 Okay. Good morning. I'm calling to order public meeting number 74 of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, 10 a.m. here already, Wednesday, April 15th. This meeting is being conducted virtually given the unprecedented circumstances resulting from the global coronavirus pandemic. Governor Baker has issued an order to provide limited relief from certain provisions of the open meeting on. We've been able to take advantage of that in this case. Before we get started, I just wanted to confirm that we have a quorum. So Commissioner Cameron, I, Commissioner O'Brien, I, Commissioner Zuniga. Hi. Good morning, everybody. And Commissioner Stebbins. Hi. Good morning. Good morning. And of course, I'm here. So we have a quorum. I want to, of course, thank each of you, many of our staff members are participating today. I want to thank all of you for your individual contributions. And again, recognize that with the exceptional and agile assistance of the IT department, the Gaming Commission has been able to work really very efficiently remotely. And we acknowledge, of course, Karen Wells on leadership in keeping that efficiency going. We are a strong team. Most importantly, it is, you cannot avoid how you have continued in your responsibilities in doing so with great respect and with compassion. And for that, I am terribly appreciative. Thank you too, of course, for doing your part by staying at home. On behalf of my fellow commissioners, we give thanks, of course, for our state's leadership, public health experts and all of our frontline heroes, most notably the remarkable medical professionals and all those who support their life-saving efforts at our extensive medical facilities here in the Boston area and across the Commonwealth. We also thank our first responders. We know that they're going through a great deal right now in our hearts. So with them, our military personnel and vets who are right there with the medical professionals and the first responders, assuming great responsibilities, and then, of course, all of those who are ensuring our supply line, allowing us to stay home safely. Before we continue, I am going to ask Commissioner Cameron if she would like to share the significant news that we have regarding one of our very own members of the GEU. The soon-to-be detective lieutenant, Tim Babin, which is, by the way, quite a step up in that organization. There are many, many lieutenants, but to get to that next level really means you are in charge of a very significant unit in the state police. And it's our loss because Tim started with us very early on. And he actually oversaw each of the three openings of our three casinos. And he went there. He not only learned himself, but then he continued to, along with his teammates, he selected an amazing team to go to each casino. And I have to say, I've loved working with him. He's understood very, very much the difference between a criminal investigation and a regulatory investigation. His team understands that clearly. They have treated people professionally at every level of interaction, and that is a real tribute to Tim. And he's going into a very, very important to head up all the criminal investigations at the Attorney General's office. So congratulations to Tim. And I know he'll do a superb job there. And it will be our loss. But of course, we support all of our people who move on to higher positions. And frankly, they've had great experience here with us. And he will be very well suited to not only look at the casino gaming investigations that that office takes on, but all of the other investigations there. So again, I can't say enough about what he's provided us as a person for this organization and how long conversations with him about the differences clearly and demonstrated that leadership for many, many years for the gaming commission. So congrats to Tim Bowden. Yeah. And I'm sure that all my fellow commissioners share that. So thank you. I know many of us have been able to write him a note. So but it's very, very exciting. But the good news is that we will be intersecting with his unit. Of course, we work so cooperatively with the AG's office. So thank you for that. Commissioner will move on to item number two on today's agenda. Commissioner Stevens. Good morning, Madam Chair. In your packet, you have the meeting minutes from the March 25th agenda setting meeting. I would move their approval as always subject to any typographical errors or any other non material changes. Second. Oh, great. Thank you. Any questions, comments for Commissioner Stevens and Shah? Okay. Hearing none. Commissioner Stevens. Oh, you've already, I guess, but yeah, no, we both. Commissioner Stevens. Aye. Excuse me. Commissioner Ziniga. Aye. Commissioner Cameron. Aye. Commissioner O'Brien. Aye. And I vote yes. Five zero. Thank you. Now we'll move through the agenda planning executive director Wells. We'll start with, there she is. Good morning. I haven't spotted you yet. Thank you. We'll start with number one. All on all agendas, we look for an administrative update. I think that we would consider, but we don't have to have our next commission meeting be next Thursday, but that is reserved on our calendars. But that would be, that would be my son's 30th birthday. Yeah. He will be celebrating in California without his parents this year. Does that look like a good date