAT HAD HAD AND HAS 01:17:34.049 --> 01:17:35.984 A PROVISION THAT REQUIRES IT TO 01:17:36.051 --> 01:17:38.920 PAY INTO WHAT'S CALLED A LOCAL 01:17:38.987 --> 01:17:39.988 COMMUNITY BENEFIT FUND, WHICH 01:17:40.055 --> 01:17:42.224 IS INTENDED TO FUND LOCAL 01:17:42.290 --> 01:17:44.393 PUBLIC SERVICES, WHICH COULD BE, 01:17:44.459 --> 01:17:46.161 YOU KNOW, EDUCATION, FIRE 01:17:46.228 --> 01:17:47.929 PROTECTION, ALL OF THE OTHER 01:17:47.996 --> 01:17:50.065 IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT SERVICES 01:17:50.132 --> 01:17:52.034 THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT 01:17:52.100 --> 01:17:54.403 SO FAR THIS MORNING. AND I 01:17:54.469 --> 01:17:55.837 THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO 01:17:55.904 --> 01:17:57.372 RECOGNIZE THAT PECHANGA, LIKE, 01:17:57.439 --> 01:18:00.542 LIKE OTHER TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS, 01:18:00.609 --> 01:18:02.411 IS MORE THAN CAPABLE OF 01:18:02.477 --> 01:18:04.112 PROVIDING THOSE SERVICES ITSELF. 01:18:04.179 --> 01:18:05.881 YOU KNOW, IT RUNS ITS OWN 01:18:05.947 --> 01:18:07.115 HEALTH CARE FACILITY. IT RUNS 01:18:07.182 --> 01:18:09.051 ITS OWN SCHOOL, IT RUNS ITS OWN 01:18:09.117 --> 01:18:10.685 FIRE DEPARTMENT, YOU KNOW, AND 01:18:10.752 --> 01:18:13.688 SO IN THE TRIBE'S OLDER COMPACT, 01:18:13.755 --> 01:18:16.024 I THINK YOU SAW SORT OF AT 01:18:16.091 --> 01:18:18.160 LEAST AN IMPLICIT ASSUMPTION 01:18:18.226 --> 01:18:20.328 THAT TRIBAL GOVERNMENT SUPPORT 01:18:20.395 --> 01:18:21.830 FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICES 01:18:21.897 --> 01:18:24.032 NECESSARILY IMPLIED, YOU KNOW, 01:18:24.099 --> 01:18:25.033 PAYING OTHER GOVERNMENTS TO 01:18:25.100 --> 01:18:26.902 PROVIDE THAT SERVICE. AND ONE 01:18:26.968 --> 01:18:28.170 OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING 01:18:28.236 --> 01:18:30.739 TO DO IN THIS COMPACT, COMPACT 01:18:30.806 --> 01:18:33.341 AMENDMENT IS BEING, YOU KNOW, 01:18:33.408 --> 01:18:34.776 MORE THOUGHTFUL AND MORE 01:18:34.843 --> 01:18:35.977 RESPECTFUL ABOUT RECOGNIZING 01:18:36.044 --> 01:18:37.245 THAT TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS 01:18:37.312 --> 01:18:38.713 ACTUALLY DO A GREAT JOB OF 01:18:38.780 --> 01:18:40.482 PROVIDING THOSE SERVICES 01:18:40.549 --> 01:18:42.684 THEMSELVES. AND SO WE HAVE, YOU 01:18:42.751 --> 01:18:44.553 KNOW, CLARIFIED AND EXPANDED 01:18:44.619 --> 01:18:47.689 THE SCOPE OF THAT LOCAL 01:18:47.756 --> 01:18:49.825 COMMUNITY BENEFIT FUND TO 01:18:49.891 --> 01:18:53.028 CONFIRM THAT. OF COURSE, IF THE 01:18:53.095 --> 01:18:55.230 TRIBE IS SPENDING THAT MONEY ON 01:18:55.297 --> 01:18:57.065 ITS OWN SERVICES, OF COURSE, 01:18:57.132 --> 01:18:58.533 THAT COUNTS. OF COURSE, THAT'S 01:18:58.600 --> 01:19:00.302 THE KIND OF THING THAT THAT 01:19:00.368 --> 01:19:01.570 THIS FUND IS MEANT TO PROMOTE. 01:19:01.636 --> 01:19:03.538 AND SO REALLY DO WANT TO 01:19:03.605 --> 01:19:04.739 EXPRESS TREMENDOUS GRATITUDE 01:19:04.806 --> 01:19:06.775 AND APPRECIATION AND RESPECT 01:19:06.842 --> 01:19:10.011 FOR ALL OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES 01:19:10.078 --> 01:19:11.413 THAT PECHANGA, LIKE OTHER 01:19:11.480 --> 01:19:14.349 TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS, PROVIDES IN 01:19:14.416 --> 01:19:17.185 THE EXERCISE OF OF ITS OWN 01:19:17.252 --> 01:19:20.755 SOVEREIGNTY. HAPPY TO SAY MORE 01:19:20.822 --> 01:19:22.591 ABOUT THAT FLEXIBILITY ON THE 01:19:22.657 --> 01:19:24.392 REVENUE TERMS. YOU SEE, AGAIN, 01:19:24.459 --> 01:19:26.595 A LITTLE MORE FLEXIBILITY IN 01:19:26.661 --> 01:19:28.730 TERMS OF THE SCALE OF GAMING 01:19:28.797 --> 01:19:30.165 ACTIVITIES. ANOTHER 1000 DEVICE 01:19:30.232 --> 01:19:33.201 INCREASE HERE. YOU SEE SORT OF 01:19:33.268 --> 01:19:34.703 THAT STANDARD POST CHICKEN 01:19:34.769 --> 01:19:36.671 RANCH CLEANUP I'VE BEEN 01:19:36.738 --> 01:19:38.773 DESCRIBING, AND ALSO TECHNICAL 01:19:38.840 --> 01:19:40.208 CLEANUP TO ALIGN SOME OF THE 01:19:40.275 --> 01:19:41.676 MORE TECHNICAL PROVISIONS OF 01:19:41.743 --> 01:19:45.280 THE COMPACT WITH MORE RECENT 01:19:45.347 --> 01:19:46.748 COMPACTS IN WAYS THAT WORK A 01:19:46.815 --> 01:19:48.183 LITTLE MORE SMOOTHLY FOR 01:19:48.250 --> 01:19:50.018 EVERYBODY. FINALLY, THERE'S AN 01:19:50.085 --> 01:19:52.487 EXTENDED COMPACT TERM TO 2060. 