HomeMy WebLinkAboutRes 96-12 Relating to the Proposed Senate Bill Regarding the Texas LotteryTOWN OF WESTLAKE
RESOLUTION 96-12
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF
WESTLAKE, TEXAS, RELATING TO THE PROPOSED SENATE BILL
REGARDING THE TEXAS LOTTERY.
WHEREAS, the Texas Lottery Commission has conducted the Texas Lottery
since its implementation in 1992; and
WHEREAS, Senator Torn Haywood has proposed a senate bill to be presented
in the 1997 legislative session of the Texas Senate that would require the Texas Lottery
Commission to return five cents of every lottery sales dollar to the city where the sale was
transacted or to the county where the sales transaction location was in the unincorporated
area of the county; and
WHEREAS, the state lottery ticket sales in Denton County during the calendar
year 1995 totaled $34,400,000, and this proposed bill would have returned to the cities
and county of Denton County a total of $1,720,000; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by'the Board of Aldermen of the
Town of Westlake, Texas,
SECTION 1: That the Texas Lottery Commission return five cents of every
dollar of the Texas state lottery ticket sales to the cities and counties.
PASSED AND APPROVED by the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Westlake
this 12`x' day of August, 1996.
Scott Bradley, Mayor
ATTEST:
Inger sswy. Town Secr . ry
APPROVED AS TO FORINT:
Paul C. Isham, Town Attorney