The Illinois Gaming Board (IGB) held its monthly meeting on
Wednesday. Below is a summary of both the Riverboat and Video
Gaming meetings.
Riverboat Meeting
The Chairman discussed that the IGB will be sending out a letter
to the riverboats to discuss minority spending. In short, while
some categories of purchases will be exempt, the IGB wants to
encourage and more accurately track spending with minority
companies.
The next item on the agenda was public commentary. There were
two speakers: Martin Storm of BMM Test Labs and Kevin Mullally of
GLI. Mr. Storm spoke in support of having multiple test labs
approved in Illinois. He said that Illinois is the only
jurisdiction using a sole source independent lab model. He said
multiple labs would encourage competition and be a benefit to both
the IGB and the industry. Mr. Mullally was against changing the
status quo. He said that GLI is not a monopoly. Rather it is the
winner of various RFPs. GLI said that its client is
