 Pat Grace, it's good to see you. Looks like you're in the office, so. Getting good notes, a little Audrey. Everything is doing well. Dave, are we ready to go live? Yep, you just said it, so we're all set. Okay, thank you. Okay, great. Morning, this is a convening of the Master's of Gaming Commission and we are here for our gender setting meeting. It is March 6th and today is public meeting a lot of this before, but get right started on our agenda plan because I understand, Mr. Maynard, we don't have any minutes for today. Did you want to do roll call, Madam Chair? Oh, my apologies, thank you. Good morning, Commissioner O'Brien. Good morning. But I have to do a roll call because we're holding this meeting virtually. Good morning, Commissioner Hill. Good morning. Commissioner Skinner is away this week. I don't think she's calling in. She had told me she'd be away. Mr. Maynard. Good morning, Madam Chair. Good morning, and my apologies for the lateness and a little disruption at a conference and as Jesus is getting a lot of highlights, you should all be really proud of the great work that you do. So this might not be working so well. We can see you. I hope you'd like to speak if I want to disrupt. All right, let's get started. Turning first to the calendar. We've got the calendar's 8th, right through April 11th. I don't know if we have any adjudicatory hearing that's been scheduled or any other public meeting that needs to be included. It's great that it's included. You've got calendars right in front of you. So is there anything we should be adding to that? Madam Chair, the only thing would be there's holds for March 18th for the final ED interview meeting. That's gonna be a ghost for greenlighting that. Okay, so let's add that. Anything else? Thank you. Adam Schumer, morning. I would just note that the March 21st adjudicatory hearing for BET-MGM, that is off at present until, I believe, until we determine the process. So that one will be rescheduled, but that would not, we wouldn't be using that date. Is it the process or is it still getting more information through that was requested? Or is it both? I think it's both, yes. Okay, good. All right, so I wanted to make sure I know that some of the commissioners would be interested in making sure that updated information was there. Okay, Jill, you're not leaning in for another date, are you? All right, and let's get started. March 14th, morning, Todd, do you have a particular administrative update? Good morning, Madam Chair. You know, I had nothing in particular, so I was just reminded that we talked a little bit about the federal legislation that was out there and that might be a good topic to discuss at the administrative update, if that would be helpful. I think we have it on for, we do have it on for this date. Mark was going to be working with legal to present. So Mark, could you coordinate with Todd? If you see Todd number 12 on this particular agenda. Oh, so it is, yeah, okay. Yeah, so Mark and legal, it is very much a legal issue because it's interpreting legislation. So Mark, if you've coordinated with Todd, that would be great, thanks. That will be on, I think that's going to be already been for the portion. Yes, that will be ready. Okay, excellent, question about that. All right, we've got Judy and Commissioner Maynard. Are those accurate dates, the minute? Those are accurate dates. Yeah, yeah, the first, the 15th and the 21st of June, 2023 and we will have those over today. No, I'm not just saying about dates, yes? Yes, please. You should talk about the specifics, so to the extent that we can give you specifics to the agenda, thanks. I know that you probably have budget in mind, at least if there's anything else, okay? I don't... I'm grateful for coordinating that. I don't know if this is the time to bring this up or not, or whether it would be under commissioner updates, but I've been talking with Todd and Grace and Derek and others, we would actually, I would like to actually ask the commission, if they wouldn't mind doing a legislative breakfast up on Beacon Hill in the first week of April, so that we can introduce to our legislators the work that we do and to introduce ourselves as there are a lot of new legislators who have been elected, since both bills have been passed, 23K and 23N. And I wanted to look to my fellow commissioners to see if that would be something you'd be interested in doing. And what I envision is an introduction of the MGC with a sponsor from the house and that we would bring up three or four of our leaders to talk about the departments that affect the communities across the Commonwealth. But I didn't wanna go and do that without reaching out to all of you first and seeing if you thought it was a good idea and would you be willing to be not only part of it, but allow me to set it up and do the legwork to make that happen. Excellent idea to commission on Hill. So Richard, any? I like the idea and I'm assuming