COLUMBUS — State ballot board officials will wrap up work today outlining three issues that Ohio voters will decide this November, including a high-profile, controversial plan to authorize four casinos in the Buckeye State.

The ballot board will put finishing touches on the pro and con arguments voters will see on the ballot issues. Grabbing the most attention so far is Issue 3, a plan to bring casinos to Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo proposed by Penn National Gaming and Cleveland Cavaliers majority owner Dan Gilbert.

Earlier this week, ballot board officials, in finalizing the ballot language, added a clause that casino backers wanted. The addition explains that a $50 million license fee for each casino would be used for job training and that $250 million would be invested in each gambling facility.

Don McTigue, an attorney for the pro-casino group, said the provision was key in highlighting the economic development arguments for the issue.

“It was very important that voters know that casino owners would be required to make $1 billion in private investment in this project,” McTigue said.

But those fighting the casino issue scored points as well.

Sandy Theis, spokeswoman for the anti-casino TruthPAC, said her group was happy that the ballot issue will mention that Ohio casinos will have to adopt any games added by bordering states with casino gambling.

“You don’t know what one of the goofy border states is going to do,” she said. “And why should we cede control of what goes in Ohio to other states?”

Opponents of the casinos also were pleased that the ballot language makes it clear the backers will have a casino monopoly in Ohio.

Issue 3 is completely separate from plans by Gov. Ted Strickland to place up to 17,500 slot machines at Ohio’s seven horse-race tracks to raise $933 million over the next two years to balance the state’s budget.

Operating rules for the racetrack slot operations were signed by Strickland this week, including a provision that allows 18-year-olds to play the racetrack slots.

Largely flying under voter radar are two other less-controversial issues that will appear on the November ballot. Issue 1 asks voters to approve up to $200 million in bonds to pay for small bonuses to veterans of the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts.

Issue 2 puts before voters the question of whether the state should have a livestock care standards board. That panel would prescribe standards for animal care and well-being while protecting food safety and Ohio agri-business interests.

Opponents of Issue 2 argue that the board would put interests of factory farms ahead of farm animals and was adopted by lawmakers to block national animal-rights groups from advancing reform efforts.