In the past days Coljuegos had scheduled the invitation for all those interested in the project of the street machines and to be able to answer there all their concerns and needs.
Valid to highlight the new technologies that the regulator has used as a Mentimeter (that allow them to invite the guests to participate anonymously)
The meeting was clear in relation to its theme and sought to discover the greatest difficulties in terms of operability in the sector and procedures. Even they were the only two questions proposed by the entity in Mentimeter.
There, the participants emphasized that the authorities of the country should work more together, because, although Coljuegos very often had very interesting initiatives, the other authorities were not prepared to act with the necessary promptness because they were not well informed.
Some of the most common comments were exposed in the video beam, here their translation:
"Sometimes Coljuegos and municipalities do not agree when it comes to laying down the rules on land use"
"In the city of Medellin, they are not issuing new land use permissions"
"The authorities are not clear about how to issue this, especially in small municipalities. In Medellin, the administration even changed the parameters "
Meaning this, that Coljuegos isn’t as clear as it should be with the departments and its majors on how to structure all the legal requirements, the legal authorizations. So, they haven’t the professional knowledge sometimes to give the approvals to the operators, what leads to delays for the operators to start with their business.
However, Liliana Viveros official of Coljuegos who was responsible for exposing this business model clarified about the efforts that have been made for a while now:
"We had been approaching the mayors for socialize and work in a coordinated the new legal requirements that are needed for the street machines. However, last year the legal area of Coljuegos sent the model of the legal land use requirements and even in nomasfilas.gov.co it is already standardized ".
On the other hand, assistants and officials reached the conclusion that not only it is a great opportunity for the industry, but that the city halls and municipalities would be excellently profited.
One of the observations of this conclusion was made by German Cardona, who was one of the attendees to the meeting: "It is necessary that the task of Coljuegos not only be socialize this business opportunity, but also" evangelize the mayors ", because the business was demonized years ago when it was required to end the illegality of the sector and the old street machines that didn´t were regulated, so the mayors are not prepared to fully understand the benefits of royalties that this business model brings. For this reason and seeking to support the work of the operators in the sector, the work of coljuegos should also be "evangelizing the mayors”.
To which Coljuegos supported, affirming that they are working on it, "because in the end the mayors are the final beneficiaries of the royalties.". For close the reunion, Liliana affirmed that Coljuegos seeks to give all the guarantees to those who wish to be part of this business opportunity, just as they did with the licenses to operate sports bets.