you've been talking to Todd to make sure we don't need to make it a public meeting, like to just structure it, right? So it's either some sort of training where we're sitting silent or what a public meeting so that we could actually speak or participate. I guess, are you working that with Todd? Yes. Yeah, I think it's a great idea, the same considerations as Commissioner O'Brien and I would just go one step further and say, listen, if two or three of us commissioners need to be silent while somebody leads the conversation, I'm fine with that, right? Like whatever to make it work and trust Commissioner Hill to go out and swim in the bed on that given his history. So. Well, that's a great idea and it's great that you brought it forward in this forum so that everybody can be part of the planning. And so you and Grace and the legislative booth it sounds like we'll put together that for calendar in April at some point. Okay, excellent idea. Thank you and thank you to my fellow commissioners. And this is exactly the form that, when there are new initiatives and new ideas, this is why we do agenda setting. The team is great at making sure that it hurts. So I'm glad that you spoke right up. All right. So then in terms of regulations, those are complete sets. Morning, Carrie's out this morning, but I can confirm that all three of those regulations are ready to come forward. And they're accurate. Correct, yes. 221 is sports wagering license fees. 23812 is reserve requirement. It has to do with a sports wagering letter of credit. And then lastly, coming up for discussion only is 238.35 canceled and voided wagers. So those will come for just a discussion before the commission, before we ask for a vote. Okay. Thanks, Judy. No problem. And Trini, I'll send you a agenda language. Okay, thank you. Great, thank you. The NTC license field approval are turned to mills and days. I can speak to that too, Madam Chair. I have a brief memo sort of outlining the MTC's authority to enact a seal, as well as some exemplars and other jurisdictions, which will be part of the packet and should be ready for discussion next week as well. Right. Sure, Brian, that's a good move. It's great, a great initiative. All right. In terms of sports wagering, it's actually the combo, IEB sports wagering and legal. Caitlin, good morning. Good morning. That will be ready for the 14th. Okay, any questions or suggestions from you, Ruth or Crystal on that? Are you all set? This is on the category one, non-compines, has that been shared with you? You've all been coordinated with sports wagering, IEB, legal? Well, it'll all be, before we get it into the packet, everyone will have signed off for sure. Okay, excellent thing. Then we have sports wagering. What do we got here? We have a few items, Crystal and Andrew. Sure, two house rule updates, from one from Fanatics, one from Fandall, and then a new event petition. This is a joint petition from Fandall and DraftKings. They both submitted a petition to include the United Football League, the UFL and our event catalog. Great, and what was it, but Fanatics and... Fanatics house rule updates, Fandall house rule updates, and then a joint petition from DraftKings and Fandall to include the UFL. Okay, thanks, I heard Fanatics, my apologies. And I will need to bring for... Oh, go ahead. Go ahead, Crystal. I was just gonna say, Andrew, you got a big compliment for your presentation last week. I just wanted to pass it along from somebody who is watching. So people are listening and interested and I thought you're a famous, very comprehensive, so thanks. Great, thank you. Great, yeah, so I'm just bringing forth two waivers for 25034, which just expired on the first. So there are two operators who need to extend that or requesting to extend that, at least two, but I'll get you the information. It's been coming in the last two days. Miss, did you get the rag or should Crystal recede it again? 25034, it's the particular piece of the data privacy one regarding the encryption and the hashtag, or hashtagging, social media, encryption, hashing and those components. So I think there was a conversation and I know that Mina's planning on bringing some of that information forth, but since it expired, we're just trying to get ahead of it. Great, and Crystal, I wanna also say that in truth, the entire team is being recognized and Crystal, your good work is being pointed out as well. This test makes me, before I forget, just as you remember, about maybe two weeks, but maybe with that's the last public meeting, we have the two regulations where we were sending some backs for the attorney general's review and one of them was 257. It had stemmed from an earlier meeting and I think it's gonna be helpful going forward. Todd, it's a legal memo that connects back to a meeting because that's what's gonna give us a point of reference, right? So we don't wanna forget that those 257 and the other one was the advertising, right? Judy