first? Is that we are contemplating, Karen? Yeah, I think so. Unless any of the commission, I know generally that had been school vacation week. Now that's all, you know, changed at this point. Some schools are still going through. I just wanted to check with the commissioners as to their availability, but that would keep us getting back on to that regular, every other week cadence, which may be appropriate right now. I defer to the commissioners on their schedule, so I want to be respectful. Each commissioner, I'm just going to check in. Does that work for you, Commissioner O'Brien? It does. They've canceled school vacation week for my kids, so I think I can keep them entertained. Commissioner Zunika. Yeah, it works. They have not canceled the vacation for my daughter. She will have vacation, but we're not going anywhere. Commissioner Cameron. Yeah, no problem at all. Patricia Stevens. No problem. My kids may be going somewhere, but mom and dad are staying home. Wow, that's, I'm just kidding. Backyard. That would be a welcome vacation. Setting up a fort and a tent in the backyard and having, going on a camping trip might be a great staycation idea for those who have vacation next week. All right, so we'll presume then that we have 423. Moving on to item number two. Commissioner O'Brien, you might want to chime in too. I know that there's a regulation underway, interim acting general counsel Grossman. Hi, good morning, Kathy, and good morning to everybody. Thank you. My kids are doing flips on the couch right now. So if you're any screaming, everything is under control over here. We do have two items I'd just like to bring to everyone's attention. The first pertains to the licensing and registration vendors and employees at the casinos. And I'd like to turn it over to commissioner Stebbins to provide an overview of that one. And then there's one other that pertains to emergency action by the commission that we've been working on with commissioner O'Brien. So after the first, I'd like to turn to commissioner O'Brien, if I may. So commissioner Stebbins, if you wouldn't mind just offering a brief overview of the first. Sure. Thank you, counselor. You know, subsequent to our last meeting in the conversation around tickets and the ability for a patron to redeem their tickets kind of during the suspension period. Counselor Grossman, director of licensing Curtis and our CFAO, Derek Lennon, in addition to Jill and Jill Griffin and Crystal, we've had some conversations about what we do with some of the small business vendors whose license might be expiring during this suspension period, whether it should be counted towards their, towards the term of their license. So my hope is, you know, for next Wednesday, next Thursday, we can have a memo with some of the background that Todd and Bill and all of us have been working on and have something for the commission to consider, maybe offer some relief to those vendors, what it will take logistically and operationally as well as assessing any financial impact. But again, as I was saying, Counselor Grossman kind of raised this idea of following our conversation around extending what would amount to the year for ticket redemption and thinking about how that might apply to licensing and registering of vendors and employees. And you would be ready for that for next week? I think we can have something in the packet that'll just kind of outline all the issues and we can decide whether we want to take any action at that point or wait until the next meeting. Karen, is that work for you? Yeah, just would the expectation be you'd have something to the other commissioners by say Monday, like what should I do as far as coordinating with the other commissioners and making sure they are briefed before Thursday? Sure. Bill and Todd and I spoke this morning. We think we can have something together for the packet for Thursday and we'll try to have that out as early as we can and kind of lay out what some of the options are and what some of the issues are. This is a tough time as we know for a lot of small businesses and just trying to answer their questions as to what happens if my license is expiring during the suspension period. Considering all the other paperwork that they're doing, if they're pursuing SBA relief and assistance, we just thought we might be able to extend their license out kind of past the suspension point or at least say that it's still valid even though their license might have expired during this suspension period. So we'll have a memo that hopefully kind of outlines all of those issues. Okay, that'd be great. Okay, I'll keep an eye out for that. Thanks, Karen. Excellent. And the second item, Todd. Yeah, thanks. So we've been working with Commissioner O'Brien. Carrie, Theresa and I have worked with her to put together some draft language relative to emergency regulations and Commissioner O'Brien, if you may, if you will, I'll just offer a brief overview of that discussion. Yeah, just briefly before I do that too, I just wanted to give my own congratulations to Timmy. I shot him a note, but I actually met Tim back in the Special Investigations Unit in the AGS office. So I have full confidence he's a great pick for there and also happy to see that we're going to be able to still benefit from dealing with him when we send cases over there. Sorry to see him go. Sorry, we