 Okay, thanks and we're good to go. Thank you. This is a convening of the Massachusetts Gaining Commission. It's March 20th and we're holding today's meeting virtually. So I will do our roll call. Good morning, Commissioner O'Brien. Good morning. I am here. Good morning, Commissioner Hill, who's joining us with audio. Good morning. Good morning. I'm here. Right. And good morning, Commissioner Skinner, who's joining us by audio. Good morning. Okay. And good morning, Commissioner Maynard. Good morning. All right. We'll get started today. It's gender-studying meeting, public meeting 165. We've got a call. This meeting to order officially. Commissioner Maynard, return to your minutes. Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I move that the commission improve the minutes from the January 24th, 2024 and February 7th, 2024 agenda-setting meetings that are included in the commissioners packet subject to any necessary corrections for typographical errors or other non-material matters. Everybody have a chance to look at them? Okay. Second. We have a second. Any edits? All right. Hearing none, Commissioner O'Brien. Hi. Commissioner Hill. Hi. Commissioner Skinner. Hi. And Commissioner Maynard. Hi. Excellent. We're looking now at our agenda-planning and Grace has added out some more meeting dates. So, as you team look at your work ahead, you've got some dates to work from. We're right now really at that, the two-week cadence, right, Grace? And I don't know, Justin, maybe if there are any adjudication, adjudicatory hearings that you might want to note just for the commissioners record right now in that time period? We don't have any schedule, Madam Chair, at the present. As the commission is aware, there will be a joint memo presented by Legal and IEB coming up. I think that that will likely be at the first meeting in April when that memo will be completed. It'll be quite detailed. So, we had initially thought it would be ready for next week, but we have some additional material we're adding to it. So, it's going to be, I think, quite lengthy. So, that will be presented. We're looking forward to on the April 11th meeting and at that point, we would be moving forward with scheduling the adjudicatory hearings once we get input from the commission. Additionally, I would just like to share that my understanding from talking with Director Monaghan is that many of those are in works right now because there's investigation going on. So, nothing is standing still. We're moving on parallel tracks here, so we'll be able to move them quickly forward once we decide on which route we'd like to take. So, commissioners, just stay tuned for your dates. So, I think that that session on the left is going to be really helpful for guidance going forward. All right. So, this is right now what we've got for dates. So, we'll turn to March 28th. Commissioners, you've got a person administrative update with Todd and Mark. Good morning. Good morning, Interim Executive Director and General Counsel Grestman. Good morning, Madam Chair. Yes, if Mr. VanderLinden is prepared to handle that topic, then I guess we're ready to go. Yep, I can do that. Yeah, and the two of you have coordinated. That's great. So, that will be part of your administrative update. Anything else? Uh, nothing else. No, thank you. Okay. All right, then moving on to minutes. We've got some dates there, Judy and Commissioner Maynard. Yes, Madam Chair, I defer to Judy, but we will get these done. Good morning, commissioners. Just a quick update. We're going to pull the 7, 11, 23 set of minutes. There's some references to some votes and then reverse votes that I just want to be able to look at the recording and rewatch before we bring them forward. So, we'll likely have those set, that set ready for you in April. Thank you, Judy. And Commissioner Brown, I'm going to rely on your memory. Great. Brad was there with me on all these two though, right? Oh, yeah, I don't think. Yeah, yeah. There's not a quorum issue, but yeah, yeah. Brad, I'm not looking at Brad. I am looking at you. Looking at me. I will be happy to join you, Commissioner O'Brien. Don't worry. Yeah. Thanks. All right, then we have a legislative update. Commissioner, how do you want to have something on for the 28th? Yes, please. Okay. And then you'll just coordinate specificity with everybody. All right, relations. We have the horse racing. Dr. Lightbound smiling. Sorry, I didn't get unmuted. We'll have the typical pre-meet opening items of the racing officials and the waiver of the qualifier. And those will be ready to go. I didn't notice that the S growing of the racehorse development funds isn't on the meeting for the 28th. We had moved it from this meeting to the next one. I think that just accidentally got dropped. So we've got the regulations for horse racing, which I'll turn back to legal on, but for you. