EconOMIC Facts
The Mill Casino
pays its share of taxes and fees. Annual financial contributions by The Mill to
the community include:
- Over $6 million
annually in Local, State and Federal taxes
- Payments
to the City of North Bend in lieu of property
taxes of approx. $275,000 annually
- The Mill Hotel
participates in the North Bend city Hotel/Motel
tax
- Oversight
fees to the Oregon State Police of $160,000
annually
- Over
$950,000 to date for State Highway 101 improvements
in North Bend
Gaming
revenues from The Mill Casino fund many community programs:
- Funding of
Tribal Member health care in the Tribe’s
5-county service area has eased reliance on both State
and Federal assistance programs since 1997
- The Mill also
donated a generator valued at over $60,000 to the
Port of Coos Bay
- In July 1997,
the Coquille Indian Tribe donated 23 acres to the Barview
Area Charleston Park Association to develop a Sports
Complex…a
contribution valued at over $210,000
- Through calendar
2003, cumulative casino contributions to local non-profit
groups and events have exceeded $24,278.55. Donations
have included funding for a new drug-free teen center;
purchase of a canine for the North Bend Police Department;
and support for such organizations as American Cancer
Society; Boy Scouts; North Bend and Coos Bay sports
programs; DARE; Oregon Music Association; Coos County
Fair & Rodeo;
Curry County Fair & Rodeo and Ducks Unlimited, to
name only a few.
- Since 2001,
the
Coquille Tribal Community Fund has
continued the Tribe’s legacy of community
philanthropy.
Even reservation
property comes with a cost. The Federal Government
did NOT give the casino property to the Coquille Indian
Tribe.
- The Tribe purchased the current casino
site (which had been on the market for three years)
for $2.1 million from a local timber company
- The current reservation
site was also a Tribal purchase, at $574.000
- The 60-acre
property to the north of the casino site was also
purchased by the Tribe from the Weyerhaeuser Corporation,
following lengthy negotiations
For more details on the Tribe's
impact on Coos County, please refer to our Tribal
Impact Study.
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