Delaware’s Sports and Video Lottery Commission, reacting to track slots getting out the door and running off, have decided on a strategy to close the barn. It is hiring a consultant to help it assess the impact of adding more gaming on existing state revenues, and the study presumably will touch on a proposed new track and racino in Sussex County.
The chairman of the commission, Dennis Rochford, says a consultant could give an unbiased assessment of such impact, and enable the commission “to move forward and have constructive discussion and deliberations.”
If the commission can find an acceptable consultant, local or national, to do the job for less than $50,000, it could appoint them without competitive bidding.
Chances of success in getting a rehearing from the 12-member full Court of Appeals on the decision of a three-judge panel of the court, which declared the Delaware sports betting plan illegal, is remote. Only two of 3,000 cases last year succeeded in getting that accomplished.
(Harness Tracks of America)