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm going to head of myself here. No, you're not. It's actually, there's no more. I'm a reason. So let's just go through all of yours and we can return the escrow to the 28th. Yeah. And gray sat language is in prior agenda. All right. And then what were the other ones more precisely, please, Alex? So we have the approval of the racing officials. And key operating personnel and then approval of a waiver of the qualifier regulation. And right in the regulation, it does say that the commission can change it. So it's right in there. We're jumping forward again. We're looking to get that changed in the regulations. If the commission wants to, you know, down the line, we're doing some red changes and that's one of them that we would just change it because we've been doing it since 2018 now. So that's noted by just. Yes, Justin will have the regs for a later meeting. Yeah. Okay. Excellent. So we've got those items for racing. So back to first racing licensing regulation. Are we going to be outside for that? Yeah, that reg is often and that's been the requisite number of days up at the state house with the Senate clerk's office and is ready for a vote of final approval. That's right. Go through that additional process. Good. Okay. So we'll just note Grace that Judy is involved on that. All right. Thank you. Anything else on horse racing? No. Okay. Okay. Turn to sports wagering. Yes. We'll have a little bit of an update. We have a meeting with Valley on Monday about their sports wagering stuff and that will be the first of our hopefully many meetings with them and we'll be able to give you a little update with that. And I see down here further down the thing we have that restriction by operator. So that will be Andrew presenting on that. Did we have anything else Andrew on that that you said? No. We'll be outside for next Thursday. Yep. And that's a single item, Andrew. Correct. It's just for discussion. No vote needed. Just discussion only. Got it. And then no other sports wagering requests are outstanding. Okay. Commissioner, as I'm just going to note, I'm pleased to hear that Valley's cooperating fully with Director Ban. I don't, I think maybe we can frame it as poor communication, not necessarily lack of cooperation. Yes. They came forward and, you know, wanted to set up the meeting and this would be the first many. So. Yeah. I'm glad. That's good. That's good news. Yes. Thanks. All right. Then we have Mark, the research agenda. We will be prepared. We have a gaming research advisory committee meeting this morning, later this morning to get their feedback. So we should be prepared to share that and include their feedback for the commission before we would then bring it to GPAC for any feedback they have. Excellent. Any questions on that, everyone? Okay. Oh, so number seven. There it all is. Right. Sorry, I jumped the gun there. You know, it's so funny because I read this and then I looked at this really fast, but I think I was looking for different language and not PPC race course that the fairy comes to my eyes plays right over. So we're all set. I didn't, I didn't think we had missed you entirely. There we go. And then we've got the better, the better restriction on discussion. That's going to be a good, good conversation. And then, Mark, are you still doing an update or a long or? Yeah. Long is coordinating this piece. So we should put Long's name on there. Excellent. That's so important. Thank you. Anything else for 28? I do have one item for the 28 minute round chair. We will have an update from WinVent on the progress of their cessation with respect to the settlement of futures and parlays that wouldn't have settled within the 30 day winddown period. So they'll be prepared to do with an update on that. We'll have been 30 days, Cary. Yeah, 30 days was, I think 14. Okay. Back to the buy. Okay. Good. And, Cara, are you looking in? I am. So we will have a request for an amendment to PPC's beverage license for ready for the 28th. And then we will also have a series of exemptions requested from Encore associated with their new venue opening C Mark. So those are the requests for the service level license exemptions. Cara, not resuming action that will be taken on the 28th with respect to PPC's request. And I'm going to imagine this isn't right now a publicly recorded meeting. But given that tomorrow is my last day, I am going to publicly say that probably one of my favorite exercises is getting my signature put on liquor licenses. Just saying. I am sorry that I can't execute that one, but I was really pleased to execute a couple the other days. So full disclosure. That's kind of a fun souvenir. So thank you. Good luck to whoever gets to do that in the future. And now we'll be back now to our publicly recorded meeting. All right. Anybody else have anything? Sorry, just on the agenda item that Cara just added, I think PPC is