NEW MEXICO GAMING CONTROL BOARD Special Board Meeting July 8th & 9th, 2013 MINUTES

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1 NEW MEXICO GAMING CONTROL BOARD Special Board Meeting July 8th & 9th, 2013 MINUTES The Board of Directors of the New Mexico Gaming Control Board (Board) conducted a Special Board meeting at Gaming Control Board Headquarters, 4900 Alameda Blvd. NE. Chairman Jeff Landers called the meeting to order at approximately 9:30 a.m., Monday July 8, Due notice was published in accordance with the Gaming Control Act and the New Mexico Gaming Control Board Open Meetings Resolution and Chairman Landers declared a quorum. Present were: Commissioner Carl Londene, Chairman Jeff Landers, Commissioner Rob Doughty, Commissioner Maniaci and Commissioner Paulette Becker. Acting Executive Director/General Counsel Frank Baca was also in attendance. Closed Executive Session. Chairman Landers entertained a motion to go into closed executive session for the purpose of discussing licensing matters and other approvals and discussions as permitted by the exceptions of the Open Meetings Act. (Closed pursuant to section (H), NMSA 1978): S. Maniaci. Second: P. Becker. Vote: 5-0. A roll call vote was taken and all voted to go into closed executive session: C. Londene, R. Doughty, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. 1

2 Chairman Landers: The motion passes unanimously and we will go into closed session. Chairman Landers entertained a motion to go back into open session. R. Doughty. Second: S. Maniaci. Vote: 5-0. C. Londene, R. Doughty, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. Chairman Landers certified that only those matters contained on the agenda for the closed session were discussed during the closed session. For the record all members of the Gaming Control Board are present. Chairman Landers entertained a motion to approve the agenda. R. Doughty. Second: C. Londene. Vote: 5-0. All voted in favor of the motion: C. Londene, R. Doughty, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. Chairman Landers: We will take some items out of order and now go to Item B-3 Miscellaneous Matters: Consideration of approval of Zia Park universal players club program. Given the events of the day and what we are going to need to accomplish in the course of the day, the folk from Zia Park wanted to do a powerpoint presentation I didn t want them to have to make the trip up today so they are going to come up for the special meeting that we ll be having on the 11 th. Chairman Landers entertained a motion to defer item B-3 until the July 11 th special meeting of the Board. P. Becker. Second: S. Maniaci. Vote: 5-0. All voted in favor of the motion: C. Londene, R. Doughty, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. 2

3 Chairman Landers: Item B2 the approval of a manufacturer s license for Global Cash Access. Commissioner Doughty moved to grant the license with the following condition that the manufacturer must pay, in full, all licensing and investigation fees and costs arising out of the gaming license application within 30 days of receipt of a final accounting of such fees and costs from the Board or according to the terms of a payment plan approved by the Board or its designee. Second: C. Londene. Vote: 5-0. All voted in favor of the motion: C. Londene, R. Doughty, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. Commissioner Landers: Item B1 a thru d. Chairman Landers entertained a motion to return to closed executive session for purposes of discussing the licensing matters on the agenda with respect to items B1 a thru d. R. Doughty. Second: S. Maniaci. Vote: 5-0. All voted in favor of the motion: C. Londene, R. Doughty, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. Chairman Landers entertained a motion to go back into open session. P. Becker. Second: S. Maniaci. Vote: 4-0. C. Londene, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. For the record all Board members with the exception of Commissioner Doughty are in attendance. Commissioner Doughty is excused he had a business matter that he had to attend to with his law firm. 3

4 Chairman Landers: It s 1:45 p.m. on July 8 th during the closed session the Board went out to the Downs to conduct an inspection of the facility due to a power failure last night there were some issues that created some additional technical work for one of the contractors and they re going to need the balance of the day and probably into the afternoon tomorrow to complete that work. Chairman Landers certified that only those matters, the licensing matter in particular involving the Downs at Albuquerque were discussed during the closed session and during inspection. Chairman Landers entertained a motion that this statement be made a part of the minutes of this meeting. C. Londene. Second: S. Maniaci. Vote: 4-0. C. Londene, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. Chairman Landers: I would propose that the Board recess this open meeting and reconvene tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. Commissioner Becker moved to recess the open meeting and reconvene tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. Second: C. Londene. Vote: 4-0. C. Londene, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. Chairman Landers entertained a motion to recess this meeting and to reconvene the closed session of the Board. C. Londene. Second: P. Becker. Vote: 4-0. C. Londene, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. 4

