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j1miller
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 Posted: 03/01/06 - 10:22 Post subject: No pressure, MB!
| Quote: | ountdown to lottery ticket sales
SHARIF DURHAMS
sdurhams@charlotteobserver.com
Organizers of the N.C. Education Lottery are buying advertising time, scouting for office space and taking applications from retailers as they scramble to be ready to sell the first tickets March 30.
A look at the numbers, with 29 days to go: 4,000 Target number of retailers the lottery wants to have in place to sell tickets by the launch date.
5,600 Retailers who have applied.
100 Employees already hired. An additional 41 candidates have been offered jobs.
$3 million Spent so far on hiring staff, renting office space, buying vehicles, purchasing terminals. It's part of a $10 million startup loan from state tax money that the lottery will have to repay over the next two years.
$18.25 million Amount that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools could get for facilities during the next school year if early sales projections pan out.
$19 million Estimated amount to be taken in next year by multinational GTECH Corp., which won a contract for installing and operating the ticket machines.
$50,000 Bonus that would go to director Tom Shaheen, beyond his $235,000-a-year salary, if the lottery starts on time. |
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Posted: 03/01/06 - 17:49 Post subject: Re: No pressure, MB!
| j1miller wrote: | | Quote: | ountdown to lottery ticket sales
SHARIF DURHAMS
sdurhams@charlotteobserver.com
Organizers of the N.C. Education Lottery are buying advertising time, scouting for office space and taking applications from retailers as they scramble to be ready to sell the first tickets March 30.
A look at the numbers, with 29 days to go: 4,000 Target number of retailers the lottery wants to have in place to sell tickets by the launch date.
5,600 Retailers who have applied.
100 Employees already hired. An additional 41 candidates have been offered jobs.
$3 million Spent so far on hiring staff, renting office space, buying vehicles, purchasing terminals. It's part of a $10 million startup loan from state tax money that the lottery will have to repay over the next two years.
$18.25 million Amount that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools could get for facilities during the next school year if early sales projections pan out.
$19 million Estimated amount to be taken in next year by multinational GTECH Corp., which won a contract for installing and operating the ticket machines.
$50,000 Bonus that would go to director Tom Shaheen, beyond his $235,000-a-year salary, if the lottery starts on time. |
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This place is an absolute madhouse and I'm the one responsible for our systems development. 
BTW, over 5,800 retailers have applied. Over 2,500 have been approved so far and I'm not sure how many GTECH has terminals installed at. I designed the system that handles the applications, but that'll be turned over to GTECH in a couple of weeks.
Yeah. No pressure.
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Posted: 03/01/06 - 17:55 Post subject: Re: No pressure, MB!
| MastrBrewr wrote: | | j1miller wrote: | | Quote: | ountdown to lottery ticket sales
SHARIF DURHAMS
sdurhams@charlotteobserver.com
Organizers of the N.C. Education Lottery are buying advertising time, scouting for office space and taking applications from retailers as they scramble to be ready to sell the first tickets March 30.
A look at the numbers, with 29 days to go: 4,000 Target number of retailers the lottery wants to have in place to sell tickets by the launch date.
5,600 Retailers who have applied.
100 Employees already hired. An additional 41 candidates have been offered jobs.
$3 million Spent so far on hiring staff, renting office space, buying vehicles, purchasing terminals. It's part of a $10 million startup loan from state tax money that the lottery will have to repay over the next two years.
$18.25 million Amount that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools could get for facilities during the next school year if early sales projections pan out.
$19 million Estimated amount to be taken in next year by multinational GTECH Corp., which won a contract for installing and operating the ticket machines.
$50,000 Bonus that would go to director Tom Shaheen, beyond his $235,000-a-year salary, if the lottery starts on time. |
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This place is an absolute madhouse and I'm the one responsible for our systems development.
BTW, over 5,800 retailers have applied. Over 2,500 have been approved so far and I'm not sure how many GTECH has terminals installed at. I designed the system that handles the applications, but that'll be turned over to GTECH in a couple of weeks.
Yeah. No pressure. |
Bah! Relax... 29 days is lots of time...if you don't sleep or stop to eat.....
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Posted: 03/02/06 - 10:18 Post subject:
MB: Worry about the stuff you can control. Remember to coordinate, talk, talk some more and above all: get your "problems" and the solutions to the right people.
I'm hoping everyone involved knew this was going to be a large scale, complex problem. (Except maybe for some political appointees)
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Posted: 03/02/06 - 20:30 Post subject:
Over 3,600 locations approved through today. Looks like we'll make the deadline if GTECH can install fast enough. 
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j1miller
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Posted: 03/02/06 - 20:35 Post subject:
| MastrBrewr wrote: | | Over 3,600 locations approved through today. Looks like we'll make the deadline if GTECH can install fast enough. |
yeah!
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