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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,January 8,2024 Page 3 Councilmember Strahan indicated she preferred the first--simply limiting the number of premises per organization to 4 --just because she thought it is good to keep a closer handle on it. Councilmember Etten noted that as it stands right now, there can only be three premises permits until the organization gets the next one formally. The City only has seven premise permits out there and so that will bring the City to eight before the organization can have another one, the City would have to have two other gambling premises added before the Organization can add a fifth location. Etten moved, Schroeder seconded, enactment of Ordinance No. 1652 entitled, "An Ordinance Amending Section 304 of Title 3 Entitled Lawful Gambling to Regulate the Number of Premises Permits that May be Held by One Organization." Council Discussion Councilmember Etten asked the City Attorney about contributions, where it lists that"disbursements for Police,Fire,and other emergency or public related services, shall be directed from the fund by the actions of the City Council". He thought that needed to be worked out because he did not understand it. Another one he did not understand is Section 349 in the State Statute that seemed to make sense but he did not see anything that talked about disbursement for emergency services. He wondered where that language came from or if he missed it in Section 349. City Attorney Tierney explained with the language that she added and the language that is in the ordinance, the changes are all cross references to State law to bring this language up to date with current State law. Councilmember Etten explained he did not know what the City's requirements are regarding that and wondered if there was a certain percentage that has to be made to emergency services from that fund or what are the rules. City Attorney Tierney explained there is a reference again to the same public safety related services in paragraph c, which is on the next page. So, excluding amounts that are contributed to the City for those purposes, ninety percent of the remaining profits have to be in the City's area. She thought there was more of a floor on that than a cap. Councilmember Etten did not think there was necessarily a requirement that had to go there. Mayor Roe indicated there was not. Currently,he did not think the City had, in his time on the Council, actually allocated any of those funds to public safety.