01:19:52.554 --> 01:19:54.322 AND BY WAY OF CLOSING Dð JUST 01:19:54.389 --> 01:19:55.757 WANT TO MAKE SURE TO 01:19:55.824 --> 01:19:57.425 ACKNOWLEDGE WHEN IT COMES TO 01:19:57.492 --> 01:19:58.860 ALL OF THE TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS 01:19:58.927 --> 01:20:00.061 THAT HAVE WORKED WITH US TO 01:20:00.128 --> 01:20:01.530 PRESENT THE COMPACTS AND 01:20:01.596 --> 01:20:02.531 COMPACT AMENDMENTS THAT ARE 01:20:02.597 --> 01:20:04.766 BEFORE THIS BODY TODAY, REALLY 01:20:04.833 --> 01:20:06.535 DO WANT TO EXPRESS TREMENDOUS 01:20:06.601 --> 01:20:08.370 GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION AND 01:20:08.436 --> 01:20:11.940 RESPECT STRUCTURALLY. SOMETIMES 01:20:12.007 --> 01:20:13.441 I FEEL LIKE THE FEDERAL LAW IN 01:20:13.508 --> 01:20:14.910 QUESTION HERE IS NOT DESIGNED 01:20:14.976 --> 01:20:16.111 TO MAKE OUR LIVES EASY. YOU 01:20:16.178 --> 01:20:17.379 KNOW, YOU PUT TWO GOVERNMENTS 01:20:17.445 --> 01:20:18.947 ACROSS THE TABLE FROM EACH 01:20:19.014 --> 01:20:21.049 OTHER, AND IT SEEMS LIKE THAT 01:20:21.116 --> 01:20:23.885 IS A NATURAL RECIPE FOR 01:20:23.952 --> 01:20:24.653 DISAGREEMENT, BECAUSE, OF 01:20:24.719 --> 01:20:25.754 COURSE, GOVERNMENTS HAVE THEIR 01:20:25.820 --> 01:20:27.088 OWN INTERESTS AND IT'S 01:20:27.155 --> 01:20:28.156 APPROPRIATE THAT THEY SHOULD 01:20:28.223 --> 01:20:30.659 STAND UP FOR THOSE INTERESTS. 01:20:30.725 --> 01:20:32.794 BUT IT REALLY IS STRIKING TO ME 01:20:32.861 --> 01:20:34.763 THAT THE PROCESS WITH PECHANGA 01:20:34.829 --> 01:20:35.964 AND WITH THE OTHER TRIBES THAT 01:20:36.031 --> 01:20:37.832 HAVE BEEN HERE TODAY, HAS BEEN 01:20:37.899 --> 01:20:41.436 SO RESPECTFUL AND MUTUALLY 01:20:41.503 --> 01:20:42.470 PRODUCTIVE AND SUPPORTIVE. AND 01:20:42.537 --> 01:20:44.773 IT REALLY, I THINK, DOES DOES 01:20:44.839 --> 01:20:46.241 DEMONSTRATE THE KINDS OF GREAT 01:20:46.308 --> 01:20:47.943 THINGS THAT SENATOR RICHARDSON 01:20:48.009 --> 01:20:51.546 WAS ALLUDING TO. WHEN YOU SEE 01:20:51.613 --> 01:20:52.681 DIFFERENT GOVERNMENTS WORKING 01:20:52.747 --> 01:20:53.782 TOGETHER FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD. 01:20:53.848 --> 01:20:55.650 AND SO WITH THAT, I JUST WANT 01:20:55.717 --> 01:20:56.851 TO CLOSE WITH ANOTHER GRATITUDE 01:20:56.918 --> 01:20:57.819 AND APPRECIATION AND RESPECT 01:20:57.886 --> 01:20:58.853 AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY 01:20:58.920 --> 01:21:02.691 QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. SO I AM 01:21:02.757 --> 01:21:04.926 BACK. THANK YOU FOR INDULGING 01:21:04.993 --> 01:21:06.494 ME, TRYING TO TAKE CARE OF SOME 01:21:06.561 --> 01:21:07.796 BUSINESS ACROSS THE STREET. 01:21:07.862 --> 01:21:09.531 APPRECIATE IT. BUT I KNOW THAT 01:21:09.598 --> 01:21:11.333 YOU JUST WENT. SO I WILL MOVE 01:21:11.399 --> 01:21:15.670 OVER NOW TO CHAIRMAN MARK 01:21:15.737 --> 01:21:18.940 MACARRO. IS THIS ON? OH YEAH, 01:21:19.007 --> 01:21:23.278 IT IS. OKAY. MAY YOU. GOOD 01:21:23.345 --> 01:21:25.747 MORNING, CHAIRWOMAN RUBIO AND 01:21:25.814 --> 01:21:27.249 MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE. MY 01:21:27.315 --> 01:21:29.050 NAME IS MARK MACARRO, AND I 01:21:29.117 --> 01:21:30.452 HAVE I HAVE SERVED AS THE 01:21:30.518 --> 01:21:31.553 TRIBAL CHAIRMAN FOR THE 01:21:31.620 --> 01:21:32.988 PECHANGA BAND OF INDIANS IN 01:21:33.054 --> 01:21:35.457 TEMECULA SINCE 1995, 31 01:21:35.523 --> 01:21:38.326 CONSECUTIVE YEARS. AND I'M ALSO 01:21:38.393 --> 01:21:39.794 CURRENTLY HAVE THE DISTINCT 01:21:39.861 --> 01:21:41.263 PRIVILEGE OF SERVING AS THE 01:21:41.329 --> 01:21:42.330 PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL 01:21:42.397 --> 01:21:43.565 CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS, 01:21:43.632 --> 01:21:47.802 BASED IN WASHINGTON, D.C. THANK 01:21:47.869 --> 01:21:49.137 YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO 01:21:49.204 --> 01:21:50.338 DISCUSS THIS FIRST AMENDMENT TO 01:21:50.405 --> 01:21:53.475 THE 2016 TRIBAL STATE COMPACT 01:21:53.541 --> 01:21:56.011 NOW IS LOCATED ON A SMALL 01:21:56.077 --> 01:21:57.412 VESTIGE OF OUR ABORIGINAL LAND 01:21:57.479 --> 01:21:59.247 IN SOUTHWEST RIVERSIDE COUNTY 01:21:59.314 --> 01:22:01.683 IN TEMECULA VALLEY. THIS ALSO 01:22:01.750 --> 01:22:02.817 INCLUDES. OUR LAND BASE ALSO 01:22:02.884 --> 01:22:05.353 INCLUDES 80 ACRES IN SAN DIEGO 01:22:05.420 --> 01:22:07.522 COUNTY. OUR RESERVATION 01:22:07.589 --> 01:22:09.691 CONSISTS OF NEARLY 10,000 ACRES 01:22:09.758 --> 01:22:13.595 AND OVER 2285 ENROLLED TRIBAL 01:22:13.662 --> 01:22:15.397 CITIZENS, AND WE CONTINUE TO 01:22:15.463 --> 01:22:18.366 GROW. MEMBERS. I AM PROUD TO 01:22:18.433 --> 01:22:20.135 SAY THAT THIS IS THE LARGEST 01:22:20.201 --> 01:22:22.270 OUR TRIBE HAS BEEN SINCE THE 01:22:22.337 --> 01:22:24.072 HUMAN RIGHTS DEVASTATION OF THE 01:22:24.139 --> 01:22:26.241 SPANISH MISSION PERIOD, WHICH 01:22:26.308 --> 01:22:27.909 FOR US BEGAN WITH MISSION SAN 01:22:27.976 --> 01:22:30.645 LUIS REY IN 1798, BOTH IN TERMS 01:22:30.712 --> 01:22:33.415 OF A MASSIVE 90% POPULATION 01:22:33.481 --> 01:22:36.017 LOSS FROM THE MISSIONS AND ALSO 01:22:36.084 --> 01:22:37.686 THE LOSS OF OUR TRIBAL 01:22:37.752 --> 01:22:39.888 TERRITORY AND LAND BASE, ALL 01:22:39.954 --> 01:22:43.158 WITHIN ONE GENERATION COHORT. 