[3] However, by 2016 the workers who were making an average of $12 an hour were complaining that it was too low with the salaries at nearby Oaks Card Club being $14 and Graton Casino also hovering around $14 and thus asked for a 12% wage hike.
[4] Nevertheless, the tribe of 350 people was reported to be paying its unionized employees $9.50 an hour on average just 5 years earlier.
[9][10][11] Three men were arrested and charged with armed robbery and associated crimes; two were eventually sentenced to a combined total of thirty-one years in state prison, while the third was released for lack of evidence.
It was believed this would alleviate parking in the surrounding neighborhoods and be of economic benefit to the city of San Pablo, which receives over 50% of its funding from casino revenues.
[14] In 2019, with the help of Congressman Jared Huffman, the tribe was seeking to establish a non-gambling homeland nearby to Windsor in Sonoma County.