Listed below are the proposed seminar and workshop topics (and topic
descriptions) being offered at The 10th Annual Minnesota Lawful Gambling
Convention & Expo being held at the Duluth Entertainment Convention
Center (DECC) in Duluth on November 16-17-18, 2000. The Proposed Seminar
& Workshop Schedule can be found on pages 12 & 13.

Continuing Education Seminars

(you need 1 course with ** or 2 courses
with * to meet annual requirement)

Minnesota Gambling Control Board

  Bingo & Bar Bingo (1) ** - This class presents information on
conducting bar bingo and developing a bingo program. The last portion of
this class will be devoted to answering your questions on bingo.

 Board Property Requests (2) * - This class outlines what kind of real
property requests the Board typically considers, such as repair and
maintenance, acquisition of capital assets, eminent domain, and natural
disaster. Learn what your organization can do under this lawful purpose
category. A very informative class if your organization owns its
building, or if you are thinking about building a hockey arena, doing
repairs to a building, erecting a veterans memorial, improving ball
fields, or purchasing capital assets such as a trail groomer or medical
supply equipment.

 Common Problems In Compliance Reviews & Site Inspections (2) ** - With
over ten years experience in reviewing organization records and the
conduct of lawful gambling, Board staff discuss the common problems they
have observed. Learn how to easily prevent these problems with proper
CEO and membership involvement and good internal controls. This class is
for everyone -- whether you are the CEO, gambling manager, employee, or
organization member.

 Lawful Purpose Expenditures & Allowable Expenses (3) ** - Keep
up-to-date on how you can spend your lawful gambling money - lawful
purpose expenditures and allowable expenses. Board staff will share
real-life situations and experiences of lawful purpose contributions.
Also included is information on legislative changes that became
effective this year.

 New Legislation (3) * - New legislation covered in this class includes
lawful purpose expenditures,  payment for the use of premises,  changes
in the conduct of paddlewheel and tipboard games, payment of prizes used
in paddlewheel and tipboard games, and off-site gambling modifications.

 Pull-Tab Sellers, Conduct of Pull-Tabs, & Defective Games (2) ** - This
class provides an overview of how to properly sell pull-tabs, maintain
records for pull-tab games, prevent cash shortages, and handle defective
games. Also included is a focus on the importance and requirement of
daily tracking of inventory for pull-tab games.

 Raffles, Tipboards, & Paddlewheels (Meat Raffles) (1) * - Learn how to
correctly use merchandise certificates in your raffles, and what records
must be maintained for a raffle, including a ticket log and all unsold
tickets. The conduct of meat raffles and how to use the required
merchandise prize inventory forms is included. The conduct of
paddlewheels, tipboards, and raffles will be reviewed, along with
legislative changes that became effective this year.

Minnesota Department Of Revenue Lawful Gambling Tax Unit

 Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Lawful Gambling (2) * - This
class will include discussion of many topics including: defective game
reporting, inventory control, penalties, extensions, destruction of old
games and records, security, and many other others. Your chance to ask
questions.

 Schedule F & Profit Carryover Variances (1) * - This class will
discuss  how to complete the Schedule F. Will also discuss remedies for
profit carryover variances and possible ramifications of not balancing.

 Site Profitability (2) * - This class will discuss  how to complete the
Schedule F. Will also discuss remedies for profit carryover variances
and possible ramifications of not balancing.

Internal Revenue Service
Employment Tax - Emphasis On Tips (2) * - This will be a brief review
of independent contractor versus employee. Questions such as how do I
treat compensation? What can I give to my employee that is not taxable
as wages? will be covered. In addition, the taxability of tips, the TRAC
agreement, how do I educate my employees, what do I do if my employees
do not report their tips, and how do I calculate the taxes on tips will
be addressed.

 UBIT & Excise Tax Update (2) *  - This workshop covers recent
developments with respect to charitable gaming and excise taxes.
Presenters will give direct feedback on areas of concern from a field
agent's standpoint. A portion of the class will be devoted to answering
questions from those attending the session.

Public Safety Alcohol & Gambling Enforcement

 Illegal Gambling and Game Security (2) * - This class taught by agents
of Alcohol & Gambling Enforcement will cover how to recognize illegal
gambling at your site and what actions to take to protect your
organization. Agents will also cover theft investigations and what type
of fraud is commonly occurring with lawful gambling organizations. Class
will include how to detect and prevent this from happening to you.

Group Discussions +

 Advanced Gambling Manager (Two or more years as a Gambling Manager) (2)
- An open discussion by and for gambling managers of licensed lawful
gambling organizations. Items for discussion include: employee issues
and the importance of an employee manual, forms, budgets, determining
site profitability, how to prepare for year end audit, responding to
legislative alerts, working with your CEO, fund losses, and taking
charge of your site.

 Bingo (1) - An open discussion by and for licensed operations that
conduct bingo. Items for discussion include: preparing a bingo program,
how to determine profitability of bingo occasion, employee issues,
inventory problems, coupons, bar bingo, house rules, coverall's,
progressives, advertising, and other issues that relate to bingo.

 CEO's (1) - An open discussion by and for CEO's of licensed lawful
gambling organizations. Items for discussion include: CEO
responsibility, membership duties, lawful purpose expenditures getting
involved with your gaming operation, legislative issues, Allied
Charities membership (what it means), employee issues, changing CEO's
and how it effects your gaming operation.

 Conduct of Pull-Tabs (2) - An open discussion by and for licensed
lawful gambling organizations. Items for discussion include: ordering
games, defective pull-tab games (what should you do, who do you call
when you discover a pull-tab game is defective), posting, new games,
forms to use, peeking, what is digging, layering tickets, house rules
sign (information that should be included), defacing tickets, storage of
games, auditing, shortages, playing jar tickets.