01:22:43.224 --> 01:22:44.926 SO TODAY, BY CONTRAST, WE'RE 01:22:44.993 --> 01:22:47.095 ABLE TO TO LIVE OUR CULTURE AND 01:22:47.162 --> 01:22:48.930 SPEAK OUR LANGUAGE, A LANGUAGE 01:22:48.997 --> 01:22:51.466 THAT SO MANY WORKED SO HARD TO 01:22:51.533 --> 01:22:53.868 ELIMINATE. AND WE WORK TO 01:22:53.935 --> 01:22:55.070 RECOVER OUR CULTURALLY 01:22:55.136 --> 01:22:56.104 SIGNIFICANT LANDS AND TO 01:22:56.171 --> 01:22:58.606 PROTECT OUR SACRED SITES. THIS 01:22:58.673 --> 01:23:00.041 RESILIENCE IS ROOTED IN 01:23:00.108 --> 01:23:01.876 SOMETHING FUNDAMENTAL. THE 01:23:01.943 --> 01:23:03.378 SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP THAT 01:23:03.445 --> 01:23:04.746 PECHANGA AND ALL FEDERALLY 01:23:04.813 --> 01:23:06.181 RECOGNIZED TRIBES HOLD WITH THE 01:23:06.247 --> 01:23:08.283 UNITED STATES AND THE STATE OF 01:23:08.350 --> 01:23:10.051 CALIFORNIA. IT'S A RELATIONSHIP 01:23:10.118 --> 01:23:11.186 THAT IS ROOTED IN WELL 01:23:11.252 --> 01:23:12.654 ESTABLISHED FEDERAL POLICY, 01:23:12.721 --> 01:23:14.489 THAT INDIAN NATIONS ARE 01:23:14.556 --> 01:23:16.624 DISTINCT, INDEPENDENT POLITICAL 01:23:16.691 --> 01:23:19.127 ENTITIES, THAT THAT ARE 01:23:19.194 --> 01:23:21.329 INDEPENDENT, THAT RELATE, THAT 01:23:21.396 --> 01:23:25.600 RETAIN, WE RETAIN OUR ORIGINAL 01:23:25.667 --> 01:23:27.035 GOVERNANCE RIGHTS FROM TIME 01:23:27.102 --> 01:23:29.204 IMMEMORIAL. WE BELIEVE IT'S A 01:23:29.270 --> 01:23:30.638 FUNDAMENTAL OBLIGATION OF EACH 01:23:30.705 --> 01:23:32.107 GENERATION TO CHERISH AND 01:23:32.173 --> 01:23:33.441 PROTECT THESE RIGHTS FOR OUR 01:23:33.508 --> 01:23:36.111 FUTURE GENERATIONS. NOW, 01:23:36.177 --> 01:23:37.545 MEMBERS, WHEN WE OPENED OUR 01:23:37.612 --> 01:23:38.747 PECHANGA ENTERTAINMENT CENTER 01:23:38.813 --> 01:23:41.816 IN 1995, WE HAD A SIMPLE VISION 01:23:41.883 --> 01:23:43.618 TO CREATE JOBS FOR OUR TRIBAL 01:23:43.685 --> 01:23:45.286 MEMBERS, TO GENERATE REVENUES 01:23:45.353 --> 01:23:46.855 FOR FUNDAMENTAL AND MODEST 01:23:46.921 --> 01:23:49.023 TRIBAL PROGRAMS LIKE RELIABLE 01:23:49.090 --> 01:23:50.125 DRINKING WATER FOR OUR 01:23:50.191 --> 01:23:52.260 RESIDENTS, BASIC HEALTH CARE, 01:23:52.327 --> 01:23:53.995 EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR 01:23:54.062 --> 01:23:55.530 OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, AND CULTURAL 01:23:55.597 --> 01:23:57.232 RESOURCE PROTECTION FOR THE 01:23:57.298 --> 01:23:59.134 NEXT GENERATION. OUR 01:23:59.200 --> 01:24:00.935 ENTERTAINMENT CENTER OPENED IN 01:24:01.002 --> 01:24:03.438 MODULAR TRAILERS WITH ONLY 135 01:24:03.505 --> 01:24:05.640 EMPLOYEES, BUT A FERVENT DESIRE 01:24:05.707 --> 01:24:07.409 TO BREAK THE POVERTY CYCLE, 01:24:07.475 --> 01:24:09.277 WHICH HAD LONG PLAGUED OUR 01:24:09.344 --> 01:24:11.346 TRIBE. THANKS TO THE GUIDANCE 01:24:11.413 --> 01:24:12.781 AND THE WISDOM OF OUR TRIBE, 01:24:12.847 --> 01:24:15.316 OUR ELDERS, ESPECIALLY THE 01:24:15.383 --> 01:24:16.718 LOYALTY AND THE HARD WORK OF 01:24:16.785 --> 01:24:18.219 OUR TEAM MEMBERS, AND THE 01:24:18.286 --> 01:24:19.254 FRIENDSHIP AND SUPPORT OF OUR 01:24:19.320 --> 01:24:21.456 NEIGHBORS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS. 01:24:21.523 --> 01:24:23.024 PECHANGA TODAY DIRECTLY EMPLOYS 01:24:23.091 --> 01:24:26.060 MORE THAN 4600 CALIFORNIANS, 01:24:26.127 --> 01:24:28.630 WHICH TRANSLATES TO A STATEWIDE 01:24:28.696 --> 01:24:32.567 ECONOMIC IMPACT OF $1.3 BILLION. 01:24:32.634 --> 01:24:34.402 TRIBAL GAMING PROVIDES US 01:24:34.469 --> 01:24:36.171 IMPORTANT FUNDING FOR CRITICAL 01:24:36.237 --> 01:24:37.272 GOVERNMENTAL PROGRAMS AND 01:24:37.338 --> 01:24:38.673 ESSENTIAL SERVICES FOR OUR 01:24:38.740 --> 01:24:40.141 CITIZENS, INCLUDING CULTURAL 01:24:40.208 --> 01:24:41.543 RESOURCES, PROTECTION, QUALITY 01:24:41.609 --> 01:24:43.745 HEALTH CARE, ENVIRONMENTAL 01:24:43.812 --> 01:24:45.513 PROTECTION, WATER 01:24:45.580 --> 01:24:46.981 INFRASTRUCTURE, SENIOR SUPPORT 01:24:47.048 --> 01:24:48.783 PROGRAMS, YOUTH PROGRAMS, 01:24:48.850 --> 01:24:51.019 SCHOLARSHIP FUNDING AND ENERGY 01:24:51.085 --> 01:24:52.420 PROJECTS. AND MORE THAN I HAVE 01:24:52.487 --> 01:24:54.522 TIME TO LIST HERE, OUR 01:24:54.589 --> 01:24:56.357 COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY EXTENDS 01:24:56.424 --> 01:24:59.260 WELL BEYOND OUR BORDERS. OUR 01:24:59.327 --> 01:25:00.728 FULLY EQUIPPED PECHANGA FIRE 01:25:00.795 --> 01:25:02.497 DEPARTMENT, FOR EXAMPLE, IS AN 01:25:02.564 --> 01:25:04.599 ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN THE STATE 01:25:04.666 --> 01:25:07.502 OF CALIFORNIA'S