24 Hour Gambling

The proposed bill permits 24 hour gaming on Saturday Sunday and Monday for a test period of one year. Currently casinos are open 18 hours on weekdays and 20 hours on weekends out of the city's nine casinos three say they favor the concept of 24 hour gaming. The rest reserve comment but all the casinos do agree on one point they won't oppose the experiment. On the positive side casino operators expect 24 hour gambling will enable them to compete for customers with other gaming resorts where the doors never close. They know it will result in better revenues over the summer months but wonder about the rest of the year. It might not be viable during the spring in the fall in the winter during the week we think we probably lose money on that extra shift the cost of operating that shift would be greater than the extra revenues that we took in to make the concept viable. They say it will require regulation changes such as fewer security guards casino executives warned the unlimited hours won't translate into an employment boom because I don't think they're going to be any large increases them jobs in the summer

time maybe. The rest of the year I think that the scheduling of games would enable us to stay open 24 hours a day without additional personnel. The bill sponsor Assemblyman Michael Matthews did not amend the measure to ease staffing requirements besides providing more taxes for the state he says 24 hour gaming would reduce traffic congestion and crime as also because right now when so many people were young people just watch who takes the most money and there are muggings you never read about. It so I think a lot of Matthew says that after the experiment is over it will be up to the legislature to decide the issue in Atlantic City. I'm Brenda Flanagan. The twister left a trail of destruction one thousand homes demolished one hundred and fifty others

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