can't send him off in person, but I'm sure we can add that to the list of things that we're going to do when we get to the other side of this. Going to specifically the emergency regulations that we've been talking about that Todd and Carrie and I had been working on, this really came up about a month ago as we sat there. We're talking with the licensees looking at the beginning of the shutdowns caused by this pandemic and looking at our statute the various ways that we have the authority to step in in certain circumstances. And we started to think about not only this situation, but contemplating other situations that might arise in an emergency basis and be a natural disaster or something specific to one licensee that doesn't affect the others. And what we really wanted to do was provide clarity, not only for us in terms of IEB and the commission, but also the licensees in terms of what to expect in those circumstances and what the process would be. And we found that we didn't think anything sufficiently covered in on our regs. And so we've been working on addressing that with a specific reg that would deal with the types of emergency situations we're talking about and then what are the mechanisms and the processes that we could go through. It's not very long. It jumps off a memo that Carrie and Todd had been working on in the beginning to the middle of March that they are going to be prepared to do two by twos and brief the other commissioners on as well as the draft language. We did feel like it finally got to the point where we can disseminate it and then they can go out and do the two by twos so that the rest of the commissioners can and you know people from IEB et cetera can ask their questions with their comments and so we can start moving on that. Okay. Commissioner O'Brien, I really appreciate this work while we were contemplating all of our options as we recognize that operations would need to be suspended. There were just certain tools not in our toolkit and I think we could have gotten there if need be and it worked out that we didn't have to but this will add the clarity that we that will serve hopefully we'll never have to use them but you know maybe successors decades from now will need them but let's cross our fingers that we don't have to use them except for sparingly. Excellent work Todd and Carrie thank you so much. Thank you. I look forward to that two by two and you know an outline just a couple of questions that I can reserve for then. I think we have to be careful about substance now because we haven't marked up for substance but go ahead Commissioner Zuniga. Well one of them is less substantive let me just start with that. Thank you. What would we call this group is this emergency operations or emergency situations? I believe the agenda item will be marked up authority of the commission to act in an emergency situation and and then it will go through detailing what emergency situation is and what the processes are. Okay thank you. I'll reserve the other question or later because that might be more substantive. Right and and I think the way we could mark this up too it might be a two it could be and the two by twos and then one meeting and then maybe ask questions and then go back a second round you know Karen and Commissioner Bryan I leave that to you and Todd what you want to do it and it doesn't have to all be resolved in one sweep. It probably depends on the types of questions that come out of the two by twos with the other commissioners. Exactly agreed Karen. Yes and Eileen is your so is your vision that we would do two by twos before Thursday? Yes. Okay. If that's possible it's not very protracted. I know that I spoke briefly with Kathy about it and so she's somewhat aware of what we've been doing and what it's about and so it would really be scheduling you know two meetings in some form with the other three commissioners. Okay and Todd are you going to set those up? Yeah I'll take care of it. Okay thank you. So two items and Marianne good morning. If this is we're just going to keep track right now this is all for April 23rd. We want to be really cognizant of time because I think we all know that virtual is intense and and it just feels doubly long for people so we want to be really aware of timing so I'm going to leave it to our timekeeper Marianne to chime in but so those are two regulatory items. Thank you. Moving on to item number three. Good morning Alex. Dr. Lightbound. Good morning. This one can be put under review. This was left over from when we thought we were going to be opening on April 6th so now until we know for sure when the harness track is going to open we can put this item under review. Did we remind me of the status it's a June 1st right? Did we promise to look at this again though before the June 1st? Yes we said we'd review at the end of April beginning of May and that actually works well with the governor's latest decree that goes till May 4th so we may have some more information from his office as to what's available to us at that point. So right now on these notes we have it for five seven down for a potential commission meeting. Does that still make sense? Commissioner Cameron what do you think? I think it does because we will certainly have clarity by then about next steps in state government. Alex do you still like that date then rather than under review