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ROW #551 · LEG 82 ITEM 8 · DUG (the agreements, boundary) / TESTED NEGATIVE (an Osceola provision)
Both agreements were read for an Osceola provision, and neither contains one — that negative is the finding, and the agreements print at boundary size so the reader can see what was searched. First, the local agreement: by Resolution 4554-16, passed April 11, 2016, the City of South Bend approved its agreement with the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians for the Band's roughly 166-acre site in South Bend (Prairie Avenue / US 31 / Locust Road) — a tribal village of 44 housing units and the Four Winds casino resort. The Band agreed to pay the city annually 2 percent of net win in lieu of property taxes (half to the General Fund, half to community development; floors of $1 million a year at 850–1,699 games and $2 million above 1,700), to fund site development costs, to give St. Joseph County residents — expressly including minority- and women-owned businesses — hiring and purchasing preference, and, while a hotel operates, to contribute tribal resort taxes to the St. Joseph County convention and exhibition fund. Four Winds South Bend opened January 16, 2018 as a Class II facility. Second, the compact: Indiana's first tribal gaming compact, agreed January 2021, ratified by the General Assembly (HB 1055) and signed by Governor Holcomb on April 29, 2021, took the casino to Class III on August 5, 2021 — table games and true slots — on a 20-year term with 10-year renewals, the Band sharing 10 percent of slot win: 8 percent to the state and South Bend's 2 percent continuing under the prior agreement, plus a $1 million education fund for Pokagon citizens; the compact is codified at Indiana Code § 4-29.5, which also caps the South Bend site at 3,403 games.
Osceola is a party to neither instrument, is named in neither, and receives no payment, preference administration, or service obligation under either beyond the county-resident hiring preference any Osceola resident shares with every county resident — printed at exactly that diffuse strength. The banked Native Nations boundary telling stands uncontradicted. Closure: agreements DUG at boundary size; Osceola's own side TESTED NEGATIVE — there is no Osceola side.
Sources:
- City of South Bend, Resolution 4554-16 and Local Agreement record (docs.southbendin.gov), April 2016 — 2% of net win; floors; county hiring preference; convention-fund contribution.
- Indiana Code Title 4, Article 29.5 (the Pokagon compact) — Class III authorization; § 4-29.5-3-4, 3,403-game cap.
- Casino.org and World Casino Directory, January–August 2021 — compact agreement, ratification, Class III opening August 5, 2021; 8% + 2% sharing; $1M education fund.
- Banked Native Nations (Osceola build) — the boundary telling, confirmed, not contradicted.