MASTER MASTER 01:25:07.569 --> 01:25:09.304 MUTUAL AID SYSTEM AND IS 01:25:09.370 --> 01:25:10.939 REGULARLY DISPATCHED ON STRIKE 01:25:11.005 --> 01:25:12.540 TEAM ASSIGNMENTS TO WILDFIRES 01:25:12.607 --> 01:25:14.776 THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA AND 01:25:14.843 --> 01:25:17.011 BEYOND. FOR INSTANCE, ON AUGUST 01:25:17.078 --> 01:25:18.279 1ST, ONE OF OUR BATTALION 01:25:18.346 --> 01:25:20.081 CHIEFS WAS DISPATCHED TO 01:25:20.148 --> 01:25:22.283 WASHINGTON STATE AS PART TO BE 01:25:22.350 --> 01:25:23.551 PART OF AN INCIDENT MANAGEMENT 01:25:23.618 --> 01:25:26.721 TEAM ASSIGNMENT TO THE FIRE, 01:25:26.788 --> 01:25:28.356 WHICH IS 30 MILES FROM THE 01:25:28.423 --> 01:25:29.224 CANADIAN BORDER. HE'S STILL 01:25:29.290 --> 01:25:31.593 THERE ON ASSIGNMENT, BY THE WAY. 01:25:31.659 --> 01:25:34.162 SIX DAYS LATER, ON AUGUST 6TH. 01:25:34.229 --> 01:25:37.398 PECHANGA OR BRUSH ONE. OUR MAIN 01:25:37.465 --> 01:25:39.601 FIRST ROLL BRUSH UNIT WAS 01:25:39.667 --> 01:25:40.635 MOBILIZED AGAIN ON A STRIKE 01:25:40.702 --> 01:25:42.504 TEAM ASSIGNMENT, THIS TIME TO 01:25:42.570 --> 01:25:45.373 THE GUNFIRE IN CALAVERAS COUNTY 01:25:45.440 --> 01:25:47.442 AND ALSO IN THIS SIMILAR TIME 01:25:47.509 --> 01:25:49.210 FRAME HERE OVER THE LAST TWO 01:25:49.277 --> 01:25:50.678 WEEKS, BRUSH ONE WAS ALSO 01:25:50.745 --> 01:25:52.514 ASSIGNED TO THE RIDGE FIRE. 01:25:52.580 --> 01:25:54.282 THEY'VE SINCE BEEN DEMOBILIZED 01:25:54.349 --> 01:25:56.150 AND ARE BACK IN STATION RIGHT 01:25:56.217 --> 01:25:58.853 NOW. BEYOND THAT, PHD PERSONNEL 01:25:58.920 --> 01:26:01.523 ARE ALSO TRAINED, AND AS 01:26:01.589 --> 01:26:03.458 THEY'RE HIGHLY TRAINED AS URBAN 01:26:03.525 --> 01:26:06.895 SEARCH AND RESCUE PERSONNEL, 01:26:06.961 --> 01:26:08.696 THEY'RE ALSO INSTRUCTORS FOR 01:26:08.763 --> 01:26:11.332 USAR. SO THEY PARTICIPATE IN 01:26:11.399 --> 01:26:13.101 CALIFORNIA'S TASK FORCE SIX, 01:26:13.167 --> 01:26:15.003 AND THEY ARE THERE'S A IT'S 01:26:15.069 --> 01:26:16.971 PART OF THIS REGIONAL FEMA USAR 01:26:17.038 --> 01:26:19.107 TEAM, WHICH IS SPONSORED BY 01:26:19.173 --> 01:26:21.309 RIVERSIDE FIRE DEPARTMENT. SO 01:26:21.376 --> 01:26:23.478 THIS TEAM AND OUR FIRE 01:26:23.545 --> 01:26:24.612 DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL HAVE 01:26:24.679 --> 01:26:26.314 DEPLOYED TO MAJOR NATIONAL 01:26:26.381 --> 01:26:27.815 DISASTERS, LIKE THE RECOVERY 01:26:27.882 --> 01:26:29.250 EFFORT FOR HURRICANE MARIA IN 01:26:29.317 --> 01:26:32.487 PUERTO RICO IN 2017 AND ALSO 01:26:32.554 --> 01:26:34.322 TWO YEARS AGO FOR HURRICANE 01:26:34.389 --> 01:26:36.491 HELENE IN NORTH CAROLINA IN 01:26:36.558 --> 01:26:39.327 2024. SO MOST IMPORTANTLY, BACK 01:26:39.394 --> 01:26:41.563 HOME, WE HAVE DEVELOPED A WASKE 01:26:41.629 --> 01:26:43.631 ACCREDITED PRE K THROUGH FIVE 01:26:43.698 --> 01:26:44.999 SCHOOL. IT'S A RESERVATION 01:26:45.066 --> 01:26:47.268 SCHOOL, BILINGUAL SCHOOL TO 01:26:47.335 --> 01:26:49.737 REVITALIZE OUR NATIVE LANGUAGE. 01:26:49.804 --> 01:26:51.606 BUT SUPPORT FOR EDUCATION. 01:26:51.673 --> 01:26:52.874 PECHANGA SUPPORT FOR EDUCATION 01:26:52.941 --> 01:26:54.475 DOES NOT END AT OUR RESERVATION 01:26:54.542 --> 01:26:56.277 BORDER. OVER THE YEARS, WE'VE 01:26:56.344 --> 01:26:58.713 ALSO DONATED OVER $7 MILLION TO 01:26:58.780 --> 01:27:00.214 LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS IN OUR 01:27:00.281 --> 01:27:02.016 VALLEY FOR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THE 01:27:02.083 --> 01:27:04.519 ARTS, ATHLETICS AND ACADEMIC 01:27:04.586 --> 01:27:06.788 PROGRAMS SUCH AS AVID. IN TOTAL, 01:27:06.854 --> 01:27:08.923 WE HAVE DONATED OVER $40 01:27:08.990 --> 01:27:10.692 MILLION TO NONPROFITS AND 01:27:10.758 --> 01:27:12.427 SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN 01:27:12.493 --> 01:27:15.330 CALIFORNIA. MEMBERS. THIS FIRST 01:27:15.396 --> 01:27:16.431 AMENDMENT TO THE COMPACT 01:27:16.497 --> 01:27:17.832 REFLECTS THE MATURE AND 01:27:17.899 --> 01:27:18.900 RESPECTFUL GOVERNMENT TO. 01:27:18.967 --> 01:27:20.401 GOVERNMENT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 01:27:20.468 --> 01:27:22.136 PECHANGA AND THE STATE OF 01:27:22.203 --> 01:27:24.372 CALIFORNIA. THE AMENDMENT IS 01:27:24.439 --> 01:27:26.474 BEST UNDERSTOOD AS A COMPACT 01:27:26.541 --> 01:27:27.542 MODERNIZATION MEASURE THAT 01:27:27.609 --> 01:27:29.344 BRINGS THE COMPACT INTO 01:27:29.410 --> 01:27:30.612 COMPLIANCE WITH RECENT FEDERAL 01:27:30.678 --> 01:27:32.614 COURT RULINGS AND FEDERAL 01:27:32.680 --> 01:27:34.382 REGULATIONS. PURSUANT TO THE 01:27:34.449 --> 01:27:35.883 IGRA, THE INDIAN GAMING 01:27:35.950 --> 01:27:37.619 REGULATORY ACT OF 1988, THE 01:27:37.685 --> 01:27:39.487 AMENDMENT NARROWS THE