so that we could give the stakeholders or do you think that's premature? Well maybe we could just change the the wording the kickoff was originally supposed to be a description of how the racing division was airing up for the meet and what we were doing is you know with the horsemen and with Plainmage Park. So it might just be an update on why racing it at PPC maybe that wording would be good and then to have it on that May 7th meeting. Okay so update got it. Great thank you and with the five seven. Commissioner O'Brien chime in but I'm comfortable with May 7th if there's going to there should be plenty of time on that to have the independent monitor report on the um six month report as you remember we gave an extension to when when resorts so that the deadline was extended from the end of March to the end of April and they're all set you saw that right yeah no I think that date works good all right so we'll keep that on Workforce Development Grant director Griffin how are you Jill? I'm good thank you I think this is something that can be pushed off I don't know that we need to add it at this time we'll keep it under review then great thank you and then you have a following one the master's cultural mitigation program RFP update I think the RFP has I think we can also maybe get an update much later maybe when they award the grants okay so we'll keep that under review as well moving on to number seven commissioners Cameron and commissioner O'Brien I know that you were ready to go I think last time yes I just um it's just timing when we'd like to discuss this issue does it make sense now or does it make sense uh once we have more clarity on reopening casinos well commission um Karen you you had um some thought about this that this might make sense to get this work done um I had some conversation with uh commissioner Stebbins just in general about moving some things forward while we can because there is going to be a very busy time when we reopen the casinos um so I don't know if commissioner Stebbins has a comment on this particularly or is just one of these things we could move forward on if possible but I recognize that the casinos are not open right now so there's not the same sense of urgency so it's it's really but it is true that they've all they've all agreed to um your recommendations or they've been um at least briefed on them correct between licensees uh they have they and they have all um actually there there was no disagreement as to um there were a couple of uh questions and please commissioner O'Brien jump in uh to they needed a little clarity on a couple of things which was provided at the meeting so that meeting ended with with agreement with the three licensees the clarity was really uh everyone was on the same page in terms of substance and it was really a question of wordsmithing to make sure that that was properly reflected and then everyone agreed that that was in fact done um so everyone was in agreement the last time we met great so what do you recommend Gail and Eileen to take care of this business that we're looking at now five seven or the next one well we've got the 23rd and I guess then the following one is the seventh right yeah um if I don't know that it would really make a lot of sense to have them both have the independent monitor and this on the same date I wouldn't do it so we either do the 23rd or I would recommend you know the 21st I guess would be the one half of the seven that's right yeah maybe the 21st Madam Chair okay and then we've got a few things on the agenda I'm just mindful of your sitting your point that we don't want to have too many things on each meeting because these can uh they can be tough to be on a virtual meeting for hours everybody should feel comfortable excusing themselves if they need I just realize I can I can see many of you and I can um but of course uh except for my fellow commissioners you have to stick it out um thank you um item number eight Dr. Lightbound that can be left um you know till we get closer to racing okay so I'm gonna do yep and the same for number nine okay excellent and um the same for number ten okay and also for 11 okay and then um I believe we can eliminate item 12 um that's the same as number 10 so we can leave the promo fund consideration number 10 and um delete the number 12 yeah great thank you thank you good now we're on to item number 13 good morning Mark and I don't know if Teresa will be joining you is mark on I am sorry that new button good morning so this is um item number 13 the game sense impact report which I I know probably has taken a bit of a detour but do you want to give an update and of course I um Elaine just goes on this as well it's part of her work good morning Elaine yeah so the we have a meeting with KHJ who um is our contractor that's that's leading this one essential component is that we want to include some photographs that would be taken at the casino so um given the fact that the casinos are open we haven't been able to um initiate that critical piece of it so um we'll keep this as under review at this point until until we're back up and running um we do have a strong outline I think much of the content is there and it's ready to go Elaine did you want to add anything so I just wanted to add that so but the good news is is we're spending our time right now to continue to do what we can on it