New Bingo Equipment to be Purchased
The Officers of your Council have unanimously voted to purchase a new bingo machine in order to resume bingo Operations. Since this is an operating cost we do not require a council vote on this but we want to inform the membership since it is a significant capital expense.
As most of you know, we were slated to restart bingo operations again on March 4th. A dry run prior to the start showed a problem with a key component of the equipment, the verification computer which also runs the registers, and we had to put bingo on hold.
Atlantic Bingo Supply was engaged. There is no replacement equipment available. Atlantic could try and fix the problem with the computer but due to the age of the computer and availability of parts, they could not guarantee success. They have another customer with a similar problem that they have been trying to correct for more than three months.
The officers determined that it was time to look at new equipment because our old bingo machine was not giving us any other options.
We looked at our options from Atlantic Bingo Supply and the other State-approved vendor. The other vendor was not a viable option.
We will be purchasing a new bingo machine from Atlantic Bingo Supply. Here is a link to the information about the new machine. We will also be obtaining two new registers and 30 new handheld gaming computers on a usage fee basis
We should have all of this equipment installed within three weeks so we can start bingo again. If you have any questions about this please reach out to your officers.