and Todd, that sent back for the, there was some question about where it stemmed from and we suggested that the AG look at those changes that Mina brought forward. It's actually, they weren't changes in that one. It was, there were some options to see whether or not the commission wanted to entertain any change at all than if they did what the degree of change. Todd, I just don't want us to forget because we are hoping to get the AG's input on that. Absolutely, that is underway this week. So we will be bringing that back as well. Yeah, okay. And so then they should come back when they're ready. Okay, anything else? Madam Chair, could I put one more under sports waiting, which would be an update on valleys? Oh, good. And Commissioner Skinner had asked for that. Yes. Thank you, Bruce. I guess I had it twice, my apologies, but, okay, then we'll have you go over that, that item twice that day should work out well. I'll be ready for it. We'll really get it. Drive the point homes. Okay, so then we're looking at the process just a little bit to your point, too, for the non-compliant acuticatory hearing. So you and Caitlin, will you be ready to walk us through that if you need more time? I think we're gonna need more time, Madam Chair. We did receive a call from Council from one of our operators yesterday and who indicated they would be sending a letter or a memorandum of a number of legal issues that they wanted to raise that relate directly to this and are somewhat broader than what we had initially discussed at the last public meeting as far as what our inquiry would be. So I think it would be a best use of time to incorporate our responses to that when we've received it into the full discussion. So the commission kind of see everything at one time. And I've discussed that with Caitlin. I don't, Caitlin, if you have any other comments, but I think it would be best to address it in one fell swoop. I agree. And since we haven't seen those comments yet, we're not gonna be ready to respond by the deadline for the packing materials. So we could move this out to the meeting at the end of the month, that would be appreciated. Thanks for that letter. Not necessarily, I'll move it to the next public meeting. Let's put it under review. I think we should, if you don't mind, Madam Chair, I think we should try to put it on the next meeting because we are sort of in a holding pattern on some of these adjudicatory hearings and these sorts of monitoring non-compliance matters until we have an understanding of how the commission wants the IV to act in certain circumstances. So I don't want to kick it out too far. Christian, if it requires a separate meeting, a short meeting, it's kind of heady. So if we want to mark it up for a separate public meeting, that could be good too. I see Brad and Eileen nodding their heads, Jordan. Good morning, Joe. Good morning, Madam Chair and Commissioners. We should be all set for a couple of items. You'll just send the language over to us on any specific thing. Yes. That's not good. With respect to the introduction to the new applications, is that going to be a very lengthy introduction? No, I think about just about 10 minutes or so on that. So I think that the both items should take probably a half hour or less. Good morning, Kara. How are you? I'm well, thank you, good morning. Oh, sorry. Thank you, it's a big class. Yes, we will be all set to present that on the 14th. No? I can hear. Can you hear me or no? I can hear you. Can you hear me? I can hear you. We're all set. Good. Thank you so much. Thanks, Kara. You're also done such a nice job on those. So thank you. I'll go back to number 12, Mark, and I'll make sure to put on legal. Todd, is it you or is it one of your colleagues? I was just looking at this again, and I have not looked at this, and I don't think any of us have in legal. So I don't think we would be prepared to submit certainly any materials in the next day or so. And I haven't really talked to Mark extensively about this. This might benefit from an additional meeting to let us prepare for this one. I'm generally familiar with it, but that's not the particulars. Well, in terms of materials, we aren't going to be voting on this as an update. Is that what we'd be able to keep it on for the 14th? Or do you want to roll it over? I think it would be helpful perhaps to roll it over. I really just am not, as I sit here right now, prepared to talk about that. I don't know what type of review that will entail at the moment. So just to make sure, I think it would be helpful to put it off. Mark? That's fine. I'll certainly defer to Todd on this. Good morning, Dr. Lighthound, how are you? Good morning, I'm good. Thank you. So we're ready for the house discussion. That's all set. The unpaid winnings from the tracks. And that should be pretty quick. That's a standard operating procedure by statute. And then your bigger discussion, right? On the S-Browing. Yes, Judy and I were