Carson asks consideration for record keeping reductions
Pub Date: 5/1/2008
Carson asked the GCD to consider a recommendation to revise record-keeping burdens, specifically the two-year requirement to keep copies of all audit tapes and reports.
"The new electronic reporting system works well, accurately," Carson said. "Machine owners have stepped up to electronic reporting. Now I'd like to see some reciprocation."
Huntington said the time requirement has been reduced from three years to two.
"We could look at dropping to one year when the integrity of the (electronic reporting) system is established. We shouldn't need two-year retention."
The GCD's Rick Ask added, "We are monitoring the system as we add machines. And we are planning tests'; spot-check audits. We may then be ready to move to shorter retention."
Carson noted the state's largest route operator, Century Gaming, has been electronically reporting for one year. "What is the time frame for testing before record retention can be considered," he asked? "The investment made in technology needs to pay more dividends."
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Huntington said GCD could "bring back some kind of proposed schedule" for the next meeting. "The issue is one with the individual locations, how that's going to work. There are few that have been on-line for one-year. But a request for a time-line is reasonable," he said.
"If there's a high level of confidence" in the system, Carson said, "then there is a time when we should have a positive trade-off."
It was decided the next GAC meeting would tentatively be scheduled for July 25, hopefully in the Flathead area.
Source: The Montana Tavern Times, May, 2008, published monthly by Continental Communications, 125 W. Granite St., Suite 102, Butte, MT 59701.