so like Mark said um for the most part the content is basically done um and we are going to have a meeting with them this week um just to discuss layout and as Mark already said um the one issue is that we were in the process um of setting up photo shoots at each property um obviously that's on hold but I still think we can continue to make progress um so that we'd be able to move quickly um once we're back in operation Richard Zuniga are you are you good with that yeah yeah let's let's see what um one one one thing that I'm sure it'll uh a report we'll have to we'll have to think about the some of the activities that they have been doing themselves during this period but we'll get to that when we when we get there excellent we'll keep it under review but know that um progress is being made Mark number 14 so number 14 is the play my way category one update um hold on one second I'm sorry toggling back and forth between the planning notes and and the HD um so the update um quickly is that there's been a request to delay the implementation of play my way by our category one casinos um Katrina and I had the opportunity to talk more and get additional detail with um MGM and Encore um it's a they're requesting a delay of one year um the reason being is is largely associated or exclusively associated with their need to to suspend operations um at this time um I would like to combine um the two items of 14 and 15 um and bring those before the the commission to provide you with some additional details of what what the rationale is um and plans to launch this um at a later date um I would like to get that on the commission agenda as soon as we can I think it's a timely timely issue that is relevant to everything that's going on Karen do you recommend that this go on the 23rd yes I do okay is this the May 23rd or April 23rd April okay the yeah it's May 21st both Mark and Katrina have briefed me on all of this and the um and sort of the reasoning behind the the request it all seems very reasonable given the circumstances they're in and given the financials uh component of this so my expectation is that it would be a reasonable thing to do on the 23rd this Thursday yep sounds good good thank you um item number 16 Mark the data storage yeah I would like to keep this item under review right now we've been making progress um we had a fantastic collaborative meeting with DPH Chia um and then MTC Katrina is is really involved in this project as well um we have another meeting um uh I believe tomorrow um to pull together a core group but just not quite enough for me to um to put this out there um just yeah yeah okay and how about number 17 is same um that's on section 97 okay actually I I apologize this is the challenge of toggling back and forth I was speaking of number 17 oh okay and number 16 um I would like to keep under review as well there's been some delays in and launching the revised website um research page of our website um and uh the data access project so let's just keep that under review as well okay um number 18 that's on me um I need to put a personal deadline but we'll keep it under review now if it was I'll set that deadline with you okay you can hold me accountable thank you vice versa item number 19 I think we can sorry keep that under review okay oh the six month public safety report that would include mark as well and uh commissioners uh Cameron and O'Brien number 20 yes um I can hop in here unless commissioners Cameron or O'Brien you you want to um it's ready to go um it will I I or it's close to being ready I would recommend that the first meeting in May at we could um I just want to confirm a few things with Christopher um and ensure that we have a slide deck that um is ready for the commission commission Cameron do you want to add no I I think you know mark has done a very good job coordinating with Christopher and Christopher is in a position where he's able to uh complete reports in a timely manner so I think that this is one of those items that we absolutely could um could talk about have a meeting and and and move on so I think the first meeting in May sounds appropriate okay and uh Commissioner O'Brien I know I would agree with that and I think topically if it's in fine with what's on the seventh already say again I said I would agree and it topically I think fits with oh okay that's excellent yes good point and you're all set with respect to the external uh law enforcement officers the chief and uh Everett and the surrounding communities have they seen this or your process is complete yes that it's gone through the review and feedback period with um with our local law enforcement partners as well as a research review community okay yeah and I knew you had met but they don't need to see it in advance too or do they um we will release it uh to them um before the the meeting um from what I can recall there was very little substantive change um after our meeting with them to to wrap up great thank you thanks for explaining the process all right so that will be for um the seventh um Karen number 21 is uh the compliance items update it's been kind of a yeah that's sort of been on hold as far as even what the commission wants to see as part of that given the casinos aren't open right now I think we can keep that under review uh and then once they open like some feedback from the commissioners as far as