The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation gave the City of Windsor a third-quarter payment of $1,838,165 for hosting Caesars Windsor.
It is the non-tax gaming revenue payment from October to December. To date, Windsor has received more than $15.9 million in non-tax gaming revenue, according to an OLG news release.
“Municipalities are able to improve local programs and infrastructure with revenues from OLG gaming sites,” said finance minister Charles Sousa. “In turn, revenues to the province support continued investment in important Ontario public services like health care and education.”
These payments are made under an equitable formula in the Municipality Contribution Agreement that determines the fee municipalities receive for hosting an OLG gaming facility and are based on an escalating scale of gaming revenue that is consistent across all sites in Ontario.
OLG provides the provincial government with about $2 billion annually, its largest source of non-tax revenue.
