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Lake Elmo updates gambling ordinance but council stops short of dedicating proceeds to sheriff
Summary
The council adopted Ordinance 2025-017 updating the city's lawful gambling code and approved a publication summary, but a separate motion to allocate gambling proceeds to the Washington County Sheriff's Office failed on a 1-3 vote; council left the 10% language in the ordinance without enforcing a dedicated allocation.
Lake Elmo's City Council on May 20 adopted an update to the city's lawful gambling ordinance and approved a publication summary, but declined to commit collected proceeds to the county sheriff's contract.
Finance coordinator Kramer told the council the ordinance, originally adopted in 1997, required modernization and added a "trade area" definition describing where gambling proceeds may be spent. Kramer said the city has created a gambling fund and will report receipts and uses; staff tentatively budgeted $20,000 in gambling revenues for 2026 and said they had collected about $6,500 to date from organizations including the Oakdale Athletic Association.
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