Bingo in Oregon

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Bingo in Oregon

• Raises close to
• 100,000,000 Annually
• for charities
• (Source - Oregon Department of Justice)

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Regulations on Charities Raising Money Through
Bingo

• Must be designated a 501(c)3 by the IRS
• Pertinent laws set by Oregon State Legislature
• Administrative Rules set governed by the Oregon
  Department of Justice
• Restrictions
• 15 hours / 3 days
• Wage / hour restrictions
• Expenses may not exceed 18 of gross income
• Net income must be 5 or higher of gross income
• Reports and Fees

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Charities who benefitfrom Bingo income

• Multnomah County Hosts
• Summit Bingo - Gresham
• DAV Bingo - Portland
• All Star Bingo - Portland

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• Mt. Hood Ski Education Foundation
• Hoodland Community Childrens Center
• Forest Grove Boosters Club
• Disabled American Veterans
• Mittleman Jewish Community Center
• Oregon Rifle Association
• Portland State University Foundation

• Oregon Adult ChildrenLearning Disabilities
• Oregon Sports Union
• Neighborhood Health Clinics
• Soroptomists International - Gresham
• Soroptomists International - Vancouver
• Soroptomists International Portland East
• Vision Northwest
• Oregon Sports Action
• Oregon Sports Trust

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Mt. Hood Ski Education Foundation Programs

• Sponsors annual Golden Rose celebrity ski race
• Sponsors Mt. Hood Race Team
• Sponsors MHRT Mitey Mite programs racing
• Sponsors numerous summer camps, training
  programs, and day racing training
• Provide academic scholarships
• Sponsored an Olympic athlete to the Winter
  Olympic Games, Albertville, France (Mt. Hood
  Academy student)

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Mt. Hood Ski Education Foundation Mt. Hood
Academy

• The only fully accredited school of its kind in
  the west
• Students transfer to the Academy for the 2nd
  3rd academic quarters for classes, work/ski
  training, travel to races throughout the
  country
• Graduates have gone on to attend
• Dartmouth Bates Colby Whitman U of O
  Universities of Colorado, Utah and Washington

• Bingo income 263,000 / year

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Hoodland Community Childrens Center

• Provides
• Affordable, quality day care for kids aged 6
  mo.-13yrs.
• Special infant/toddler program
• Accepts mentally physically handicapped
• 45,000 to Parks Dept. for playground equipment
• Paid for updating computers in Welches School
  District
• Donated Bike Helmets to Fire Department for kids
• Community outreach
• Financial assistance
• Food shelter
• Hearing aids for senior citizens
• 182,000 / year from Bingo

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Forest Grove Boosters Club

• Provides support to school district with 2,278
  students qualifying for reduced lunches
• Provided 18 scholarships
• Resurfaced gym floor (18 yrs. Old)
• Recovered wrestling mats (25 yrs. Old)
• Support program for at-risk kids
• Financial help to students
• Bingo income 158,000 / year

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Disabled American Veterans

• Founded in 1920
• Provides service to disabled veterans
• Counseling
• VA compensation, pension employment rights
• Health care
• Education
• Emergency disaster financial relief
• Transportation to/from VA medical facilities
• Loan of wheelchairs, carts, walkers etc.
• 330,000 / year from Bingo

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Mittleman Jewish Community Center

• 85 years of community service
• Provides to all denominations
• Child care
• Before after school care
• Youth adult sports leagues
• Alzheimers respite care
• Youth summer camps more ...
• 200,000 to 250,000 / year from Bingo
• Used to aid those in financial need

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Portland State University Foundation Viking Club

• Raise money for athletic scholarships
• Support promote mens and womens
  intercollegiate athletic programs
• Football, wrestling, mens womens basketball,
  cross country track, tennis, golf, soccer, track
  field, volleyball and more
• 200,000 / year from Bingo for scholarships

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Oregon ACLD Foundation (Adult Children
Learning Disabilities)

• Established in 1971
• Serves children and adults w/learning
  disabilities
• 32,000 school age children in Oregon
• ACLD is the ONLY agency serving these needs

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Oregon ACLD Foundation (cont.) (Adult
Children Learning Disabilities)

• Provides
• Advocacy for LD students
• Information referral family support groups
• In-service training for teachers, providers and
  parents
• Evaluation and tutoring for LD adults
• Social skills training low cost tutoring
• Bingo Income 170,000 / year
• United Way has declined to less than 10,000
  (yr.)

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Oregon Sports Union

• Founded in 1974
• Provides
• Real property to develop a full size rugby field
• The only facility of its kind in the region
• Founded a womans rugby team
• Sponsorship of youth rugby clinics
• 5--15 year olds in the summer
• 3 high school programs
• Jefferson High
• Roosevelt High
• Hudson Bay in Vancouver
• 110,000 / year from Bingo

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Neighborhood Health Clinics

• Formed in 1987
• Provides quality health care to people
• with no health insurance
• who lack access to medicaid
• who are unemployed/underemployed
• Programs staffed by volunteer professionals
• Services include
• Weekly medical clinics in NE SE Portland
• Weekly dental denture clinics in SE and
  mid-county
• Well child clinic
• Prenatal care outreach
• Individual group counseling

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Neighborhood Health Clinics, cont.

