Title
Resolution Recognizing the Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild as a Civic Nonprofit Organization Operating in Ann Arbor for the Purpose of Obtaining a Charitable Gaming License
Memorandum
To obtain a charitable gaming license under Michigan law, a nonprofit organization is required to submit a resolution from its local governing body recognizing it as a community-based organization.
Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that is raising money to help fund prostate cancer research.
Passage of the attached resolution will allow the Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild to hold a quilt raffle at Washtenaw Community College - Morris Lawrence Building. Passage of this resolution is required in order to obtain final approval from the Charitable Gaming Division of the Bureau of State Lottery for this event and any future events.
Staff
Prepared by: Anissa R. Bowden, Council Administrative Coordinator
Reviewed by: Jacqueline Beaudry, City Clerk
Body
Whereas, P.A. 382 of 1972, as amended, requires that local civic nonprofit organizations be recognized by resolution adopted by the local governmental subdivision in which the organization conducts its principal activities and that a copy of said resolution be filed with any application for a license to conduct a bingo, raffle or charity game(s);
Whereas, The Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild has requested that it be recognized as a nonprofit organization operating in the community for the purpose of obtaining a charitable gaming license; and
Whereas, The Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild is a local civic nonprofit organization as defined by P.A. 382 of 1972, as amended, which should be recognized for its efforts to raise money to help further prostate cancer research;
RESOLVED, That City Council hereby approve recognition of the Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild as a local civic nonprofit organization operating in the Ann Arbor community for the purposes of its charitable gaming license application as required by P.A. 382 of 1972, as amended; and
RESOLVED, That the City Clerk be directed to provide a certified copy of this Resolution to the Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild and to take all necessary administrative actions to provide notice of this Resolution to the Charitable Gaming Division, Michigan Department of Treasury.