requesting that it go early in the agenda if that's at all possible. Is that right, Cara? Yes. So that they're actually looking to launch that day. Of course, the commission may or may not, you know, choose to approve it. And they're well aware of that, but they've asked for it early in the agenda if possible. So whenever there's a request like that, I know that, you know, whoever's in chairing or whoever is in Grayson's position will always try best to coordinate that. So thanks for bringing it up. And then just a reminder maybe as the meeting is okay. That should not be a problem for this meeting. That's for sure. Mark, you don't have any external people coming in for that, right? For your research agenda. Yeah. So excellent. Thanks. Again, let's say good luck. All right. And then anything else on the 28th? Madam chair. Yes. I didn't catch whether the resource development fund as growing matter is on for the 28th. It is. Okay. So I have two by two scheduled this Friday. And I've asked a couple of times whether there was any material that can be circulated in advance to prepare. I haven't gotten any answer. So maybe Alex, Judy, you're prepared to speak to that now. Hi, Commissioner. Good morning. How you doing? You're sick. Oh, no. I'll keep it sweet. We will have those materials ready. I just needed to have one additional follow up call with outside counsel. So I can send you packet materials that will be helpful for your two by two on Friday shortly. Thank you. Oh, no problem. Okay. And other commissioners, are you all set on your two by two? Yeah, I see thumbs up. Thanks. Okay. Brad and Jordan, I'm assuming you're all set as well. Good. Excellent. And thank you, Dr. Light down and Judy for doing those two by twos. All right. Now turning anything else on the 28th? Okay. Turning them to April 11th. Okay. There'll be some kind of an administrative update. We will have minutes. Do we know the dates now always helpful but not necessary? I'll let Judy speak and she just came on. Hi there. We'll have minutes from July 11th. So the set we pulled back from the 28th and then another set from July 12th. He's putting me to work. That's what that means. Okay. Excellent. Legislative update. Brad and Grace. Commissioner Hill? Please put that on because I think by then the budget will have been released by the house and we can give you an update if there's anything in there that affects the mass gaming commission. All right. And always helpful to include Tom Mills because he's got some good background. And then regulations. You know that for our head down. Carrie, good morning. Good morning again. Yes. We will be prepared to bring back to 57 the data privacy regulation that had come three a month or so ago to discuss those amendments again. Right. I can also note that Alex and I have been working on several different racing regulations which will be coming before the commission for the first time on the 11th. I can give you the citations now if you'd like them. So that would be 205CMR 329 subsection two F which is we're clarifying some language about multiple drug violations. We'll also be bringing a edit to 205CMR 6.24 which is about deposits to ADW accounts and 205CMR 3.12 subsection seven and subsection 20. That's a section on judges that'll be clarifying some of the information that Alex just mentioned about the qualifying races as well as increasing judge's discretion on the fines associated with penalties which I think was due for an update frankly to be in conjunction with some of the industry guidelines that we rely on in racing. That's great. Really good progress clarifying. I see Commissioner Bryan is nodding her head. I'm sure you feel the same way I do. That's excellent. I do. Yeah, that's great. Okay. Anything else on carrier Todd on regulations? I'll set for that thing. Okay. Hey, sports wagering. Anything? We will have something but not at this time. Thank you. Okay, we'll keep that space and I know that I see. Good morning, Mary. I understand the quilt show was a big hit and I'm sorry. I had an unexpected house guest. My son showed up for lunch, with lunch, I should say. It went well. Yeah, we had a terrific time. We were blown away by how many people showed up, really. We've been doing this for a long time, so it's a well-known quilt show. So we had a great time. Everyone loved it. Congratulations. Maybe next time. So we would like to reserve 90 minutes for the April 11 date. I think we're going to be reviewing seven applications at that point. And you'll have materials for the commissioners to review in advance. Yes, and we'll probably set up two by twos. Okay, excellent. All right. Thank you, Mary. Thank you. Okay, team. Anything else for April 11? As Justin mentioned earlier, we should have the memo regarding the judicial hearings on it. Okay. Anything else? Thanks, Caitlin. Anything else? We will have another beverage amendment for