what they want to see for that type of item on a regular basis yeah I think that that's probably going to um warrant a good it'll be a public meeting of course but it might be something that we really want to chew on and together um it's kind of an atypical commission public meeting maybe just put that as a singular item at the right time to really think about how we're going to build that compliance department if you will or division or oversight you know whether it's internal team or whatever what it's what you're recommending and what we need to really think about exactly yeah we can we can figure out the right format for that discussion going forward um commissioners in a got on your uh good analysis you know these um let's just we're talking about 22 as I take it um yes let's keep you on the review I don't I know we can postpone this for a number of reasons and and now the new england market as any other market is really upended would be another reason but let me update what I have um and uh and get back to the group as to when when it might be a good discussion of course these would now begin to include data on um you know casino closures which which is which was not the original intention of these analysis but it's a relevant one so and I mean all around us but um let's just keep you on the review and I'll do the updates and get back to the group okay thank you um our quarterly reports uh Karen and Joe Joe do you know when we're next up for a quarterly report well right now you know we normally start scheduling them the second half of the month after the quarter and so the first half of that following month so we're about due to start them you know at the end of this month beginning of May uh given the circumstances I'm not sure what we're really going to get out of a quarterly report um you know other than um you know we know what revenues are and so on so I don't know if this is something we just want to defer till later or if we want to try to get it in now with sort of a minimal amount of information the quarterly report Joe remind me would be for which um the exact months this would be for first quarter of this year so January February March so we would get that actually would be through almost you know full March up to the suspension of operations on March 15 and these are statutorily required correct Todd the quarterly reports it may be a regulation but it's definitely in a regulation I think it's actually referenced somewhere in the statute too but we can double check them well um if it's I understand why it doesn't it's not going to be great to have to impose that on our licensees while they are working on big issues so I'm deferring to all of you uh do we do we um just wait and have them report and um on those going forward and maybe combine um you know when things resume operations resume combine reporting then or do we take care of past homework now that's really the choice Mr. Stebbins do you have a thought you know I don't want to see a slip too far behind I guess my question would be whether the licensees have the team available to pull the information that were regular regularly accustomed to seeing I mean if you know they're their point person on purchasing is no longer an active member of the team trying to get some of those numbers might be a hindrance to getting a good report so I have a call scheduled with Seth for later this week and I'm trying to set one up with Jackie Crumb as well over at Encore just this was going to be one of the topics of discussion of sort of what kind of horsepower do they have to actually pull this thing together and secondly what can we get out of it I know that in the past we did at 1.1 Encore was going through their suitability review uh they we did defer one of their quarterly reports at least in front of the commission they submitted it to us a paper report but we didn't have the presentation till later so that might be something we want to consider we just get a paper report for the commission to review and we can have a presentation once things are back up and running there's a bunch of ways we can do this but I'll I'll follow up with the licensees on the family I don't think we want to impose pressure commissioners soon ago yeah that's uh that's a good option um you know to explore as Joe suggests I um I was just going to make the point that we don't have to follow the same format of reports we we don't have we should not expect the same charts necessarily or the same numbers and there may be some value at least whether it's paper or presentation or both but just saying you know we did comply with you know they did comply with it in these extraordinary circumstances the report looks different but here's an update on the closures some of which we already know but it's good to you know to at least mention it because they are within the time frame um and you know and just sort of go from there they don't have to be the same type of reports just another sort of aspect throwing out there and I there might be some value I'm very I'm of course concerned about their bandwidth but there might be some value in knowing what did our licensees look like right before closure those statistics those facts that data might be helpful I agree with commissioners soon ago there's you know we do not have to stick with the formula here um and we need to be very sensitive