The Anápolis City Council/GO will hold a public hearing this Friday (14th) to discuss the implementation process of the Anápolis Municipal Lottery (Lotan). The event is an initiative of the president Dominguinhos do Cedro aimed at understanding the operation format and the contracting of a company qualified to operate in the municipality.
Lotan was established by Complementary Law 535/2023, proposed by Dominguinhos do Cedro (PDT) and councilor Jakson Charles (PSB). “Discussing this matter is very important. The city hall issued a bid to hire a company that will study the appropriate model to be implemented, but the Legislative Power was not invited and was not aware of the meeting that discussed the matter. We want the hearing so that we can be informed about how the process is unfolding,” explained the president.
The study referred to by the president of the Council concerns the technical-operational, economic-financial, and legal-institutional feasibility that will enable the structuring of the model for delegating municipal lottery services.
The law that created Lotan establishes that the service can be directly or indirectly exploited by the Executive Power. Hiring a specialized company to define the best model is the first step for the municipal lottery to become a reality.
If the Anápolis City Hall decides to outsource the lottery through a public concession, it will be responsible for supervising the service. The law states that the money collected from Lotan will be used for operational expenses and prize payments, considering the income tax.
The remainder of the collected money will be divided as follows: 80% to the Social Security Institute of Municipal Employees of Anápolis (Issa) and 20% to social programs in the areas of sports, culture, and tourism.
According to the law that created Lotan, the company that manages the system, by concession or permission, will be responsible for drafting the lottery plans, as well as for supplying equipment, distribution, sales, and advertising, credentialing the appointed distributing and reselling agents of the municipality.
The company will also be responsible for the payment of prizes and administrative, financial, and statistical control of sales, collection, and tax remittance.
Among the guests for the hearing are the president of Issa, Eduardo Milke, the secretaries Márcia Jacinta (Social Integration) and Alaine Alves Valim (General Comptroller), the president of the OAB Anápolis, Samuel Santos, the director of Procon, Wilson Velasco, the city attorney general, Carlos Alberto Fonseca, and the prosecutors Paulo Henrique Martorini and Alberto Francisco Cachuba Júnior.
Source: GMB
