 All right. Yeah, I'll start it up. Okay. Also. Okay. Good morning. Today is November Monday, November 13 2023. This is the second public meeting for the screening committee for the executive director for the gaming commission. I am chairing the subcommittee. I am a commissioner. I'm the O'Brien and having called the meeting to order because we were doing this remotely right now. I'm going to do a roll call. So commissioner Maynard. I'm here madam chair. And Derek Lennon. I'm present. Heather Hall. And Dave Muldrow. You're muted. You're muted Dave but I can see you. I am here madam chair. Okay. And also with us are our attorneys. Dave Mackie and Annie Lee from A&K. So the first order item number two on the agenda would be a short update just on the status of the executive search firms from Dave Muldrow. Certainly. We have, we confirmed three executive search firms. I have reached out to each. I've had onboarding discussions with all three. They have been completed. And currently they are active. Great. And I don't have anyone has any questions for Dave before we move on to item three. No, seeing no questions. Item three is discussion of the process for the review of candidates and selection of finalists for the position of executive director. I know having sweet, having spoken with A&K that the details in terms of the process, how many finalists that sort of thing we're going to do in public. And I believe there's some, we'll have to have some conversation in public about how in depth we want to go. We're not going to be talking about exact questions that candidates are going to get, but we'll probably be talking about topics and areas of expertise and experience that we all, as the body of five would like to talk about. We can talk about that today. We can talk about that in very general terms or we can move on to what we did last week, which is diving into some of the candidates who have since submitted since the last meeting. Yeah, I think, if I may, Madam Chair, I would add on that is that the, obviously you can have, you know, whatever discussion you think would be helpful in public session. Public session discussion has to be limited to interview and consideration of specific candidates. So, but I totally understand reasons why you wouldn't want to get into the exact questions you'd want to ask every candidate and all of that, but certainly a general discussion on that issue would have to take place in public session. How would the, you know, the process and other logistical details. So, we, we agreed in the last public session that we wanted to see the candidates at least the first wave through that we went through before we had that discussion. I am fine moving forward with it, the ones that we've gotten since the last meeting, and then queuing up process for the next meeting but I wanted to put that out there to the other four to see if anyone feels that we should be talking about the process now before we go back in and continue to review. Derek. Well, I think, I think Commissioner Maynard had his off first and then I'll hit that's that I'm sure it will help them for me, Derek so I would let you go but the, I just want to say chair Brian, I think that I agree that we should continue on looking at that. I am curious since Dave's on here, what the, you know, how exactly do we go formulating the questions and then just an offer to, you know, I'm happy to help draft as as one member of this body, start drafting some some questions at some point for you but I want to make sure that I do it in a proper, proper way in a proper set. I was just going to say that I think, going into the candidates I don't think we have that money, unless I missed an email. So, I think that's the right route because we're still waiting for the executive search firms to get us the three or four candidates from each of them so I think it is a little early to start talking about questions. And I think the Commission had in your bigger conversation, some kind of overarching areas that you want to see that we should probably review that meeting those couple of meetings to make sure we're hitting on all those topics. Prior to starting that discussion of what areas we want to ask questions on. Right. And then the only other question that I wanted to throw out was the, you know, the statute has the five commissioners doing the hire. So we have two commissioners on and we have, you know, three staff on so in terms of the dynamics of the two commissioners in terms of their role whether it's appropriate for Commissioner Jordan and I to maybe sit down and I asked this as a question for you, Dave. And I throw this out for consideration is that whether we as the two commissioners sort of take a lead role in terms of the process. And whether that's acceptable under the screening committee rules. With respect. You mean with respect to the other members of the commission or no with the expected the other three members of the screening committee. I, you can you can divide up tasks or leadership roles or areas of responsibility amongst the five of you and whatever way the five that that's right. Okay, right. And then the two of us wouldn't be the quorum and so we could Commissioner Maynard I could in fact have those conversations and come back to the broader group right. Yes, you could. Okay, great. I don't know if anyone else had anything else to add. If not, we can move on to number four, which is going into potentially executive session to consider actual candidates. So I don't see any questions, Heather, did you know. So I'm going to move on to item four, which is the executive session that was noticed on the agenda. And the committee anticipates it may meet an executive session in conjunction with the initial screening process to consider specific applicants for executive director in accordance with general chapter 30 a section 21 a eight. The chair declares that an open meeting will have a detrimental effect on obtaining qualified applicants for the position. And I would so state that at this meeting, the committee anticipates that the open session of this meeting today will not reconvene at the conclusion of the executive session. And so we would need a motion and a second vote to go in. Madam chair, I move that this body go into executive session for the reasons articulated and delineated by yourself. Second. So I'll do a roll call because we're hybrid. Krishna Maynard. Hi. And CFO Lenin. Hi. And director, Heather Hall. Hi. And director Dave Muldrew. And I am I as well so that's five zero to go into executive session again we will not be returning into the public session at the conclusion of that. So I think anyone who was watching, but this will be the end of the public meeting. And we will convene for the executive session. Thank you guys.