to bandwidth but there might be you know come the new uh what is the new world and the new operations we might be questioned what did it look like and it would be perhaps very important to have that data in front of us. Commissioner O'Brien I can see that you might be no I'm echoing both what Bruce and Amike said which is um I want to be mindful of what their bandwidth is but they might be doing this also as a part of their projections and so I think what it really is is you know job reaching out to them and saying you know what could you produce in short order and to Karen's point to the extent that we check it off it's also one less thing that you know we or the licensees need to deal with when we come out and start trying to reopen but I think if there can be some modified version of it I think that's probably the way to go and it probably means finding out from each one of them what they're capable of doing yeah Commissioner Cameron yeah I agree I was just going to suggest that we that call that Joe one of them he has scheduled one of them he's going to schedule I think that will inform us as to their capabilities and I like the idea of exploring some kind of a version that may not be as as complete as it usually is due to their staffing issues so I think we could make that decision after hearing more from Joe so Karen and Joe will you just work on getting some feedback on that and then we'll keep it under review for now and it would be for all three Joe or they're all coming up yeah they all they you know I mean they all have the first quarter typically we tried in the past not to schedule all three on one day and you know some of the the licensees could get the information particularly the financial information a little sooner than others based on their internal controls and other things so but yeah it would be all three yeah so it'd be all three and of course it would be a different report anyway not as lengthy and you know maybe we shoot for the the second week in May meeting from May 21st does that make sense yeah yeah that's probably the best the best time to do it oh all right and then we'll have that that information and everybody can check it out their box I'll set then moving on to number 24 Joe and Mary and before we get started we have our own hero among us in Mary Thurlow like I credit Elaine just go for there she is for highlighting the great work that Mary has done with her her fellow quilters to produce masks that are so essential to our frontline medical professional we really are lucky to have you among us in so many ways but particularly we're happy to highlight that now it's been a gift that you've given the community and I feel selfish highlighting it on behalf of the the gaming commission because then I feel like I'm a little bit of a part of it I only wish I had your talent so thank you Mary do you want to report on community mitigation and and I should say in your heart too if uh either Joe or Mary who wants us to start where we are in community mitigation I know Bruce and Rika you've been involved too um there's a whole lot of people so we are we're proceeding a pace on on community mitigation fund um we have done our all of our initial reviews of the applications and have gone through that we are now uh I should be meeting Mary is now uh and Tanya are setting up uh meetings with all of our grant tap or all of our applicants which will be starting um week after next and running really through the end of May so we meet with each one we go over questions that we have on their applications give them an opportunity to supplement their applications answer our questions and then we work up our recommendations so we are expecting to have our recommendation in early mid-June and hopefully for the commission's consideration at the end of June now with that said we have absolutely no idea what's going to happen in the next weeks and months and you know but um our target is just to keep you know keep the program going keep it moving and keep uh you know and get these awards done by the end of the fiscal year that's our goal and uh we're so far we're sticking to it Mary do you want to chime in I don't want to put you on the spot can you unmute I can do it this way I I can I unmute you here we are there you go yeah no we seem to be making good progress um and you know as Joe said we're still waiting to hear from uh let's say the licensees still need to respond to our request for information on their uh their on the applications and uh we're just trying to plug ahead good thank you um and and thank you to Tanya who's joined that team uh a utility player Tanya is so thank you um do you have anything to add there no thank you okay sorry I was I was just gonna mention that um as part of that future discussion uh on the community mitigation um we're gonna have to make some um you to have a discussion about the revenue side um of that of that fund even though it's it's well funded so far and we've been very conservative in terms of approving monies with enough balance the lack of operation of the casinos has an impact on that fund so that will have to be also our discussion part of our discussion absolutely if we need to have that discussion in advance um amike let's let's discuss that and get it uh onto a commission meeting in advance more substantively okay okay yeah so the the you know the um