Encore on the 11th. It's all beverage all the time at this point. All beverage all the time. That's good. So that will be for Encore. That's correct. The other amendments to beverages as well, did I hit that right? Yeah, so the Encore piece that's going to be on for the 28th is the position exemption. Oh, positions, okay. That's and things like that. It is for Encore, but the actual beverage amendment will be ready on the 11th. Got it. Thank you. Okay. Anything else? All right. The next date, right, would be the 25th of April, right, for a regular public meeting. Yeah. Anything that folks want for the 25th, Mark? I'm prepared to move the job quality report from under review to the 25th. So yeah, so if we could do that, and then I have one other item as well. For the 25th? Right. A new item, a discussion of Massachusetts participating in a national voluntary self-exclusion program. Anything else? Anything else for the 25th? Oh, yes. I'm sorry. If we could add a game sense quarterly update. Okay. Anything else for the 25th? That's a start. Madam Chair, you could add another 90-minute segment for the Community Mitigation Fund. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sure sports wagering will have an item by then. We'll put, we'll definitely have that standing item, right, and the other standing items. Yes. We've got, so we have a responsible gaming and we've got community mitigation. I'm not hearing any people or regs at this point. Okay. Okay. So now under review, I'm set to stay under review. Yes. That's fine for under review. Okay. Commissioner Bryan. Yeah, still under review. Hopefully we'll get moving, you know, come April with the new ED and moving forward, but for now under review still. Okay. Commissioner Skinner and Mary, the HCA compliance, Mr. Skinner? You can keep that under review. Thank you. Okay. Uncle or East of Broadway, Mary? Yeah. That's under review, please. Okay. Commissioner Bryan and Kerry, looking at the emotional bonus, right? Yeah. We have to touch base. I was actually glad to see her in the office today. I think she and I can try to touch base today on that, but I think it's still under review for now. Okay. Great. Item number six was one I brought forward has Kerry, I think that you are aware of the issue, just as a reminder of the issue, I believe Ohio has mandated the multifactorial authentication. And right now the way our rights work is that they're required to have that capacity, but not required to actually, they don't require patrons to use it. I think maybe two of our licensees might have that mandated. My suggestion, if I were still here, would be that we consider mandating it, but of course we haven't heard from under stakeholders to know if there's some unforeseen consequences to that, but it's something to explore. And it all came, if you remember, out of some suggestions that the KYC had some holes, if you will, at least anecdotally we're hearing that. Okay. Item number seven, again, that is something I put on. I'm happy to take it off unless folks want to keep it on, but I am DPH is an important collaborator and partner for us. And I think everybody would be benefited if they heard from DPH on their program, so that everyone was hearing the same information at once. Should we keep it under review? Madam Chair? I think so. Yes, Commissioner Hill. I was going to say, I would like to keep that on as well. I think it's an important issue that we need to keep on our radar for sure. Okay. So I see Commissioner O'Brien is also nodding her head. So I'll put the two of you. I'll give you the contact information and maybe you can keep that invitation online. That'll be nice. Okay. All right. Sports waging operators, a quarterly report. Crystal, I don't know if she's here or I see her. She's listening. That's a surprise when you're right there. Hi. Yes. So I have not gotten those worked out yet, but I will continue to work on that. Right. Looking at, they're due April 15th, so it would be later April. Right. And just a little bit, Grace, I don't know if you've been here since, but Trudy can help as well in terms of scheduling with Crystal, but it's kind of worked out to have a couple of days dedicated to those. Yes. And now that we have some meeting dates already booked, we can look at what's in between that too. So yeah, I'll work on that. Excellent. Thanks. And then we're moving the casino job quality, Mark. Correct. And then we have the general population survey report. Keep under review. I'm working with Grace to identify a date for that. It may end up falling off of a really scheduled commission meeting and into a meeting on its own. Yeah. I think I suggested that so that people can really dedicate their full brain to it. Yep. Okay. And then we move the evaluation. Is that still under review or you're close on that? We're close, but I think we should keep it under review. Okay. I want to get that