equality is for Martin

Luther King and Cubans and not horse bettors and slot machine players.

NY land of unequality enforced by Andrew Cuomo

For Immediate Release: January 22, 2015

Contact: Lee.Park@gaming.ny.gov

          

*** PUBLIC NOTICE AND MEDIA ADVISORY ***

WHAT:            Meeting of the New York State Gaming Commission

WHEN:            Monday, January 26, 2015 at 12:00 p.m. 

WHERE:                     NYS Department of Labor

4^th Floor Commissioner’s Suite

9 Bond Street

Brooklyn, NY

***OPEN PRESS***

·         The meeting will be streamed live on the Gaming Commission’s Web site (www.gaming.ny.gov)

·         As a matter of convenience to ease entry to the meeting location and ensure space is adequate, members of the public or media wishing to attend the meeting in person at the Brooklyn location are encouraged to contact the New York State Gaming Commission’s press office at 518-388-3415 or info@gaming.ny.gov by 5 p.m. on Friday, January 23. All attendees must have valid photo ID to be admitted to the meeting location.

·         The expected agenda and materials relating to matters that are scheduled for discussion in open session may be found at http://www.gaming.ny.gov/pdf/126Meeting%20Booklet-Public.pdf

Meeting Agenda

 

1.    Call to Order and Establishment of Quorum

2.    Consideration of Minutes, Meeting of December 22, 2014

3.    Report of Executive Director

4.    Rulemaking

a.    SGC-28-14-00006-E, Rules Pertaining to Gaming Facility Request for Application and Gaming Facility License Application (Re-Adoption)

b.    Proposed Rulemaking: Prohibited Substances in Thoroughbred Racing

5.    Adjudications

a.    In the Matter of Steven Kazmar

b.    In the Matter of Graham Lewis

6.    New/Old Business

7.    Scheduling of Next Meeting  

8.    Adjournment

HI-

Thanks for the help. The item’s below. I’d be happy to mail you a copy, if you give me a mailing address.

Claude Solnik

(631) 913-4244

Long Island Business News

2150 Smithtown Ave.

Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348 

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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012

Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.