Miami-Dade voters have been given another chance to voice their support for the much coveted slot machines at pari-mutuels, if and only if Broward County slot machines doll out tax dollars without pressing onto the roads and other services. The Legislature is required to pass a law by the end of 2006, which will allow slot machines to be installed at four Broward pari-mutuels.
Slots were rejected by Miami-Dade voters at the county’s three pari-mutuel facilities at the beginning of this month. The earliest possible target year for the second slots poll in Miami-Dade is the 2007. Miami-Dade County Commission Chairman Joe Martinez said he is confident slot machines to have the capacity for a positive effect on Miami-Dade community. The prospects, sketched by the various studies conducted on this issue display rather reassuring figures of 18,200 jobs and $438 million for the school’s benefit in the first full year.
Martinez plans his further moves, once slots are infused in pari-mutuels. He will then ask the Miami-Dade government to cooperate with the Florida Department of Transportation and Broward government agencies to create traffic counts, adjacent to Broward’s three tracks and its jai alai fronton.