COMPACT'S 01:27:39.554 --> 01:27:41.656 FOCUS TO GAMING RELATED 01:27:41.723 --> 01:27:42.724 OPERATIONS, CLARIFIES HOW 01:27:42.790 --> 01:27:43.791 CERTAIN REVENUE SHARING AND 01:27:43.858 --> 01:27:45.026 COMMUNITY BENEFIT PROVISIONS 01:27:45.093 --> 01:27:47.729 WILL WORK GOING FORWARD, AND 01:27:47.795 --> 01:27:48.796 SIMPLIFIES, REPEALS AND 01:27:48.863 --> 01:27:50.031 REPLACES SEVERAL SECTIONS THAT 01:27:50.098 --> 01:27:51.699 ARE NO LONGER CONSISTENT WITH 01:27:51.766 --> 01:27:53.468 APPLICABLE LAW OR BEST 01:27:53.534 --> 01:27:55.269 COMPACTING PRACTICES. IT ALSO 01:27:55.336 --> 01:27:57.438 GIVES THE TRIBE THE FUTURE 01:27:57.505 --> 01:27:59.574 FLEXIBILITY TO ADD UP TO 1000 01:27:59.641 --> 01:28:02.143 ADDITIONAL GAMING DEVICES IF 01:28:02.210 --> 01:28:03.845 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS WARRANT. 01:28:03.911 --> 01:28:05.380 SHOULD WE EXERCISE THAT 01:28:05.446 --> 01:28:06.781 FLEXIBILITY? IT WOULD GENERATE 01:28:06.848 --> 01:28:08.549 ADDITIONAL JOBS, ECONOMIC 01:28:08.616 --> 01:28:10.018 BENEFITS FOR THE REGION AND 01:28:10.084 --> 01:28:12.887 STATEWIDE ECONOMIC IMPACT. THIS 01:28:12.954 --> 01:28:14.389 COMPACT AMENDMENT RESPECTS THE 01:28:14.455 --> 01:28:17.191 PECHANGA BANDS SOVEREIGN RIGHTS. 01:28:17.258 --> 01:28:18.326 IMPORTANTLY, THE PROVISIONS OF 01:28:18.393 --> 01:28:19.827 THIS NEW AGREEMENT REFLECT MANY 01:28:19.894 --> 01:28:21.529 OF THE PROGRESSIVE VALUES 01:28:21.596 --> 01:28:22.964 PECHANGA AND THE STATE OF 01:28:23.031 --> 01:28:24.799 CALIFORNIA SHARE VALUES THAT 01:28:24.866 --> 01:28:26.234 MAINTAIN OUR SIGNIFICANT 01:28:26.300 --> 01:28:27.301 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE REVENUE 01:28:27.368 --> 01:28:29.804 SHARING TRUST FUND, TO THE 01:28:29.871 --> 01:28:31.372 REVENUE SHARING TRUST AND 01:28:31.439 --> 01:28:33.441 TRIBAL NATIONS GRANT FUNDS TO 01:28:33.508 --> 01:28:35.209 SUPPORT NON-GAMING AND 01:28:35.276 --> 01:28:36.644 GEOGRAPHICALLY CHALLENGED 01:28:36.711 --> 01:28:38.913 TRIBES. THE AMENDMENT ALLOWS US 01:28:38.980 --> 01:28:40.281 TO ALSO BUILD ON THE LOCAL 01:28:40.348 --> 01:28:41.449 COMMUNITY CREDIT FUND, WHICH 01:28:41.516 --> 01:28:42.917 HAS PROVEN AN INVALUABLE TOOL 01:28:42.984 --> 01:28:44.218 THAT HAS ALLOWED US TO FUND 01:28:44.285 --> 01:28:45.687 FIRE PROTECTION SERVICES, 01:28:45.753 --> 01:28:47.455 POLICE SERVICES, ROAD 01:28:47.522 --> 01:28:49.757 IMPROVEMENTS AND MORE. WE WISH 01:28:49.824 --> 01:28:51.759 TO THANK GOVERNOR NEWSOM, 01:28:51.826 --> 01:28:53.161 MATTHEW LEE AND THE DOJ TEAM 01:28:53.227 --> 01:28:54.529 FOR THEIR RESPECTFUL GOVERNMENT 01:28:54.595 --> 01:28:56.497 TO GOVERNMENT ENGAGEMENT AND 01:28:56.564 --> 01:28:58.266 MUTUAL COLLABORATION ON THIS 01:28:58.332 --> 01:28:59.934 PARTICULAR COMPACT NEGOTIATION. 01:29:00.001 --> 01:29:02.804 IN CLOSING, LET US THIS 01:29:02.870 --> 01:29:03.905 OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD ON THE 01:29:03.971 --> 01:29:05.206 PROGRESS WE'VE MADE TOGETHER 01:29:05.273 --> 01:29:06.407 AND STRENGTHEN OUR GOVERNMENT 01:29:06.474 --> 01:29:07.909 TO GOVERNMENT RELATIONSHIP FOR 01:29:07.975 --> 01:29:09.711 FUTURE GENERATIONS. WE 01:29:09.777 --> 01:29:10.812 RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR YOUR 01:29:10.878 --> 01:29:12.346 SUPPORT OF THIS FIRST OF THIS 01:29:12.413 --> 01:29:14.182 FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE PECHANGA 01:29:14.248 --> 01:29:18.419 TRIBAL STATE COMPACT. IF. IT'S 01:29:18.486 --> 01:29:20.321 THE END OF MY SPEECH, THANK YOU 01:29:20.388 --> 01:29:23.758 VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. NOW, I'D 01:29:23.825 --> 01:29:25.460 LIKE TO INVITE ANYONE FROM THE 01:29:25.526 --> 01:29:26.527 AUDIENCE WISHING TO SPEAK ON 01:29:26.594 --> 01:29:28.429 THIS MATTER, TO COME UP TO THE 01:29:28.496 --> 01:29:35.970 MICROPHONE. MADAM CHAIR, 01:29:36.037 --> 01:29:38.139 MEMBERS, BEHALF OF THE 01:29:38.206 --> 01:29:39.173 CALIFORNIA STATE COUNCIL OF 01:29:39.240 --> 01:29:42.477 LABORERS. SAID A LOT OF GOOD 01:29:42.543 --> 01:29:43.544 THINGS ABOUT THEIR INVESTMENTS 01:29:43.611 --> 01:29:45.346 TO THE LOCAL ECONOMY, AND I 01:29:45.413 --> 01:29:47.582 WANT TO ECHO SOME OF THOSE, IS 01:29:47.648 --> 01:29:49.350 AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LABORERS TO 01:29:49.417 --> 01:29:51.486 WORK WITH PECHANGA ON A LOT OF 01:29:51.552 --> 01:29:52.520 DIFFERENT FRONTS, BUT 01:29:52.587 --> 01:29:54.355 ESPECIALLY THEIR INVESTMENTS IN 01:29:54.422 --> 01:29:56.491 INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY, WATER 01:29:56.557 --> 01:29:58.626 AND TRANSPORTATION. THE 01:29:58.693 --> 01:30:00.094 PECHANGA PARKWAY, THE ROAD 01:30:00.161 --> 01:30:01.896 BRIDGE ARE ALL PROJECTS THAT 01:30:01.963 --> 01:30:04.432 PUT OUR MEMBERS TO WORK, AND IT 01:30:04.499 --> 01:30:05.867 ALSO ALLOWS US THE OPPORTUNITY 01:30:05.933 --> 01:30:08.369 TO TO WORK AND WORK WHERE WE 01:30:08.436 --> 01:30:10.938 LIVE IN THE AREA. BUT THEY'VE 01:30:11.005 --> 01:30:12.540 BEEN A GREAT PARTNER FOR US, 01:30:12.607 --> 01:30:13.741 AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO BUILDING 01:30:13.808 --> 01:30:14.809 THIS RELATIONSHIP DOWN THE ROAD. 01:30:14.876 --> 01:30:17.044 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK 01:30:17.111 --> 01:30:19.180 YOU. ANYBODY ELSE WISHING TO 01:30:19.247 --> 01:30:21.482 SPEAK? OKAY. SEEING NO INTEREST? 