• 10,000 individuals served in Portland area
• Most with incomes of less than 500/month
• Operating budget 300,000 / year
• Bingo income 144,000 / year

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Soroptomist International Gresham / SE Portland
/ Vancouver

• Goal to improve the community through service to
  women children
• Current effort underway to build a battered
  womens shelter in Portland
• Provides/donated
• Domestic violence awareness
• Kidney dialysis machine
• 5 thermal imaging helmets to fire departments, a
  total of 135,000

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Soroptomist International, cont. Gresham / SE
Portland / Vancouver

• Hosts and/or Sponsors
• Race for The Cure
• Relay for Life (American Cancer Society)
• Greshams annual Teddy Bear Parade
• Financial assistance to
• Mt. Hood Hospice D.A.R.E.
• Komen Foundation Human Solutions
• Canine Companions Autistic Children Activity
  Program
• Bingo income 370,000 (all three)

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Vision Northwest Empowering those with vision
loss

• Provides
• Statewide toll-free information referral s
• Links those in need to peer groups in 45
  communities
• 14 different programs
• Training Education
• 4,500 people served in 1998-1999
• 178,000 / year from Bingo
• Represents 87 of operating revenue

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Oregon Sports Action

• Founded in 1984
• Dedicated to the development of Olympic sport in
  Oregon
• Bid to host the Olympic Winter Games
• Hosts the Oregon Sports Museum
• One of the finest sports museum in the country

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Oregon Sports Trust

• Supports a wide variety of non-profit sports
  oriented organizations statewide through grants
  and loans
• 29,000 grant to Oaks Park Rowing Kayaking
• 40,000 grant to the Oregon Sports Museum
• 3,000 grant to the Velodrome at Alpenrose
• 156,000 in grants to Tualatin Hills Parks
  Recreation District Projects

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Oregon Sports Trust (cont.)

• 2,259 grant to MJCC Swim Team
• 30,000 grant to Lewis Clark College for track
  field
• 3,000 grant to help support NE YMCA swimming
  pool
• 40,000 grant to Mt. Hood Community College Track
• 5,000 grant to resurface track at Lincoln High
  School
• 195,000 to misc. organizations for legal
  assistance

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Pertinent Financial Information

• Multnomah County Hosts
• Summit Bingo - Gresham
• DAV Bingo - Portland
• All Star Bingo - Portland

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Payroll

• In the years 1997, 1998, 1999 5,433,800 was paid
  to employees
• This represents 1,814,600 per year

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Note DAV Bingo does not offer lottery products
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Bingo Customer Survey

• Conducted between
• April 22nd and May 6th 2000

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Image Analysis

• Research Division of R/H/A/S Advertising
  Public Relations
• Established in 1982
• Provides research services to private and
  public/non-profit sector clients
• Regularly conducts surveys, opinion polls,
  interviews and focus groups-
• Clients include
• Oregon Economic Development Department
• Multnomah County Metro Nike ATT US West
• Freightliner ODOT Wah Chang Idaho Falls
  Powerfit sector clients

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Bingo Survey

• Conducted at the request of Donna Tichenor
• Designed to measure potential impact of a smoking
  ban in Multnomah Co. Bingo halls
• Surveyed customers and employees at Summit, All
  Star and DAV
• Self-administered survey
• 1,270 Customers and 67 Employees
• Surveys completed April 22 - May 6, 2000
• Results compiled and analyzed by Image Analysis

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Methodology

• 1,270 Customers from population of approx.
  30,000
• Results significant to /- 2.69, 95 level of
  confidence
• 67 Employees from population of approx. 150
• Results significant to /- 8.94, 95 level of
  confidence
• More than sufficient sample size to provide
  statistically valid results

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Key Findings Demographics

• Gender
• Customers 80 female and 20 male
• Employees 64 female and 36 male
• Smokers and non-smokers
• 62 of customers smoke
• 84 of employees smoke

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Key Findings Demographics
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Key Findings Voter Registration

• Voter Registration
• Customers 82 registered to vote
• 79 of those are registered in Multnomah County
• Employees 73 registered to vote
• 89 of those are registered in Multnomah County

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Key Findings Bingo playing age
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Key Findings Hall Choice

• Customers choose halls based on
• Location
• Hall personnel
• Games/pay-outs
• Cleanliness of hall
• Hall loyalty
• Security
• Food
• Oregon Lottery

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Key Findings Why do you play bingo?

• Enjoyment
• Entertainment and recreation
• To win money
• Because its relaxing
• To get out
• Affordable
• Enjoyable for elderly
• Supports good causes
• Safe at night

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Key Findings Where do you play?

