ReligiousPreferenceCommission

For Immediate Release: February 19, 2015

Contact: Lee.Park@gaming.ny.gov

          

*** PUBLIC NOTICE AND MEDIA ADVISORY ***

WHAT:            Meeting of the New York State Gaming Commission

WHEN:            Monday, February 23, 2015 at 12:00 p.m. 

WHERE:         Albany Video Conference Location:

                        NYS Division of Budget 1^st Floor Conference Room

Room 131

NYS Capitol

Albany, NY

New York City Video Conference Location:

Empire State Development Corporation

37^th Floor Conference Room

633 Third Avenue

New York, NY 10017

Geneva Video Conference Location:

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Melly Academic Center

First Floor Presentation Room

330 Pulteney Street

Geneva, NY 14456

***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 New York City 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, February 20, 2015. All attendees must have valid photo ID to be admitted to the meeting location.

·         Materials relating to matters that are scheduled for discussion in open session will be posted online prior to the meeting.

Meeting Agenda

 

1.    Call to Order and Establishment of Quorum

2.    Consideration of Minutes, Meeting of January 26, 2015

3.    Report of Executive Director

4.    Rulemaking

a.    Proposed Electronic Transfer of Funds from Special Bell Jar Accounts

5.    Adjudications

a.    In the Matter of Edward Williams

6.    New/Old Business

7.    Scheduling of Next Meeting  

8.    Adjournment

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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.