Special Bd. of Aldermen — 08/08/17 Page 2
their stores. | ask that you consider as the legislative body SB191 to put the question to the voters on your
November election. With that, Mr. President, I’d be happy to answer any questions.
President McCarthy
| have just an observation to start with. There’s a background check required for the person operating the
keno establishment, who also has to have a liquor license. Does that imply that we don’t background check
people to get a liquor license?
Director McIntyre
No. It doesn't. It’s clearly duplication. In lots of cases that’s the case.
President McCarthy
We have a resolution on our agenda this evening for a first reading to put the ballot question on. | think the
reason we wanted to get that moving is, as | understand it, we can only put the question on the ballot on our
city election this November. If we didn’t do that, we couldn’t do it until 2 % years from now on the next one.
Director McIntyre
Yes. It’s good news, bad news. Yes, you would wait two years but if you go now, all the jurisdictions around
you have to wait until the spring town elections. Your businesses benefit from the traffic. Our hope is the
benefit to this to support the children in kindergarten and help you folks pay for full day kindergarten. It’s a four
hundred and some odd thousand dollars of new money that will come to Nashua which is obviously a great
benefit. It’s an additional product to sell where a town right near you already does sell, and retail behavior
knows no geography.
Alderman O’Brien
I’m very pleased to see the sellers will be able to get the largest percent. | see it’s all going to come back to
Nashua as a grant of $1,100 per kindergarten pupil. That’s fantastic. Do we get any additional monies from
the sale of kenos or is it going strictly to kindergarten fund?
Director McIntyre
The Constitution, Article 6B, all lottery funds have to go to the education trust fund. The education trust fund is
no longer funded by us. We're a part of it, but not the whole funding of it. It just goes to that and then it is
distributed by the formula by the legislature, how they suggest it every two years.
Alderman O’Brien
If a community chooses not to have keno, do they get any kindergarten funding out of this?
Director McIntyre
They would. | would submit the benefits aren’t just to kindergarten funding. Its other things. If enough
jurisdictions say that, my fear is they are going to rethink that formula because it was certainly a topic of
conversation with the law was passed. The belief is lots of towns would take this, particularly the ones that you
can drive the across the border to Mass. There’s New Hampshire plates in that parking lot who play keno. So,
the short answer is yes, but | think that would be shortsighted.