wondering if commissioners would like two by twos on that item. And if so, we weren't sure if there was time to do them before the meeting. It looks like you all have a few meetings already scheduled next Monday and Tuesday. So we weren't sure if you wanted to keep it on the 14th or move it. And Judy's on if she wants to speak to this. Right, I can be briefed. I'm here this week. I'm basically here all week. I'm in the office. I can be briefed anytime. As could I, because it's not gonna be a long briefing. So we've reached out to Trudy and Grace. Welcome back, Grace, to help us see if we can find some time on your schedules commissioners for two by twos. Just as a brief overview, we went over this agenda item back in June of 2023. And it went pretty long, about I think an hour and 15 minutes, just kind of getting through the history of the regulation and 23K section 60, which kind of gives an overview of the Racehorse Development Fund. And then bringing things forward to where it stands today and additional research that we've done, just kind of figuring that there is some nuance here that would probably benefit from two by twos before bringing this forward, but understanding that, you know, packet materials are due in the next couple of days. So if we don't have the opportunity to meet with you, we are able to push back, you know, to a later meeting date, but amendable either way. Sorry, excuse me. I think that we should plan on moving forward. I think you should submit the materials. Sounds like, you know, Mr. Hill, Mr. Maynard, I'll set, I'm sure between, you know, I am out of pocket on Friday. Tomorrow, I'm pretty booked, but I could space in time and then Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. I'm sure that there's, we have some meetings. Monday's a pretty long day. Next week looks to be a little bit of a bear, so we just wanted to flag it. I am open, and I'm pretty open, both today and tomorrow. So I've, unfortunately, I've got a little bit of an ongoing sickness going through my house. So I'm going to take you again, unfortunately, but I can try to make myself available. So we'll see what we can do. Okay. Okay. Well, if it turns out that we can't get them done and we want the two by twos and we'll roll it over. Mr. Scherf, what do you think? I just want to try to have them get it. That's fine. Yeah. Does that work, Alan? Yes, thank you. And then if this is a good time to bring up another item that we'd like to add. Yeah, this is a great time. Okay. Random has a request to add another simulcast import signal. And it's time sensitive in that the event is March 30th, so it wouldn't make the March 28th meeting because they would, if they wanted to advertise it, you know, they'd like to have it approved before then. And this way, if we get it on for the 14th, I don't have to use the authority to approve it. It'll be approved directly by you guys right off the bat if you so choose to. No problem. Okay. Thank you. Anything else on your team or March 14th? Madam Chair, we, licensing, we'll actually also have a exemption request from the registration process. We're actually going to be requesting an unexemption for a registration for Plain Ridge Park Casino. Kara, is this from Mark MGCIV asking to do it or is this Plainville asking? So there's an adjustment to the job description and Plainville has essentially indicated that they would also request it, but given what we've looked at, we think it's appropriate that we have it that position be registered. Okay, got it. Thanks. Thank you. And that's for the 14th. Do you have materials for us on that as well? Yes, we will by tomorrow. Excellent. Thank you, Karen. Thank you. March 28th. So you're going to do the administrative update on the federal legislation, but March 14th, we just roll that over. I don't know if you guys are going to call it an administrative update or not, but in the after the 28th now, March and you and anything else? Yes, we were. I don't know if there's anything else you can think of for the 28th, but we can definitely talk about the grid act. No, that's fine. I'm sorry, what was it that you were going to talk about? The grid act. So that's the federal legislation that we've been talking about. I want to be respectful of Mark because he asked for it to be an item. I just want to know, is it going to be an administrative update or is it going to be an item in the agenda? Thank you. Actually, I think an administrative update is great. It should be very brief. We can distribute a little bit of materials on it, but I think it fits well in that. Any minutes to have those? Will it be Judy and Mr. Maynard? I would have to defer Judy to get the dates out that far. I'm looking good. Give a thumbs up. Thank you. Okay, and then if you're health and let's sort of update, maybe you'll have more details on your planned event by then. Anything else? Add anything else to the legislative update? Okay. Nope. And then regulations. Okay, thanks. Regulations, we've got 15. That right, Judy? Yeah, so this is 205 CMR 15, horse racing licensing. So this is the application reg for horse racering that has been up at the state house for about 60 days for finalization. So it'll come back before the commissioners for a final vote on the 28th. We will have sports wagering items, but not right at the current time. We'll keep it there. Okay. And then Mark, you've got the research agenda. Yes, we will be ready for that. It's FY 25, not 255. Just like Ted Boingard. I don't see those two fives there. No, I don't see those two fives there, Mark. Of course not. It's my high city. Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. All right, fiscal year 25, thanks. Item number seven. Yes, we'll be ready for a series of Plain Ridge items for opening day. Opening day is? April 15th. Four o'clock post. 15th. April 15th. 15th. The 15th, yeah. Oh, that's Patriots Day, yeah? Yes, I think so. Yeah, okay. I usually do. Open them, right around them. Okay, anything else for the 28th, other than the federal legislation, I think? And we're moving to under review, those two regulations that I mentioned, Judy, we'll have those under review so that Judy and Todd, so we don't forget about them. Let's start with the ILAV review. Yeah, that's still under review. The clients committee. Still under review. Skinner's not here, but I'm assuming that the HDA is under review still, John? Yeah, that's still ongoing. It's a better, the pet restriction issue. And through and through. So you're working the legal on that. First, you're muted. You're trying to speak. Yeah, there we go. That can be removed. We've discussed this with Commissioner Skinner and she agrees that can be removed off the pending under review. Can I get off altogether? Yes, ma'am. So can I ask if maybe the others of us could get an update though on why it's been removed? Yeah, everything has been met to Commissioner Skinner's satisfaction. She agrees that shouldn't be in a public discussion, but we are open to discussing it with each of the commissioners individually. If you would. Yeah, I would like that. Okay, we'll set up a meeting. Thanks. I just want to be clear. It's a discussion about is it more appropriate for an executive session? Do you know the thing being resolved here? Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, not just to distill it a little bit and obviously more details required, but there are regulations that govern this issue that we looked at and it's addressed also in the individual house rules. So there was an initial question as to how it is addressed or whether it's addressed and we determined that it is and it is being addressed squarely. So to the point, I think it would make some sense perhaps for us to actually talk about it. So everyone can see the rules and how it's being implemented and whatnot, but as far as kind of the immediate urgency, it was looked at and that's kind of where we landed. That's why I think Bruce was suggesting that it could come off, but it's still an interesting and important area that I think warrants some discussion. So we could actually probably put it on the agenda for the 28th or thereafter and we'd be ready to go on that. I just want to make sure that we always honor our commitment to transparency. That's right. Sounds like this is a discussion that can very much be in the public. And that's good. So I think it's a matter of our regulations and considerations, Todd, you and Bruce can coordinate. So put it on for the 28th and if there's something that belongs to the executive session, obviously you've got to talk to it, okay? So the executive director cleaning can come off if we're going to drop out on the 18th, I think. Right. So any movement? No, nothing has it yet. I think we talked about maybe coming in front of the commission on the 28th. I think I'd like to wait until the next agenda setting meeting before firming that up or not. Keep it under review then. Yeah. Right? Yes. They're going to send you something, right? Yes. They're supposed to send me a packet of information. Make sure, Brian, this is one of the regs that you had raised. Should it be something that the commission consider? I don't know, you know, because it's got a lot in their hands, so I don't know if there's been any movement on that one. Justin? No, I think so. Carrie, I don't think is on, I think this is still under review. She's still pulling that language. We have not, she and I have not connected directly on this yet though. Yes, Madam Chair. My understanding is that both of the items for Carrie seven and eight are both still under review at this time. Right. Ohio examples. Yep. Nicely. Nicely can share a little in their sharing, so it's excellent. All right. And then thank you because the one that I had asked about is going on next Thursday and that's the bloating. Just go back and, you know, for discussion only. Stay tuned on that. Try to see if there'll