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PUBLIC NOTICE_________________________ I________________$6.1 BILLIONSALESFISCAL YEAR SALES(in millions of dollars)1976-77* $196.51977-78 195.81978-79 188.11979-80 184.61980-81 236.21981-82 424.91982-83 645.01983-84 890.31984-85 1,271.21985-86 1,317.01986-87 (to 9/8)** 600.0TOTAL $6,149.6' Partial Year, September 8,1976 to March 31,1977 %u2022 ' Estimated/UnauditedNEW YORK LOTTERY SALES & REVENUE67/68 89/70 71/72 73/74 75/78 77/78 79/80 81/82 83/84 85/8868/89 70/71 72/73 74/75 76-77 78/79 80/81 82/83 84/85 86417Fiscal Year Ending March 31st 86/87 Projected$2.8 BILUONREVENUESEARNED FOR NEW YORK STATEFISCAL YEAR REVENUES EARNEDFOR NEW YORK STATE1976-77*(in millions of dollars) $ 9 4 .81977-78 91.21978-79 90.91979-80 85.61980-81 103.01981-82 179.81982-83 275.21983-84 390.51984-85 600.01985-86 607.81986-87 (to 9/8)** 271.0TOTAL $2,789.8%u2022 (Partial Year, September 8,1976 to March 31,1977) %u2022 ' Estimated/UnauditedIt%u2019s our Tenth Anniversary!New Yorkers welcomed their Lottery back to the marketplace on September 8,1976 with record purchases of our New York Scenes Instant Lottery game, with its top prize of $1,000 a week for life and a guaranteed payment of at least $1 million.Ten years later, on September 8,1986, New Yorkers are still enjoying their Lottery games, but more of them %u2014 LOTTO 48 and CASH 40, DAILY NUMBERS, WIN-4 and the INSTANT game.In the intervening years, sales have exceeded $6.1 billion and earnings for New York State have passed the $2.8 billion mark.Over the ten years, Lottery prizes have grown too, from $1 million to a national record of $41 million. 466 persons have won prizes of a million dollars or more. The value of all Lottery prizes awarded is in excess of $3.4 billion.The Lottery has become a household word, a happy part of our times.The Lottery%u2019s mission is to help raise money for our elementary and secondary schools. Its earnings help fund the State%u2019s financial assistance to the more than 700 local school districts.On average, each day, every day for the last ten years, the Lottery has earned more than three quarters of a million dollars for New York.M ORE THAN $3.4 BILLIO N IN P R IZ ESIn its ten years, since September 8,1976, New York%u2019s Lottery has had more than 255 million prize winners, who have won prizes valued at more than $3.4 billion.Along the way to this milestone, New York%u2019s Lottery set new records for individual prizes.The $41 million LOTTO 48 jackpot it offered in its August 21, 1985, drawing was the largest Lottery prize ever offered on the North American continent. Three winners shared that prize, including the %u201c Lucky 21 %u201d , a group of Mount Vernon factory workers, most of whom were immigrants.The $30 million LOTTO 48 prize won by Pasquale Consalvo, a Staten Island mason, on January 18,1986, was the largest prize ever won by an individual in the New York State Lottery.HOW W E H ELPLottery earnings help pay the State%u2019s share of the cost of our elementary and secondary schools. At the same time, Lottery operations provide economic benefits by making it possible for businesses across the State, many of them small %u201c Mom and Pop%u201d stores to be economically successful through commissions earned by selling Lottery products. The Lottery also infuses many millions of dollars into the private sector and, as a result, creates jobs.TH AN KS, NEW YO R K STATEAnniversaries remind us of the many persons it takes to be successful.The success of the New York State Lottery over the years has to be credited to the people of New York State, who have expressed their confidence and trust by purchasing Lottery tickets in ever increasing numbers. With your support, the past ten years have been good for us at the Lottery, good for the schools who benefit from Lottery earnings and good for the State.Thank you for ten great years.Sincerely,Page 24, The Phoenlx/Brooklyn.lnc Section Two, September 18,1986