07-96-Resolution-Supporting a Senate Bill regarding the Texas Lottery-09/03/1996CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS
RESOLUTION NO. R07-96
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SA]°GER,
TEXAS, SUPPORTING PROPOSED SENATE BILL REGARDING THE
TEXAS LOTTERY
WHEREAS, the Texas Lottery Cammission has conducted the Texas Lottery since its
implementation in 1992; and
WHEREAS, Senator Tom Haywood has proposed a senate bill to be presented in the
1997 legislative session of the Texas Senate that would require the Texas Lottery Commission
to return five cents of every lottery sales dollar to the city where the sales was tnuisacted or to
the county where the sales transaction location was in the unincorporated are of the county; and
WHEREAS, the state lottery ticket sales in Denton County during the calendar year 1995
totaled $34,400,000, and this proposed bill would have returned to the cities mid county of
Denton County a total of $1,720,0006 and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Sanger,
Texas on this day adopted Resolution No. R07-96 approving the acceptance of the proposed
senate bill by Senator Tom Haywood returning five cents from every dollar of the Texas state
lottery ticket sales returned to the cities and counties.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 3rd day of September, 1996
Rosalie Chavez,
lll, Mayor