Title
Resolution Recognizing The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North 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.
The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North is a local non-profit organization that supports charity work both in Ann Arbor and worldwide. Part of the Rotary Club's mission is to end Polio worldwide, and thus the organization helps to support efforts to provide immunizations all around the world. The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North has recently been sponsoring clean water work in Africa and South America.
Passage of the attached resolution will allow the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North to host a Spring fundraiser on April 19, 2008 to further support their charitable mission and humanitarian work. This resolution is required in order to obtain final approval from the Charitable Gaming Division of the Bureau of State Lottery for the raffle.
Staff
Prepared by: Jacqueline Beaudry, City Clerk
Sponsored by: Council Member Joan Lowenstein
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 Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North 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 Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North is a local civic nonprofit organization as defined by P.A. 382 of 1972, as amended, which should be recognized for its continuing efforts to promote clean water and eradicate the spread of diseases around the world, such as Polio;
RESOLVED, That City Council hereby approve recognition of The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North 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 Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North and to take all necessary administrative actions to provide notice of this Resolution to the Charitable Gaming Division, Michigan Department of Treasury.