01:30:21.549 --> 01:30:22.817 WELL, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU 01:30:22.884 --> 01:30:25.086 FOR FOR JOINING US HERE TODAY. 01:30:25.153 --> 01:30:27.789 AND CONGRATULATIONS 31 01:30:27.855 --> 01:30:29.223 CONSECUTIVE YEARS. THAT ONLY 01:30:29.290 --> 01:30:31.125 SPEAKS TO YOUR YOUR LEADERSHIP. 01:30:31.192 --> 01:30:32.493 AND THANK YOU ALSO FOR LEADING 01:30:32.560 --> 01:30:35.763 IN IN CONGRESS IN WASHINGTON. 01:30:35.830 --> 01:30:36.931 BEFORE I CONTINUE MY COMMENTS, 01:30:36.998 --> 01:30:38.833 I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO MY 01:30:38.900 --> 01:30:42.236 COLLEAGUES TO SAY A FEW WORDS. 01:30:42.303 --> 01:30:44.005 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIRMAN. 01:30:44.071 --> 01:30:45.473 CHAIRWOMAN, I THINK IT'S BECOME 01:30:45.540 --> 01:30:46.641 OBVIOUS THROUGH THIS HEARING 01:30:46.707 --> 01:30:49.110 WHY I WANTED TO BE ON A 01:30:49.177 --> 01:30:52.313 GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION TO THE. 01:30:52.380 --> 01:30:53.748 WELL, FIRST OF ALL, MR. LEE, 01:30:53.815 --> 01:30:55.550 THANK YOU FOR ACKNOWLEDGING 01:30:55.616 --> 01:30:57.218 SOME OF THE THINGS I WAS TRYING 01:30:57.285 --> 01:30:59.520 TO SHARE TODAY. I'M GLAD TO 01:30:59.587 --> 01:31:01.689 HEAR THAT WE'RE MOVING TOWARDS 01:31:01.756 --> 01:31:03.858 THAT DIRECTION. AND CERTAINLY 01:31:03.925 --> 01:31:05.993 PECHANGA IS AN EXAMPLE, YOU 01:31:06.060 --> 01:31:08.129 KNOW, OF LONG HISTORY AND 01:31:08.196 --> 01:31:10.331 SUCCESS. TO THE CHAIRMAN. IT'S 01:31:10.398 --> 01:31:12.867 SO WONDERFUL TO SEE YOU. YOU 01:31:12.934 --> 01:31:14.602 KNOW, MY COMMUNITY, WE SAY OLD 01:31:14.669 --> 01:31:17.205 DOGS DON'T DIE FOR YOU, MY 01:31:17.271 --> 01:31:19.240 BROTHER. WE'RE NOT WE'RE 01:31:19.307 --> 01:31:22.143 CERTAINLY NOT DOGS. BUT WE I 01:31:22.210 --> 01:31:24.378 KNOW THAT YOU BELIEVE ANCESTORS 01:31:24.445 --> 01:31:26.214 AND AND THOSE OUR ELDERS THAT 01:31:26.280 --> 01:31:29.016 WE RESPECT, AND I REALLY I 01:31:29.083 --> 01:31:30.952 DON'T YOU KNOW, WE SHOULDN'T 01:31:31.018 --> 01:31:32.954 TAKE LIGHTLY OF CHAIRMAN 01:31:33.020 --> 01:31:36.224 MERCADO'S PRESENCE HERE. YOU'VE 01:31:36.290 --> 01:31:39.794 BEEN HERE MANY, MANY YEARS. Ó 01:31:39.861 --> 01:31:41.996 WAS A PART OF THE START OF THIS 01:31:42.063 --> 01:31:43.397 WHOLE CHANGE OF WHAT WE SEE 01:31:43.464 --> 01:31:45.600 TODAY IN CALIFORNIA AND HAVE 01:31:45.666 --> 01:31:47.768 HELPED ACROSS THIS NATION. AND 01:31:47.835 --> 01:31:49.203 WE'RE ACTUALLY FORTUNATE THAT 01:31:49.270 --> 01:31:51.072 WE HAVE YOU IN CALIFORNIA, THAT 01:31:51.138 --> 01:31:52.640 YOU CAN SPEAK TO THE THINGS 01:31:52.707 --> 01:31:54.942 THAT YOU MENTIONED AND ALL THE 01:31:55.009 --> 01:31:56.143 THINGS THAT WE'VE LEARNED HERE 01:31:56.210 --> 01:31:57.812 AND HOW THAT'S NOW BEING 01:31:57.879 --> 01:32:00.581 TRANSLATED. BUT A LOT OF WHAT 01:32:00.648 --> 01:32:01.582 I'VE LEARNED, I'VE LEARNED 01:32:01.649 --> 01:32:03.918 BECAUSE OF KNOWING YOU AND, AND 01:32:03.985 --> 01:32:06.454 YOUR WORK AT PECHANGA. AND I 01:32:06.520 --> 01:32:10.057 HAVE NOTHING BUT RESPECT. AND 01:32:10.124 --> 01:32:11.158 REALLY THANK YOU FOR WHAT 01:32:11.225 --> 01:32:12.660 YOU'VE DONE FOR US AND ACROSS 01:32:12.727 --> 01:32:15.796 THE COUNTRY, LONG, LONG HISTORY, 01:32:15.863 --> 01:32:18.366 FAMILY, SO MANY PEOPLE INVOLVED. 01:32:18.432 --> 01:32:19.834 I CAN TELL I'M EMBARRASSING YOU 01:32:19.901 --> 01:32:21.535 A LITTLE BIT, BUT THAT'S OKAY. 01:32:21.602 --> 01:32:22.637 IT'S GOOD TO BE EMBARRASSED 01:32:22.703 --> 01:32:28.342 EVERY NOW AND THEN, BUT BUT IN 01:32:28.409 --> 01:32:29.810 CLOSING, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A 01:32:29.877 --> 01:32:32.380 FINAL COMMENT ABOUT PECHANGA 01:32:32.446 --> 01:32:35.549 AND THE WORK. YOU KNOW, THERE'S 01:32:35.616 --> 01:32:37.585 A LOT OF CORPORATIONS TODAY 01:32:37.652 --> 01:32:39.720 THAT WE COULD SAY GOOD THINGS 01:32:39.787 --> 01:32:41.355 THAT ARE HAPPENING, NOT SO GOOD 01:32:41.422 --> 01:32:42.790 THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING. 01:32:42.857 --> 01:32:44.492 YOU'RE