the 2020 community mitigation fund we only included funds that were generated through the end of calendar year 2019 so that money has all been generated and has already been put aside into the fund for the applicants for 2020 it's going to be the 2021 money where uh you know we're taking a hit from the middle of uh march until whenever the casinos reopen and remind me jody um when we when we looked at that budget for the 2021 was the timing kind of the beginning of the year or just remind me when we looked at that so for the 2021 community mitigation fund it will be all of the revenues generated in calendar year 2020 and then when we but when we establish that or look at the guidelines that you propose and everything when do we typically do that is at the end of the at the beginning of the new year right after yeah so after we award 2020 we start our revisions to the guidelines and we usually bring those in front of the commission initially september october time frame to get any of the questions the commission may have and then you know we finalize them through november and you know usually we come out with final guidelines at the beginning of december so usually it's that about that september time frame where we're estimating how much money will have available seems to me that that that revenue discussion can be just you know we'll have new numbers obviously we always have new numbers these are definitely more numbers so but right now let's stay on the course and we will mark this continue to keep it under review or do we need to think about a date or discussion of the of the clients themselves i was thinking we might want to have something on the first commission meeting in june and we can have an initial discussion there and then hopefully the final big discussion at the second meeting in june i can see mary-ann's looking at her calendar that looks like june fourth okay so i think at that point at june fourth we might not have our recommendations completely finalized but i think that would be a good point to say hey this is how many applications we have you know give an update at that point and then do uh do the big uh meeting which you know that's a if you all remember that's a generally a couple of three hour affair going through each application and and all of that it's um it's a bit arduous if i could just chime in i know you can't see me because i've got so many screens going um it's and it has been in the past that we've broken it up into a couple of meetings just and this year we have 37 applications which is almost double from previous years so we may just want to take into consideration um if there's any we may have to discuss if there's any priority applications or um uh if if we're going to need to break them down into more than one meeting for the final discussions so that makes good sense too so we can we can assess that in our agenda setting meetings as we go along but right now it looks like it's not a may discussion it would be beginning the first second in june yeah excellent there she is again thank you any questions for anyone here i'm moving it along but i'm not my my fellow commissioners lean in if you want to say something bruce on the update on the way um that's still on um you said table though so we we yeah i i think i think for the time being we can take it off yeah take it off the agenda setting okay and then um uh dr leitham this was on hold as well does that mean the same thing or is it uh under review um we might want to try to aim for the five seven meeting they're gonna want some clarity on what their season would look like so um hopefully by then we'll know a little bit more okay any other items that you um want to add i didn't i didn't ask each so now uh this is the opportunity for any member of the staff caron are there other items that we need to think about scheduling for commission meeting not that i know of but if anyone on the staff has one please turn in well i do i do believe we um we should have a budget discussion at some point for fiscal year 21 uh wait 21 right if we're already thinking about uh june meetings we're not just putting in the you know in the notes for now uh maybe that we come back to two uh but but uh at least one uh one item that has to do a budget discussion area so we'll have budget discussion and and uh derrick does june work for you or do uh for right now if we have of course as any item comes up we always have flexibility but right now to put a place holder for june 4th yes that works there okay good thanks any other items bearing none um we have any commissioner update anything that i um we've missed discussing today that still fits within our general agenda okay do i have uh first off everybody have an excellent day there's a little bit of sunshine so uh get out take good care of yourselves and um and your families and and and be safe and we will be convening again as a as a big group um as a commission next week and i know that people are enjoying the town hall so much so thank you caron for uh for that effort and i know today i'm joining the um hr um office hour so i'm looking forward to seeing folks then too so everyone take care to have a motion so moved second thank you commissioner cameron hi mr ryan hi commissioner zuniga hi mr stevens hi chair votes yes thank you shara five zero take good care of those little ones right hi right