5 Chairman Landers: The open session of the Gaming Control Board is now in recess until tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. and the closed meeting will reconvene. Chairman Landers: It is 5:20 p.m. on July 9, 2013 we are reconvening the open session of the New Mexico Gaming Control Board. We appreciate everyone s patience, it has taken the Board a little bit longer than we thought it would to get everything that we needed to get together to be able to move forward on licensing items B1-a thru d. Chairman Landers: entertained a motion to reconvene the open session. P. Becker. Second: S. Maniaci. Vote: 5-0. C. Londene, R. Doughty, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. For the record all members of the Gaming Control Board are present. Chairman Landers certified that the only matters discussed in the closed session both yesterday afternoon and today were those matter enumerated on the agenda for the licensing matter B1 a thru d on the agenda. Chairman Landers entertained a motion that this certification statement be made part of the minutes of this meeting. S. Maniaci. Second: R. Doughty. Vote: 5-0. C. Londene, R. Doughty, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. Chairman Landers: Some of the agenda items will be taken out of order. Item B1-c Approval of associated equipment; the Downs at Albuquerque. I ll read what associated equipment that we will be dealing with, with one motion for approval. Chairman Landers entertained a motion for approval of the following associated equipment: Two ixf i223t Two Pocket Jet Scans with Bar-Code 4 W x 16 D x 14 H Ticket Tally Model for Cashier Window and Vault with ticket imaging. Interfaces serially with SDS STC Terminal. 5

6 One MPS Model 4115 unit with printer, Two-Pocket Add-on Module, Control Document Station and External Bar-Code Scanner. Used for soft count. One Reconditioned 4096 used to strap down MPS cassettes One ifx i400 Jet Scan Seven Pocket Vertical with Printer and Ticket Processing 29 W x 17 D x 30 H. Used to strap down MPS cassettes and as back up to MPS and kiosk processing. 10 ATM Machines - 8 located off the gaming floor in the casino and two in the grandstand area 2 Redemption Kiosks, Model CXC jackpot Exchange, Model NCR 4-pck Dispenser Bally SDS System Commissioner Doughty moved to approve the associated equipment for the Downs at Albuquerque as read by Chairman Landers. Second: C. Londene. Vote: 5-0. C. Londene, R. Doughty, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. Chairman Landers entertained a motion for approval of the item 1-b Minimum Internal Controls for the Downs at Albuquerque. Commissioner Doughty moved to approve the Minimum Internal Controls for the Downs. Second: C. Londene. Vote: 5-0. C. Londene, R. Doughty, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. 6

7 Chairman Landers: The first variance request is a variance request for the exchange room. Commissioner Doughty moved to approve the variance request. Second: P. Becker. Vote: 5-0. C. Londene, R. Doughty, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. Chairman Landers: The second variance request that relates to the TITO tickets to allow the scanning of those so they don t have to be retained as long. Commissioner Doughty moved to approve the variance request on the TITO tickets. Second: C. Londene. Vote: 5-0. C. Londene, R. Doughty, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. Chairman Landers: B 1-a facility; the Downs at Albuquerque. It only applies to the slatted wall, the barrier. Commissioner Doughty moved to approve the slatted wall as it meets the requirements of the Gaming Control Act. Second: C. Londene. Vote: 5-0. C. Londene, R. Doughty, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. Chairman Landers: The motion passes unanimously Chairman Landers: The last item is approval of the transfer of the gaming operation to the new licensed premises at the Downs at Albuquerque. 7

8 Commissioner Doughty moved to approve the transfer of the gaming operation to the new licensed premises at the Downs at Albuquerque. Second: S. Maniaci. Chairman Landers: If a majority of votes approve this there will still be some steps that need to be taken in terms of disabling the machines at the current facility and whatever and then we turn it over to Donovan to bring those machines up and when you guys get to a number where you re comfortable and they ve been turned loose by him then it s your business and good luck to you. Frank Baca: The only other thing that we had discussed was the six cameras that were recommended as part of the surveillance. Chairman Landers: I would ask for an amended motion on this. I would request as a friendly amendment that we have a motion to approve the transfer of the gaming operations to the new licensed premises at the Downs at Albuquerque provided that those additional cameras identified on the memo provided by the enforcement staff be in place within 90 days of the approval. Commissioner Doughty amended his motion to approve the transfer of the gaming operation to the new licensed premises at the Downs at Albuquerque provided that those additional cameras identified on the memo provided by the enforcement staff be in place within 90 days of the approval. Second: S. Maniaci. With respect to the motion as amended all voted in favor of the motion. Vote: 5-0. C. Londene, R. Doughty, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. Chairman Landers: The motion passes unanimously 8

9 There being no other business to come before the Board, Chairman Landers entertained a motion to adjourn. R. Doughty. Second: P. Becker. Vote: 5-0. All voted in favor of the motion: C. Londene, R. doughty, J. Landers, S. Maniaci and P. Becker. /s/jeffrey S. Landers, Chairman Date Approved: