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Item No: 07G <br />Meeting Date: September 24, 2007 <br />Type of Business: CB <br />City Administrator Review: _____ <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Desaree Crane, Assistant to the City Administrator <br /> <br />Item Title/Subject: Resolution 7165 Approving a One-Day Charitable <br />Gambling Permit for Friends of St. Paul to Sponsor a <br />Raffle for the Patrick Holmes Benefit Scheduled for <br />October 4, 2007 at the Mounds View Community Center <br /> <br />Background <br /> <br />On August 1, 2007, Patrick Holmes, a Mounds View Resident lost his life in the I-35W Bridge <br />Collapse. A benefit for Patrick Holmes is scheduled for Thursday, October 4th at the Mounds View <br />Community Center. This benefit will consist of a Spaghetti Dinner, Silent Auctions and a Raffle. <br />Proceeds from this benefit will go directly to the Holmes Family here in Mounds View. <br /> <br />Discussion <br /> <br />It came to the attention of Staff this morning that this benefit is conducting a raffle without an <br />authorized gambling permit. Staff spoke to the organizer of this event, Mr. John Munich, and <br />indicated to him that he needed a gambling permit to include City Council authorization to conduct <br />this raffle. Unfortunately, Mr. Munich did not know that a gambling permit was required. Since the <br />organizers of this benefit are not a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization, the organizers had to find <br />someone to run the raffle. They were able to get a sponsor to run the raffle, Friends of St. Paul <br />Baseball. <br /> <br />Friends of St. Paul Baseball is a non-profit, 501 (c)(3) organization (non-profit status attached) are <br />dedicated to enhancing the opportunity for participation in the game of baseball within the City of <br />St. Paul by raising funds to update and enhance existing baseball fields, make capital <br />improvements and build additional baseball facilities if warranted. Baseball was Patrick Holmes <br />passion and was active participant in youth sports to include coaching youth baseball. Therefore, <br />having the Friends of St. Paul Baseball sponsor this raffle is very fitting. All proceeds to this raffle <br />will go directly to the Holmes Family, who are current residents of Mounds View. In accordance <br />with Mounds View City Code 502.13 subd. 2 (c), a licensed organization conducting lawful gambling <br />within the City shall expend seventy five percent (75%) of its expenditures for lawful purposes <br />conducted or located within the City's trade area. The City's "trade area" is defined as, and limited to, <br />Mounds View, Spring Lake Park, Blaine, Shoreview, Arden Hills, New Brighton and Fridley. Since <br />this event will be at the Mounds View Community Center and is directly benefiting a family in Mounds <br />View, Staff feels that this raffle is within parameters of the City Code. This organization also has 30 <br />active members, which also meets the requirement of the City Code. Friends of St. Paul Baseball will <br />be managing and running this raffle. <br /> <br />Recommendation <br /> <br />Staff recommends approving Friends of St. Paul Baseball for a One-Day Charitable Gambling Permit <br />(Raffle) on October 4, 2007 at the Mounds View Community Center. Friends of St. Paul Baseball will <br />be submitting the application and this resolution to the Minnesota State Gambling Board in person <br />this week. <br /> <br />Respectfully submitted, <br />Desaree M. Crane