 Good morning commissioner O'Brien. Good morning. I am here Good morning. Good morning commissioner Hill Morning, I'm here Good morning Good morning commissioner Skinner good morning. I'm here, but we'll be off camera Okay, and good morning commissioner Maynard. Good morning, madam chair. I am here Okay, excellent. We will get started again As I mentioned, this is a public meeting of the Massachusetts gaming commission We have only one item on our agenda for today And that is to offer an opportunity to interested members of the public to provide comment Relative to any or all the applications that have been submitted to the Commission for a category one Sports Wadring Operator License This part of the licensing process is governed by the Commission's regulations at 205 CMR 21218 excuse me 0.05 My name is as I said Kathy Juddstein. I'm chair of the Commission So I've introduced my fellow commissioners, but again, we have commissioner O'Brien Commissioner Hill, commissioner Skinner and commissioner Maynard joining me We have three applications that have been submitted for a category one sports wagering Operator license to an entity that holds a gaming license issued under the casino law a Category one license affords the licensee the ability to conduct in-person sports wagering operations at their existing Gaming establishment and to conduct mobile operations through up to two separate platforms Each of the three entities I mentioned holds such a casino license. So they are eligible under the sports wagering law GL 23 n for a category one sports wagering license But I'm breaking general counsel harassment. Did I fail to mention the three entities names? Yeah, you skip that part. Yes. Thank you. I do want to note the names They the applications are from blue tarp rate development LLC, which does business as MGM Springfield We've received from win mass LLC, which does businesses on core of Boston Harbor and from playing Plainville gaming redevelopment LLC, which does business at plain Ridge Park casino. My apologies. They just have a little bit of a tech issue So again, as I mentioned Each of those entities hold a casino license. So they are eligible under the sports wagering law chapter 23 and of the the general laws for a category one sports wagering license Beginning tomorrow and then on Wednesday and Thursday the Commission will evaluate individually each of the applications that have been submitted To be clear, the Commission will not be voting as to whether to award the license today But we'll do so only at some point after the respective evaluations over the course of the next three days In preparation for those upcoming evaluations the Commission is Interested in any information or comments of the public may wish to offer relative to any or all of these applicants Affordingly your presence here today and the written comments that have been submitted will be helpful in making those decisions Thank you for being part of this process Before we begin taking public comments I would like to lay off the process and establish the ground rules that we will follow today This meeting is intended to afford an opportunity To offer input and comment on the category one applications to any entity or member of the public who is interested This meeting was not designed for anybody to offer opinions about sports wagering in general About the way the Commission has gone about its work or about an entity that is applied for sports wagering license in a category other than category one Instead for today, we are solely interested in learning as much as possible about the applications presently for us Momentarily we will open the floor to public comments to make the best use of our time We ask that any member of the public proceed as follows in addressing of the Commission First if you pre-register to speak at this meeting your name has been added to the speaker list I will begin calling the names from that list if there is any time remaining I suspect we will have such time We will open the floor to comments from any other individual who is interested in offering comment When I call your name, please unmute yourself and state your name and tell us where you're from And who you're affiliated with Third to ensure that anyone who wants to speak gets an opportunity to do so we will limit individual comments to three minutes 15 second morning will be issued if necessary and we will be expect the speaker to begin wrapping up their comments I'll note that we will allow an additional 15 seconds if necessary For this is not an opportunity for members of the public to ask questions of the applicants if they appear at today's hearing If you have questions of them, please address them to me And I'll figure out a way how to proceed from there Any commissioners ask any question of any commenter at any time We are grateful for the public's participation and value of your input Finally Particularly given that this is a virtual format. We recognize that Great passion that many of you may have for this subject matter often from multiple perspectives We welcome your comments to reflect that passion However, in order for this part of the process to achieve its greatest value It is tremendously important that this discourse here today be respectful This is one area that I'm confident that we can all agree upon And for those who have submitted written comments about any of these applications Please know the commission will review and consider each and every one of them Thank you for taking the time to send them in For those now interested in submitting written comments We are continuing to accept them on a rolling basis up through our licensing process Colleagues my fellow commissioners, do you have anything you wish to add at this time? I'm I'm hearing nothing and I'm seeing heads indicating no, so thank you very much We'll get started and I believe our first speaker is vice Chair of the select board in plainville. Good morning, Jeff. Mr. Excuse me vice chair Good morning Madam chair and members of the massachusetts gaming commission Thank you for the opportunity to speak this morning. My name is Jeff Johnson I'm a resident of plainville massachusetts and I serve as the vice chair of the plainville select board I first want to congratulate and thank the gaming commission for moving forward With the development and implementation of the sports wagering process We look forward to this process bearing fruit early in the new year In particular here in plainville. I will be grateful to know that the cars we see exiting the commonwealth Carrying our money to