out. Okay. Okay. Commissioner Maynard, restrictions on pop bets on teams. So we talked about this, I think last time. I would actually reclassify what that section is and make it more about, I think the NCAA had some requests. Maybe they had sent a draft letter, chair. I think you and I received something back last summer. I'm interested to see if there's any way we can partner with the NCAA on some of the things that they're asking for. Again, knowing that the statute always takes care of a lot of what Ohio did a few weeks ago, but understanding that there were some other player protection provisions and so forth that they've sent around the country. So I would really turn this into a matter of, you know, can we make it more, can we have more protections for players and others? Marilyn also has followed the adoption of a measure to protect student athletes. The conversation is definitely going the right direction. Yeah. I do know that in terms of what we received, I think both of us shared the best, our best contacts to help them on that. And in terms of the individual items that you're, I think maybe clarify those with the commission going forward. Okay. Okay. The gambling advisor advertising report. It's still under review right now, but hopefully next meeting we can assign a date to that. Okay. And then this would be legal and IAB process. This would be through. That will be coming off for April 11th. Oh, this is for the adjudicatory hearings. Do you know what I'm looking for that's not on here? Caitlin is the policy for, I want to get this right. Groups, BNC, two and three, two and three. Certainly put those on under review, but I think the plan was to spend some time with the process and see how things are going and then memorialize it. So I don't see those coming up in the immediate future. Okay. So do you want it under review or no? I wouldn't leave it. And then, you know, at some point we can remember if the commission feels like we're at a point where we're comfortable with the processes, we can put those down into a formal memo. If that sounds right to everyone. Yeah. Well, at some point, if it doesn't come up formally, it will happen, you know, as you make decisions. So, all right. And so number 14 would take up. I'm just looking at my notes. We talked about this yesterday, Commissioner Hill putting on under review a couple of things that we're working with Derek on. And commissioners, you remember Derek and John did presentation on procurement and the outstanding issue would be, you know, setting up thresholds for procurements when the number of the dollar amount that commissioners might wish to adopt for commission involvement. There they are. Good morning. Do you want to add in there, or John? No, we'd hear for any questions. Oh, I don't mind you adding in. Yeah. So this is just a follow up on that training regarding procurement process, the levels that already require oversight agencies to take a look and then sitting with the commission to set a threshold for when they would want to be involved. And I keep equating it to when we did this with hiring of employees. And we said, what's the involvement the commission wants to have, as well as what's that threshold? Because that threshold starts a conversation. Do you actually want to be on the procurement? Or do you just want regular updates on the procurement and what's that cadence? So that's the next step for that one. So, Commissioner, do you want to have that discussion in advance in one of those APA meetings, or do you want to keep it under review? I think we keep it under review for now. Commissioner O'Brien, are you leaning in? That's just about to say what Commissioner Skinner did, the lack of everybody jumping up for a date. I think it should probably stay under review for now. Yeah, unless there's specific dates coming out on major contracts, let's just keep it under review. Okay. All right. Anything else to go under review or something that you may have thought of? Madam Chair, we will actually, PPC's beverage license will be up for renewal in the end of June. So we've already started that process with them, but we wanted to put it under review just so that it remains on the commission's radar. Yeah. Yeah. So that's the full moon. Correct. Anything else? Okay. Thank you to those who were involved with feeding us this morning. It was very nice. Thank you. And he was in early. And again, for those of you who are identify as female, happy Women's History Month. It's a time to celebrate what so many women have done to allow us to have privilege of our positions today. So thank you for that. And unless there's some other business, I'll make a motion to adjourn. Move to adjourn. Thanks, Commissioner Hill. Thank you very much. Yep. All right. Commissioner Brian. Hi. Commissioner Hill. Hi. Commissioner Skinner. Hi. And Commissioner Maynard. Hi. And I vote yes. Five, zero.