Budget Implementer Leaves Out $3 Million Annual Disappointment Fee for East Windsor.

The legislature’s 837-page budget implementer bill does not include a $3 million a year consolation prize for East Windsor. State Senator Cathy Osten (D-Sprague) had proposed the annual payment as compensation. The money was intended to compensate East Windsor for the Lamont administration’s successful effort to halt plans to build a slot facility in East Windsor.

The box of slots was a joint undertaking of the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes to divert Connecticut gamblers from the MGM casino in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Osten expressed the hope that the annual payment would be made to East Windsor until the parcel of land on which the Tribal Winds casino was to be build is sold.