Topeka ? Alliance Defense Fund attorneys want the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission to delay its decision on the selection of a casino Sumner County, but the commission doesn’t plan to wait.

Commission spokesman Mike Deines said Friday the casino review board will make its decision about Sumner and Cherokee counties Aug. 21-22, and for Wyandotte and Ford counties Sept. 18-19. Those choices will be forwarded to the commission for background checks and final approval.

“Right now there is no plan for a delay,” Deines said. “The board has a statutory deadline, and there is no indication they will stray from that schedule.”

A law enacted last year allows for a state-owned and -operated casino in each of the counties. The commission expects to complete its background checks in November and December.

The attorneys said their client, Jacque Farnsworth, wasn’t allowed to express her concerns about a proposed casino in her hometown of Mulvane when she appeared before the Mulvane City Council in January.

The defense fund, which calls itself a legal alliance of Christian attorneys, filed a lawsuit against the city of Mulvane in U.S. District Court in Wichita in May on Farnsworth’s behalf. No hearing date has been set.

The Lottery Gaming Facility Review Board conducted hearings Thursday and Friday on three Sumner County casino applicants – Harrah’s Kansas at Mulvane and Marvel Gaming and Penn National Gaming Co. at Wellington.

Deines said Farnsworth was among 80 people who addressed the board Friday at its meeting at Belle Plaine.

The review board will conduct a hearing July 31 in Dodge City on the applications by Dodge City Casino Resort and Butler National Service Corp.

State officials expect to receive at least $200 million a year from the new gambling venture. Casinos are expected to be operating in two or three years.