the sports wagering And table games just across the border from us will have options to keep And spend and enjoy our money in our state On behalf of plainville, I'm here to recommend the application of our outstanding partner Plainville gaming redevelopment doing businesses plain rich park casino I believe the state will find no better partner for this initiative Since their beginning they have demonstrated their ability to quickly safely and effectively work with the community and the state On new regulations new business opportunities and through dynamic times In particular since the involvement of penn national now penn entertainment in 2014 They have combined timely and effective response to the challenges and opportunities Which present their business in our community with an unwavering commitment to a long-term plan of success and growth They've managed every potential concern we have had as a community Throughout their operation smoothly And brought us a business partner of economic benefit Without being impacted by some of the concerns our residents and our community had feared I believe that record of success will continue with sports wagering The importance of working with a partner with demonstrated capability to learn Adapt and work with us is invaluable both to my town and to the commonwealth I have in the past and could again speak for a long time about the value plain rich continues to place on their partnership With our communities on what a good neighbor they are every single day Just last week our food bank was approached with a potential tonation of 32 frozen turkeys if we could find a place to store them Plain rich immediately stepped up and offered freezer space And didn't bat an eye when the truck pulled up and asked if we could actually take 80 turkeys Their responsiveness whether it be to taking on 48 extra frozen turkeys on a second notice Or securely and safely working with a new sports wagering process Will never be called into question The success is not limited to just plainville besides the jobs and other direct economic benefits they provide us They're one of the three cornerstones of the tri-town destination partnership among plainville foxburn rentham This will only increase the value of this partnership We believe this is a key to further economic growth for this corner of the commonwealth We'll find no better partner for implementing the program They've been a wonderful member of our community a caring partner an effective economic engine for our area and for their industry I urge the commission look favorably upon the application of plainville gaming redevelopment I would be happy to answer any questions commission may have respectfully submitted Jeff johnson vice chair plainville select board Thank you vice chair johnson Questions commissioners are we all set? I know that we had a second. Thank you so much for your comments and And you have In writing if you wish to submit them in writing as well, please do. Yeah, I will send the written copy Now that I've said it Thank you. Thank you so much um I know that we had a second registrant. Um, mr. McDevitt kevin McDevitt. I'm not sure if he's joined us He may have learned that his his question may not have been directly related to the application So perhaps he'll submit a written comment in a different one Okay with that I am looking at the names I I see one name that I don't recognize but maybe part of the Of applicants Um He is there anyone who wishes to make a public comment and we don't have any phone calls coming in well, um commissioners This um window will stay open through one o'clock So what we suggest doing is um Muting ourselves and and video outing ourselves and keeping this um meeting open And crystal will keep us advised um as to And when we need to To rejoin probably you'll hear my voice Okay, so thank you for staying close uh to your work Uh computers that I know there's plenty for you to be doing. So thank you with um We'll put up a screen saver now correct, dave Yeah, I can toss one up Okay, excellent. Thank you so much. Thank you commissioners Dave do we still have the one that we have before where it says to message mgc comments if They get on Can we call that one? I'm muted. I can look to see if we have it. I know I have the hearing we'll resume shortly I don't really delete graphics. So it should be someone What's trying to remember if it was Free you if it was with austin or not, but either way I think Well, that's helpful because if they get on and they don't know that they can't Get unmuted They could just email us and actually it might be my email It may have not been mgc comments because I can't even check that If not, I can put one together and we can have the hearing will resume shortly one thrown up there for a little bit And I'll I'll have it on so I'll hear if someone comes in but uh, if you hear and I'm not around Someone around right now. Um, just give me a text. I've got my Thank you. Sounds good. Yeah, I'll put one together now because I'm not sure I'm not seeing it right now Okay. Yeah, it can just be Um, yeah, just do my email. I think that's easier. Okay Thank you Okay, Dave Should be all set now Thank you Richard Skinner are you there? I am here. Okay, great. So, um Thank you everyone. I'm going to do a roll call because this is again That they reconvening at the master's this game commissions public meeting and public hearing today That we've held um in connection with the category one applications that will start to be dealing tomorrow So because we're holding this meeting virtually after our break Take a roll call Good afternoon commissioner brian. Good afternoon. I'm here Good afternoon commissioner hill. Good afternoon. I'm here And good afternoon commissioner skinner Good afternoon. I'm here Excellent and good afternoon commissioner mayor. Good afternoon madam chair. I am here Thank you. So i'll turn to crystal Uh crystal. Have we received um any notice of any more uh further interested parties? Nope no further updates. Okay. Well, we're all set. Okay, and uh So commissioners unless there's further business because this is a public meeting as well as the public hearing We would have a motion to adjourn, but I want to give you a chance for any further business All right Hearing that I would move to adjourn madam chair. Thank you Second Any further discussion? All right, mr. O'Brien I Commissioner hill. Hi Commissioner skinner. Hi Commissioner maynard. Hi I vote yes. Thank you everyone and thank you to public who contributed today orally and in their written comments Have a good day everyone