The city council of Jordan City, Minnesota voted last week to table a vote on new charitable gaming ordinance. The state requires at least 30 percent of a non-profits gross receipts be spent on lawful purposes, while the city requires 75 percent be spent on local schools.
The new ordinance would require that organizations obtain a charitable gambling permit from the city and pay for a new one every three years.
A city council member alleges that German Days, which operates bingo, is not giving the proper amount to the city. He wants to further investigate the non-profit.
Council member Jeremy Goebel claims that German Days instead gives 75 percent of the 30 percent the state requires.
“They are not really doing the spirit of the law,” said.
John Mahoney, chief executive officer of German Days, alleges that the city isn’t passing the ordinance because of the opposition of the city’s fire department, which doesn’t want him to offer a bingo night because it wants to do it.
The fire station was granted a gambling premise permit in 2013.
