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Was September 22-24 at the Hard Rock Casino Resort. Attendees received: educational roundtables, training certification tracks, networking, sharing experiences and more.
Promote cooperative relationships among the commissioners
/regulators of tribal gaming enterprises and other organizations;
Promote exchange of thoughts, information and ideas which foster regulatory standards and enforcement that lead to consistent regulatory practices and methods of operations among the NTGC/R members;
Promote educational seminars, which includecommissioners
/regulator training and other related activities; and
The NTGC/R may act as a gaming regulatory advisory group to tribal gaming organizations and others.
Funeral service for Raymundo Casillas:
Viewing - Friday, January 8th, 6-9 pm Rosary (time unknown) Virgen de Guadalupe Church
5445 Calle San Angelo
Guadalupe, AZ 85283
Mass - Saturday, January 9th, 9 am Virgen de Guadalupe Church
5445 Calle San Angelo
Guadalupe, AZ 85283
Burial to follow.
Flowers may be sent to Raymundo’s parent’s residence at the following address:
Raymundo and Elizabeth Casillas
5485 W. Calle Magdalena
Guadalupe, AZ 85283
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posted January 1,2010
Article By Matthew T. Hall,UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Friday, January 1, 2010 at 12:01 a.m.
Barona and officials mum about killings Gaming offices to reopen Monday
Julie Casillas was sprawled on the floor of her Arizona office last week, stuffing a GPS device into the smallest of four boxes, which she wrapped separately and packaged like Russian dolls to give to her husband for Christmas.
Yesterday, she packed something else entirely, loading a rental truck with items from the La Mesa apartment where Ray Casillas, the man killed in a murder-suicide at the Barona Gaming Commission offices Tuesday, had lived this past year.
Donnell Roberts, 38, a commission investigator who lost his job in November, killed Casillas, 43, with two shotgun blasts around 10 a.m. Tuesday, then shot himself.
Investigators remain tight-lipped about the shooting, which Julie Casillas said happened while her husband was contemplating quitting as the commission’s executive director to return to his wife, son and life in Arizona. Click to read the complete story
The Regulatory Tightrope
Originally printed in the September edition of Indian Gaming Magazine
Technical standards, Minimum internal control standards. Environmental, public health & safety standards. Compact provisions. These and the myriad of other federal and, in some cases, state regulations that apply to tribal gaming facilities have a deep and lasting impact on the regulatory structure developed and implemented by tribes and tribal gaming regulatory authorities (TGRAs). Throughout the process of designing the rules and regulations that govern the activities at tribal gaming facilities, it's extremely important for tribal officials and gaming regulators at all levels to keep one work in mind: BALANCE
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The Case For Class II Gaming
Originally printed in the August edition of Indian Gaming Magazine
For many years now, there has been a ongoing debate as to what constitutes a Class II game and how that game is differentiated from Class II games. The National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) has wrested with the issue. Tribal gaming regulators have addressed the matter on numerous fronts (e.g.state and federal venues). Most notably, the federal courts-including the Supreme Court- have provided direction on how to determine the differences between the two classes of gaming.......click to read the article
For more information about NTGC/R, please contact:
Secretary
Barbara Kyser-Collier
Quapaw, OK 74363
P: (918) 919-6030
C: (918) 533-5554
Email: bcollier@quapawtga.com
To get more information about joining NTGC/R please visit our membership page or download our membership brochure. (Membership)
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September 22-24 - NTGC/R Fall conference at the Hard Rock Casino and Resort in Tulsa OK More
June 30 -Michael P. Brown- Assistant Director, Licensing Mohegan Tribal Gaming Commission. Presentation from the 2009 Spring Conference.