NOT A PART OF A 01:32:44.558 --> 01:32:46.394 LEADERSHIP FOR 31 YEARS, AND 01:32:46.460 --> 01:32:49.664 THE SUCCESS THAT YOU HAVE 01:32:49.730 --> 01:32:50.631 DEMONSTRATED WITHOUT DOING A 01:32:50.698 --> 01:32:53.234 WHOLE LOT OF GOOD THINGS. AND, 01:32:53.301 --> 01:32:55.469 YOU KNOW, OUR HATS GO OFF TO 01:32:55.536 --> 01:32:57.939 YOU. AND I JUST WANT TO SAY 01:32:58.005 --> 01:33:00.074 PUBLICLY, THANK YOU AND KEEP 01:33:00.141 --> 01:33:02.944 DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING. WE'VE 01:33:03.010 --> 01:33:04.712 TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT, 01:33:04.779 --> 01:33:06.881 BUT PECHANGA WAS ONE IN THE 01:33:06.948 --> 01:33:08.749 EARLY DAYS THAT UNDERSTOOD THAT 01:33:08.816 --> 01:33:10.518 THEIR SUCCESS ALSO NEEDED TO BE 01:33:10.584 --> 01:33:11.986 TRANSLATED TO OTHER TRIBES THAT 01:33:12.053 --> 01:33:14.422 DON'T HAVE GAMING FACILITIES, 01:33:14.488 --> 01:33:16.290 JUST SO MANY LANDMARK POLICIES 01:33:16.357 --> 01:33:18.759 THAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED TODAY 01:33:18.826 --> 01:33:20.594 WERE ACTUALLY REALLY STARTED 01:33:20.661 --> 01:33:22.930 MANY DECADES AGO. SO THANK YOU, 01:33:22.997 --> 01:33:25.599 MY BROTHER, AND IT'S A PLEASURE 01:33:25.666 --> 01:33:29.503 TO SUPPORT THIS RATIFICATION 01:33:29.570 --> 01:33:30.671 AND NEW AMENDMENTS COMING 01:33:30.738 --> 01:33:35.009 FORWARD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 01:33:35.076 --> 01:33:36.110 ANYBODY ELSE WISHING TO. MADAM 01:33:36.177 --> 01:33:37.345 CHAIR, CAN I RESPOND? SENATOR'S 01:33:37.411 --> 01:33:40.047 REMARKS. YEAH. WELL, THANK YOU 01:33:40.114 --> 01:33:41.849 VERY MUCH FOR THOSE REMARKS. I 01:33:41.916 --> 01:33:45.419 JUST ONE THIS OLD DOG HAS A 01:33:45.486 --> 01:33:46.821 MENISCUS ISSUE IN HIS RIGHT 01:33:46.887 --> 01:33:50.958 KNEE, BUT BEYOND THAT, THOUGH, 01:33:51.025 --> 01:33:54.829 I DO APPRECIATE THE I THINK THE 01:33:54.895 --> 01:33:56.998 LONGEVITY OF YOUR YOUR 01:33:57.064 --> 01:33:58.165 UNDERSTANDING OF TRIBAL GAMING 01:33:58.232 --> 01:34:01.268 HERE IN CALIFORNIA, HAVING BEEN 01:34:01.335 --> 01:34:02.970 WITH US ON, ON BASICALLY THE 01:34:03.037 --> 01:34:06.741 GROUND FLOOR. AND SO THE, THE 01:34:06.807 --> 01:34:09.176 PART ABOUT TAKING CERTAIN 01:34:09.243 --> 01:34:11.679 POLICY ELEMENTS OF THESE 01:34:11.746 --> 01:34:15.316 COMPACTS AND TRIBAL GAMING FOR 01:34:15.383 --> 01:34:16.717 GRANTED, THAT'S A THING, YOU 01:34:16.784 --> 01:34:18.519 KNOW, THERE'S, THERE'S A WHOLE 01:34:18.586 --> 01:34:20.755 GENERATION OF, OF ADULT TRIBAL 01:34:20.821 --> 01:34:22.523 MEMBERS WHO GREW UP BEFORE WE 01:34:22.590 --> 01:34:23.958 HAD OUR FIRST COMPACT, WHO WERE 01:34:24.025 --> 01:34:25.760 BORN AFTER THAT FIRST COMPACT. 01:34:25.826 --> 01:34:28.996 AND, AND SO IT'S A CONSTANT 01:34:29.063 --> 01:34:31.132 EDUCATION, I THINK, FOR ALL 01:34:31.198 --> 01:34:32.233 CALIFORNIANS. BUT WE'RE HERE. 01:34:32.299 --> 01:34:35.503 WE'RE HERE FOR IT. AND WE WE'RE 01:34:35.569 --> 01:34:37.605 NOT LETTING UP ON THE GAS AS 01:34:37.671 --> 01:34:39.807 LONG AS THE ECONOMY IS, IS 01:34:39.874 --> 01:34:42.309 DECENT ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE. 01:34:42.376 --> 01:34:43.677 THANK YOU. I JUST WANTED TO SEE 01:34:43.744 --> 01:34:46.313 IF TROUBLE. YOU'RE GOOD. I'M 01:34:46.380 --> 01:34:50.284 JUST GRATEFUL. HAS ACTUALLY 01:34:50.351 --> 01:34:52.319 DONE AS EVIDENCE TODAY. WE JUST 01:34:52.386 --> 01:34:54.855 HAVE AN AMAZING LINE OF TRIBES 01:34:54.922 --> 01:34:56.690 ACROSS THE STATE WHO TRULY, 01:34:56.757 --> 01:34:58.092 TRULY TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY 01:34:58.159 --> 01:35:00.661 OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AS WELL AS 01:35:00.728 --> 01:35:01.662 PHILANTHROPIC WORK. THAT IS 01:35:01.729 --> 01:35:02.763 JUST PHENOMENAL, AND I DON'T 01:35:02.830 --> 01:35:03.964 THINK WE WOULD HAVE THE SUCCESS 01:35:04.031 --> 01:35:06.434 THAT WE DO WITHIN THOSE 01:35:06.500 --> 01:35:08.235 COMMUNITIES IF IT WEREN'T FOR 01:35:08.302 --> 01:35:10.037 LEADERSHIP THAT IS UPSTANDING 01:35:10.104 --> 01:35:12.206 AND REALLY UNDERSTAND BOTH THE 01:35:12.273 --> 01:35:14.341 HUMANITY AND ALSO THE 01:35:14.408 --> 01:35:15.843 APPRECIATION OF CULTURE, 01:35:15.910 --> 01:35:17.211 MAINTAINING THAT AND MOVING 01:35:17.278 --> 01:35:19.046 FORWARD. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR 01:35:19.113 --> 01:35:20.448 PRESENTATION. THANK YOU FOR THE 01:35:20.514 --> 01:35:22.116 THE ADVOCACY AND THANK YOU FOR 01:35:22.183 --> 01:35:23.384 THE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE LOCAL 01:35:23.451 --> 01:35:24.852 COMMUNITIES. THANK YOU. AND I'M 01:35:24.919 --> 01:35:25.386 EXCITED TO HEAR ABOUT. I 01:35:25.453 --> 01:35:27.354 HAVEN'T TOURED YOUR SCHOOL YET, 01:35:27.421 --> 01:35:29.156 BUT I WOULD BE HAPPY TO TOUR 01:35:29.223 --> 01:35:31.258 YOUR SCHOOL. CURIOUS TO SEE, 01:35:31.325 --> 01:35:32.760 HAPPY TO HAVE YOU AND ALL OF 01:35:32.827 --> 01:35:35.229 YOU COME OUT. OKAY. WELL, THANK 01:35:35.296 --> 01:35:37.398 YOU FOR THAT. WELL, I HAVE 01:35:37.465 --> 01:35:39.166 TOURED YOUR SCHOOLS. YOU KNOW, 01:35:39.233 --> 01:35:40.634 FIRST OF ALL, I WENT WHEN I WAS, 01:35:40.701 --> 01:35:42.503 YOU KNOW, EVERYONE KNOWS I'M A 01:35:42.570 --> 01:35:43.637 FORMER TEACHER. SO I WENT TO 01:35:43.704 --> 01:35:45.506 TOUR SCHOOLS AND I FOUND VERY 01:35:45.573 --> 01:35:46.574 INTERESTING. AND TELL ME IF 01:35:46.640 --> 01:35:47.875 THAT'S STILL THE CASE. YOU 01:35:47.942 --> 01:35:50.010 HIRED TEACHERS THAT WERE NOT 01:35:50.077 --> 01:35:51.145 LITERATE IN THE LANGUAGE AND 01:35:51.212 --> 01:35:53.380 THEY HAD TO LEARN TO TEACH. SO 01:35:53.447 --> 01:35:55.082 YOU TOOK ALL THE TEACHERS, AND 01:35:55.149 --> 01:35:57.184 THAT'S PRETTY TO ME. INCREDIBLE. 01:35:57.251 --> 01:35:59.753 THAT'S IT WAS JUST I WAS 01:35:59.820 --> 01:36:01.222 THINKING OF MYSELF AS AN 01:36:01.288 --> 01:36:02.523 EDUCATOR. IT'S HARD ENOUGH TO 01:36:02.590 --> 01:36:04.358 TEACH A REGULAR ENGLISH 01:36:04.425 --> 01:36:05.493 CLASSROOM. AND THESE TEACHERS 01:36:05.559 --> 01:36:06.894 THAT I'VE WITNESSED TEACH YOUR 01:36:06.961 --> 01:36:08.729 CLASSES WERE EXTRAORDINARY. BUT 01:36:08.796 --> 01:36:11.232 I WANTED TO ALSO, AGAIN, JUST 01:36:11.298 --> 01:36:11.932 CONGRATULATE YOU ON YOUR 01:36:11.999 --> 01:36:13.701 LEADERSHIP. YES. 31 YEARS AND 01:36:13.767 --> 01:36:15.202 LEADING AT THE NATIONAL 01:36:15.269 --> 01:36:16.604 CONGRESS IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE. 01:36:16.670 --> 01:36:18.472 SO THANK YOU FOR TAKING YOUR 01:36:18.539 --> 01:36:20.674 EXPERTISE. BUT I WANT TO JUST 01:36:20.741 --> 01:36:22.476 TO ADD ALSO, CLEARLY, I'VE HAD 01:36:22.543 --> 01:36:24.178 A LOT OF JOBS AS A FORMER 01:36:24.245 --> 01:36:26.013 COUNCIL MEMBER. I JUST WANT TO 01:36:26.080 --> 01:36:27.181 SAY HOW THANKFUL ALL THE LOCAL 01:36:27.248 --> 01:36:28.149 MUNICIPALITIES CONTINUE TO BE, 01:36:28.215 --> 01:36:30.017 NOT JUST WITH PECHANGA, BUT ALL 01:36:30.084 --> 01:36:32.119 OF THE TRIBES HERE TODAY. I 01:36:32.186 --> 01:36:34.188 KNOW WHAT YOU BRING TO THE 01:36:34.255 --> 01:36:35.689 TABLE IN TERMS OF RESOURCES. 01:36:35.756 --> 01:36:37.525 WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT 7 MILLION 01:36:37.591 --> 01:36:39.693 IN SCHOLARSHIPS. I WAS ONE OF 01:36:39.760 --> 01:36:41.128 THE RECIPIENTS IN THE EARLY 01:36:41.195 --> 01:36:42.930 YEARS OF BEING A TEACHER AND A 01:36:42.997 --> 01:36:44.698 COUNCIL MEMBER, SO I KNOW ALL 01:36:44.765 --> 01:36:46.167 OF THEM FROM BARONA AND ALL 01:36:46.233 --> 01:36:48.736 THESE OTHER TRIBES. YOU ALSO GO 01:36:48.802 --> 01:36:50.471 OUTSIDE YOUR RESERVATION TO 01:36:50.538 --> 01:36:52.373 SUPPORT, YOU KNOW, LOW INCOME 01:36:52.439 --> 01:36:54.074 AND OTHER STRUGGLING STUDENTS 01:36:54.141 --> 01:36:56.243 OUTSIDE YOUR TRIBE. SO THAT'S 01:36:56.310 --> 01:36:58.379 VERY, YOU KNOW, WE THANK YOU AS 01:36:58.445 --> 01:36:59.847 TEACHERS, AS COMMUNITY MEMBERS. 01:36:59.914 --> 01:37:01.549 SO TO ALL OF YOU, AS WE 01:37:01.615 --> 01:37:02.816 CONCLUDE THIS HEARING, THANK 01:37:02.883 --> 01:37:04.685 YOU FOR THE JOBS YOU CREATED. I 01:37:04.752 --> 01:37:05.819 STARTED MAKING A LIST OF ALL 01:37:05.886 --> 01:37:07.087 THE JOBS THAT YOU'VE MENTIONED, 01:37:07.154 --> 01:37:08.822 YOU KNOW, 4600 AND ANOTHER 01:37:08.889 --> 01:37:10.457 TRIBE. I MEAN, IT IS INCREDIBLE. 01:37:10.524 --> 01:37:11.825 SO THIS IS A GREAT PARTNERSHIP, 01:37:11.892 --> 01:37:13.027 BUT I ALSO WANT TO TAKE THE 01:37:13.093 --> 01:37:14.895 TIME TO THANK THE GOVERNOR. MR. 01:37:14.962 --> 01:37:16.063 LEE, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR 01:37:16.130 --> 01:37:18.032 WORK ON THIS AND FOR BEING HERE 01:37:18.098 --> 01:37:19.833 TODAY TO PRESENT ON ALL THE 01:37:19.900 --> 01:37:21.035 TRIBAL COMPACTS. AND I JUST 01:37:21.101 --> 01:37:23.137 WANT TO SAY THAT I WILL TOUR 01:37:23.204 --> 01:37:24.405 AGAIN. IT'S BEEN A LITTLE WHILE. 01:37:24.471 --> 01:37:26.440 AND TO EVERYONE THAT CAME TODAY, 01:37:26.507 --> 01:37:27.608 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND 01:37:27.675 --> 01:37:29.009 THANK YOU FOR YOUR 01:37:29.076 --> 01:37:30.811 PRESENTATIONS. AND THIS 01:37:30.878 --> 01:37:32.213 CONCLUDES THE SENATE 01:37:32.279 --> 01:37:33.681 ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE. THE 01:37:33.747 --> 01:37:35.449 MEETING IS ADJOURNED. THANK YOU. 01:37:35.516 --> 01:37:54.101 HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY. THANKS.