• Summit
• All Star
• DAV
• Sunset
• 40 et 8
• Spirit Mountain Casino
• Moose
• Rodeo Bingo
• Chinook Winds Casino

• Elks Portland
• Elks Vancouver
• Salmon Creek
• Boys Girls Clubs
• Gresham Eagles
• Glenco
• Bingo Palace
• Keizer Bingo
• BJs

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Key Findings Where would you play?
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Key Findings Seating Preferences
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Key Findings Seating Preferences
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Key Findings Importance of Smoking
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Summary

• Employees
• Concerned that fewer customers will come
• Will continue to work at non-smoking halls, but
  dont think bingo halls will be able to stay open
• Worry they will lose their jobs

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Summary

• If Multnomah Co. halls are non-smoking
• 12 of customers (smokers and non-smokers) will
  play bingo here more often
• 62 of customers (smokers and non-smokers) will
  play bingo here less often or never

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Summary

• Approximately 48 of customers surveyed will play
  bingo less or not at all in Multnomah Co. if the
  halls are non-smoking.
• They will travel to
• Indian Casinos
• Washington State
• Other Oregon Counties

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Financial Impact ifBan is Extended to Bingo Halls

• Example

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Mt. Hood Ski Education Foundation

• Gross income 1,841,154
• Prizes paid 1,225,174
• Expenses 304,958
• Net income 311,021

1999
304,958 divided by 1,841,154 16.6
(expenses) 311, 021 divided by 1,841,154
16.9 (net income)
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Its not just charities who will suffer

• Suppliers and Service Providers

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• Airfilco
• Apollo Drain
• ATT
• Baskets for Everyone
• Berg Christian Enterprises
• Blaze Signs
• Boxer Northwest
• Brewed Hot Coffee
• Cash Register Sales
• City of Gresham
• Columbia River Bingo Bugle

• Columbia Sanitation
• Daves Pies
• David Gonzales
• Davis Lock Safe
• DeTemple Company
• Dreyers Grand Ice Cream
• Fitzgeralds Refrigeration
• Graphic Communication
• Group Tecnology
• Harry Hurni
• Helping Hand Refrigeration
• Ikon Office Supplies

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• Peregrin Technologies
• Portland Music Company
• Prime Pay
• Rite-Aid
• River City Environmental
• Road Runner Pizza
• Signs Now
• Sonitrol Pacific
• Sysco
• Lippman Company
• US Food Services
• United Grocers
• ZDI Gaming, Inc.

• Kernel Pops of Portland
• Lucille Underhill
• Maintenance Professionals
• Melody Amusement
• Metro Amusement
• MM Balloon Company
• Menlo Park Flowers
• Mt. Hood Beverage
• Oregon Oils
• Oregon Protection Specialists
• Pepsi

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A smoking ban impact fromother places

• Charities in other states suffer

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California (partial)

• Los Angeles area
• 30 of the games closed
• San Francisco area
• North Bay - 33 of 65 closed 51
• South Bay - 11 of 33 closed 33
• East Bay - 24 of 54 closed 44
• Golden Gate - 11 of 35 closed 31

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California (telephone interviews)

• Called 30 individual halls
• 25 - 70 loss of revenue with an average of 40

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Other Areas (too numerous to be listed here -
partial)

• New England
• Blessed Sacrament, Saugus, MA- closed
• Elks Lodge, Saugus, MA - closed
• Knights of Columbus, Saugus, MA 300 customers to
  130
• St. Pius, Loudonville, NY - closed
• Holy Spirit, East Greenbush, NY down 40
• St. Josephs Academy, Rensselaer, NY down 55

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Where will they go?

• Close to home

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Within a 30 minute drive

• Washington County
• Sunset Bingo, Beaverton
• Vancouver, Washington - Clark County
• Salmon Creek - American Legion
• Rodeo Bingo
• Moose Bingo
• Vancouver Elks
• 40 et 8

Satellite Bingo offered - illegal in Oregon
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Within a 45 minute drive

• Salem - Marion County
• Boys Girls Club
• Keizer Bingomania

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Within a 1 to 1-1/2 hour drive

• Spirit Mountain Casino - Grand Ronde
• Chinook Winds Casino - Lincoln City
• Lucky Eagle Casino - Rochester, WA
• La Center Casinos - Washington
• Red Cross - Longview, WA
• Northern Lights - Longview, WA

Free shuttle busses run from Portland
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Within a 2 to 2-1/2 hour drive

• Seven Feathers Casino - Canyonville
• Eugene Bingomania
• Bingo Palace, Tacoma, WA
• BJs Bingo - Fife, WA
• Emerald Palace Casino, Tacoma, WA
• Muckelshoot Bingo Casino - Auburn, WA

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Internet Bingo

• Played 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Many sites are free

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Thank you for your time interest

• Donna Tichenor