Anaheim : City to Study Whether to Sell Lottery Tickets
Anaheim may become the first Orange County city to get into the lottery ticket sale business, following council approval Tuesday of a study to determine the best sale sites.
City officials discarded the idea of selling the $1 tickets at City Hall or the Brookhurst Community Center. But they are considering asking the state Lottery Commission for permission to sell tickets at sites that could include the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim Stadium and the city’s two golf courses.
City staff recommended that only one of these sites be chosen for the application.
After the study to determine the best locations is completed--and once approval is granted by the state and the city--ticket sales would be given a 60- to 90-day trial run, said Bill Brooks, management analyst for the city’s Program Development and Audit Department.
How much the city could earn from lottery ticket sales “is a real guessing game,” Brooks said. If officials had authorized ticket sales at City Hall, annual profits could have ranged from $89,000 to $1.1 million, based on a survey of sales at similar sites in other cities, Brooks said. At alternate public sites in Anaheim, sales could range annually from $59,000 to $700,000, he added.
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