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MINUTES City Council May 27, 1987 Bingo Wylie reported that the reason is the financial terms of the current (Cont.) lease are favorable. LaValle reported that Jan Sherman has indicated that the lease Servants of Mary has negotiated on an individual basis with Short is basically the same as the current lease with LCCB. Wylie reported that DAC, Lions, MRID, and Humane Society are better off with the lease in place than a lease that would be rewritten with Movers Warehouse directly. The benefits of the current lease are that improvements would not be paid for by the charities, the charities would have the income from concessions. Wylie repeated the request for the information regarding the factual assumptions listed in Peg Bunch's letter to the City, and stated that in his conversations with Peg Bunch it sounded like these questions had been answered. Wylie felt that if the City is going to veto the license aoplications it was unfair to do so on the basis of unproven assumptions. Fahey stated that the licenses could be vetoed on the basis of incomplete information. Fahey pointed out the numerous meetings held and the lack of information supplied at these meetings. 4lylie replied that information has been supplied in a timely fashion, and pointed out that the Compliance Review 6roup asked for information on Friday, which was supplied Tuesday morning. Wylie also stated that he felt the Attorney General's opinion would be the same if asked about the involvement of a trusteeship's holding the lease and if asked about Movers Warehouse holding a lease. The opinion would be that it is proper as long as the trusteeship or Movers Warehouse is not involved in bingo. l~lylie felt that this question had been answered, and the organization as currently managed is O.K. John Benson, attorney representing Servants of Mary and St. Joseph's Society, appeared before the Council and reported that the leases submitted for his charities thatwere negotiated directly with D1overs Warehouse was conditioned upon the lease with LCCB becoming null and void. Benson reported that the other four charities have new leases with the trustee and for some reason such a lease was not offered Servants of P1ary or St. Joseph's. Therefore, in order to file renewal applications in a timely fashion, these two charities signed leases with Movers Warehouse. Qenson reported that there have been problems with the management of LCCB and stated that he is not sure what facilitated the censoring of the gambling managers for Servants of P1ary and St. Joseph's. Benson stated that later the same evening the censoring action took place, a meeting was held with the other attorneys. Benson also Page -21-