Title
Resolution Recognizing Health in Action 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 Health in Action group is part of a larger organization, Global Reach, at the University of Michigan Medical School. Global Reach is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that is committed to helping provide medical treatment in rural Dominican Republic. The organization includes medical students and doctors from the University of Michigan.
Passage of the attached resolution will allow Health in Action to hold a poker night at the Heidelberg in downtown Ann Arbor. 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: 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, Health in Action 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, Global Reach, the umbrella organization that founded Health in Action, is a local civic nonprofit organization as defined by P.A. 382 of 1972, as amended, which should be recognized for its efforts to provide medical treatment and supplies around the world;
RESOLVED, That City Council hereby approve recognition of Health in Action as a local civic nonprofit organization operat...
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