be a schedule if there's time to give us an update. I think you find it interesting. Crystal, we can keep it under review. She might have gone off, but those quick wagering reports, you know, she's got us on a good system right now. But probably because those coordinating those dates earlier, sooner than later might be helpful for your sake. It's nothing else. I agree. I'll work on that. Yeah. I mean, it's a little bit of a draft, maybe, but yeah, sooner than they can plan. Yeah. Okay. Virtual wagering. Yeah, the virtual wagering is the petitioner is withdrawn, so we'll withdraw that on our pending as well. Nobody's asking for it anymore. Chris, can you remind me how it came up? It came up because a couple of people requested and shown interest in virtual sports wagering. And now those are our licensees. Yes. And then licensees. Yeah. And then that has been withdrawn now from the request. Okay. Should we take it off? Should we take it off then? Okay. Got it. We've got a couple of reports. Yes, I do. And I think we can keep those three under review for right now. And then Commissioner Maynard, you've got on number 15. I'm wondering if I got the language right. Is it really top that restrictions? So do you want to elaborate or are you okay with how it's written? So in short, this is about the NCAA and what they did with Ohio. I'm not sure. I know that I got a really good briefing from sports wagering and from Tom. I don't know if the fellow commissioners got a similar briefing, but I think it would be helpful. I would maybe change this item slightly, the language. Really, I'm interested to see what the NCAA thinks about what we're doing here. Are we similarly situated to Ohio in every way, shape and form, right? As far as the same level of protection, right? So really it's about protections of college athletes, I think. And whether it's restrictions on beds or whether it's anti-harassment, right? Like all sorts of issues that they're tackling nationwide. Maybe we invite eventually the NCAA to come speak with us, maybe, like a round table. They would want to. A lot of talk here at this conference, of course, on this particular issue. Marilyn also just passed, you know, no talk that's on Sweden athletes. So, to save her, you know, we're lucky, right? We're lucky in Massachusetts because we, you know, the statute already grants her that protection. So you're just really generally talking about the protection generally on student athletes. The teams might not be the right word. That was really my question. Yeah, that's correct. That's right. And having looked at the minutes because of my position, you know, we had a long conversation about how far did the harassment and how far can we go, right? On keeping a bad actor from an app, right? And we had that when we talked to the players and associations. So anyways, I think it's still a right conversation even though our statute protects certain pieces that other states are just now addressing. So I agree with you. We're lucky on that. Madam chair, really not so much an under review, but I think with the community mitigation fund with our application reviews going ahead, I think like similar to what we do with sports wagering, I think we'd like to get kind of an agenda item, put on each agenda starting with April 11th, kind of right through the end of June, sort of reserving kind of a block of about an hour on each one. And, you know, we think we'll be ready on April 11th to start coming forward. And, you know, we will, there'll be some ebbs and flows to how many we bring in each commission meeting. And some meetings that may not be any, but others that may be a lot. So I think we just like to block out those times to make sure that we've got them on agendas. That sounds good. It's going to be a little bit different because you've got your new program. Yes, yeah, well, on next Thursday, we'll kind of go over the process a little bit as well on what we're envisioning it looking like. Thanks, Joe. Anything else? Madam chair. So you guys, oh, sorry, Mark. That's right. It's early, but I would like to add it under review. It's the gambling advertising report. It's in the midst of our first round review, but I'm excited to get that out to the commission. Mark, are you doing anything for PGAN during March? Or do you want to do an update at all? Yeah, you know, it may make most sense to add that to the end of the month. And we can do a PGAN recap on all of the activities that are happening at the end partnership with our operators. Yeah, I think it should, yeah, rather than April. I think it's nice to do it in March. Okay. If you're ready. Yeah, we can be ready. So for March 28th, we'll add, okay. There's a lot happening. There is a lot happening at each of our sites, so. That's good. We need a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Back to Mr. Maynard. Yep. Thanks. Okay, Mr. O'Brien. Aye. Mr. Hill. Aye. Mr. Maynard. Aye. I vote yes. Four zero.