 New Gambling Manager (Less than two years as a Gambling Manager) (2) -
An open discussion by and for Gambling Managers of licensed lawful
gambling organizations. Items for discussion include: setting up
pull-tab site, hiring employees, how to order games, what to expect in a
compliance review, forms and their importance, who to call when problems
arise, flow charts, being in charge and what it means.

 Non-Booth Sales - Bar Ops (2) - An open discussion by and for licensed
gambling organizations on issues relating to pull-tabs sites where the
lessor and/or the lessors employees make sales on behalf of the
organization. Items for discussion include: shortages, paying wages to
bar employees, bar employees completing prize receipts, peeking, insider
trading, defacing tickets, inventory security cash banks, posting,
securing money, and fund losses.

 Paddlewheels, Raffles, & Tipboards (1) - An open discussion by and for
licensed lawful gambling organizations on issues relating to
paddlewheels, raffles, and tipboards. Items for discussion include:
merchandise prizes vs. gift certificates, merchandise inventory control,
paddlewheel profitability, who can play/sell paddletickets and/or
tipboards, how to conduct a legal raffle (records to keep, tracking
sales, making deposits, when to report income, who can buy, who can sell
raffle tickets).

 Pull-Tab Sellers/Cashiers (2) - An open discussion by and for employees
of license gambling organizations that are involved in the sale of
pull-tabs. Items for discussion include : difficult customers, defacing
tickets, filling out prize receipts (what information is required),
pulling a game, loading a new game, shortages, cross banking, how to
handle a negative cash bank, inventory, who you can and can't sell to,
what is or isn't insider trading. Should you allow cell phones at the
booth? What to do if a robbery should occur.

 Pull-Tab Vending Machines (1) - An open discussion by and for licensed
gambling organizations on issues relating to pull-tab dispensing
devices. Items for discussion include: reliability of pull-tab vending
machines, purchase vs. lease, machine maintenance, bar owner/employee
responsibility, shortages, cash bank amounts, pulling games, who should
have keys, inventory control, and tracking sales.

 Site Security, Fund Loss, & Insurance (2) - An open discussion by and
for gambling managers of licensed lawful gambling organizations.  Items
for discussion include:  How to secure your site, video cameras, keys
(who should have access to your booth), storage of games, working with
local law enforcement agencies, insurance agencies, Gambling Control
Board, Dept of Revenue, Public Safety and organization membership.
Necessary forms to complete, review of internal controls, destruction of
games and gaming information, pleading your case.

 Veterans & Fraternal Organizations (2) - An open discussion by and for
licensed lawful gambling organizations that are veterans or fraternal
clubs.

Industry Seminars ^

 Back To The Basics - "A Practical Approach to Monthly Reporting" (2) -
This seminar will cover the basics of monthly reporting including, but
not limited to; the importance of internal controls, the answer to why
there is so much paper work, and most importantly the participants will
have an opportunity to complete the monthly reporting forms. The goal is
to educate members of organizations with a broader understanding of why
they are required to do the things they do each month.

 Compulsive Gambling (1) - A presentation by the Minnesota Council On
Compulsive Gambling on compulsive gambling.

 Federal Tax & 501(c)(3) Issues (2) - Eve Borenstein of the Tax Exempt
Law Office Of Eve Rose Borenstein will review filing strategies and
requirements to minimize unrelated business income tax (UBIT) and gaming
excise tax liabilities (reported upon Federal Form 990-T, 730, & 11-C).
Kevin Staunton of Hinshaw & Culbertson will take alook at challenges
501(c)(3) organizations are facing from various regulatory agencies.

 How to Handle Difficult Customers (2) - In its fifth year of
presentation by CLIMB Theatre, this seminar continues to entertain and
enlighten participants with true-to-life role-plays that teach ways to
deal with difficult customers and create a more respectful work
environment.

 Lawful Gambling As A Business (2) - Items for discussion:  Learn how to
prepare a budget for your site(s), tracking the performance of your
gambling operation, calculating the (actual) cost of employees,
educating and training your staff, preparing a profit & loss statement
each month, ordering games (take control), informing your board, and
staying in compliance.

 Legislative Panel (1) - A panel discussion by Minnesota State
Legislators on charitable gambling and other Minnesota gambling.

 Managing Employees Well (2) - "Fresh from Las Vegas" This timely
workshop by CLIMB Theatre was written for the International Bingo World
Convention in Las Vegas and was extremely well received. In this
seminar, managers learn:
 • How well-written ads and job descriptions can help in hiring the
right person for the job, and managing that person
 • Three techniques essential to quality personal management
 • How letting go of employees who are not doing the job can actually
help retain good employees

 To Catch A Thief (2) - Studies report that only 20% of all employees
are 100% honest. In an industry that deals almost entirely with cash,
that statistic can have devastating effects. How do you protect your
business without becoming overly suspicious and creating a distrustful
work environment? This seminar will help. Professional conference
presenters from CLIMB Theatre will facilitate a panel, consisting of a
gambling manager, an attorney in employment law, and an experienced
gaming industry employee, Participants will be informed on how to
confirm suspicions that someone is stealing and how to respond to
suspected employees in a way that's legal, gets you the information you
need, and is not disruptive to other employees or the business. CLIMB
staff will role-play supervisor/employee, customer/employee, and
employee/employee interactions to demonstrate procedures and processes.
Attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions regarding specific
instances they have experienced.

 The number after the seminar title is the number of times the topic
will be offered. Seminar tickets are only available on-site and are
available on a first-come, first-serve basis.