 And we're good to go. Great. Thanks, Dave. Good morning. This is the convening of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. We're holding this meeting virtually, so we will conduct our roll call. Good morning, Commissioner O'Brien. Good morning. I am here. Good morning, Commissioner Hill. I'm here. Great. Thank you. Good morning, Commissioner Skinner. Good morning. Good morning, and Commissioner Maynard. Good morning. Good morning. All right. We'll get started. Good morning, Trudy. I see you there. I know Commissioner Maynard that you wanted to address that we won't have minutes today. Is that right? Yeah, we're all caught up except for the last meeting and had something come up and we're just going to roll those over. That's right. Okay. So we'll get started on the agenda planning. Commissioner, if you have the anticipated meeting schedule, is there anything that you're concerned with, with respect to those dates? My camera seems to be doing something funky. Does it look okay to you? Or a little blurry today, Madam Chair. Yeah. Oh, I wonder why. I kind of feel a little blurry. No, just joking. I'm glad that it's that and not my eyes. So if there's any trick to that, I'll let Mills let me know, but I'm here and not as blurry as I look. Okay. So we've got December 7th coming up right on Thursday. And we will be having the quarterly reports. We'll turn right to December 14th. I know we have a 930 start and Commissioner O'Brien. I think you noted that you do have a little bit of an early time on the agenda. So we have a little bit of an early time on the agenda. Departure. So I'm thinking of you for agenda order. So let's just keep that in mind as we go through today. Got a bunch of minutes. Commissioner. First we'd have an administrative update and Todd, did you want to go over those? Sure. Good morning, everybody. So one thing I thought would be timely for administrative update purposes on the 14th would be an update. That would be the end of the racing season and an overview of how everything went as well as a brief discussion of the annual report that the will be filed relative to the racing operations. So if everyone is so inclined, we'll be ready to do that on the 14th. Okay. So is that item 11 that you're going to move? That'll be under. That's right. Under administrative update. The only concern would be as if that makes the day go a little bit later. You can see that in consideration, Todd, where it comes under the report. And did you also want to just briefly bring everybody up to date on that Thursday about the insurance policy as well? I'd be happy to. That's not urgent. I can do that at a later meeting. The thought just was it might be helpful at some point, just to mention the condition, the terms and conditions of our directors and officers, insurance policy coming up for renewal in late January. We have been working with our broker to renew that. And I'd be happy to talk a little bit more about it at an upcoming meeting. I can do it on the 14th, but we can also do it at the following meeting if that would be helpful. Okay. Let's just make a note of that then for the next meeting, because I think the 14th will be pretty busy. Okay. Let me have commissioner Maynard. Bunch of minutes. Well, I would say we have March 8th and March 9th. I have finalized. I know that I gave some dates that were later in March, the last agenda setting meeting that said they're still not finalized. Okay. I would put them, I would hold them on there just in case we do get them finished. Yep. But, but I know March 8th and March 9th are complete. And these are expensive minutes. So all right, we'll just keep them on. And then of course we can roll them over no problem. Thank you. Okay. The legislative update, we'd hope for maybe that legislative letter and I know Todd, you're busy working on that trap for us. After some good meetings. Yes, I had some brief discussion with commissioner Hill. I think we'll be ready to go for the 14th on that. Okay. Thank you. And then. Todd, I've got regulation numbers here. They are may or may not be accurate. Forgive me. I don't think there, but yeah, we'll let Caitlin address that. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. We have on for a final vote on the 14th or 238.12. And 258. We are, we continue to work on 205 CMR 15. So I'd like to just put that, take that off for the 14th and we'll add it back on as soon as we're ready. So take off 15 and it was 238. That might have been a type of my. Yeah. And then 258. I looked at it and I didn't look familiar just now. So thank you. And then we'll just hold on 15. Okay. And if you decide you want the under review, just let me know. Okay. Any other regs? That's it for the 14th. Unless anyone else really go ahead. Okay. And then we turn to you commissioners or Brian and Maynard on the mission statement. Yeah. I mean, I think we're ready to go and present it. That will be, we will send that over for them. So how does that work? Do we see that in advance? Or I never understand the rule. Don't know because we were involved. And I believe this is illegal, whether we're going to have, this might be one of those. We give it to you on the 14th. And then we. Kind of take a vote on it the next time. So you all have a chance to digest it. I think we might have to do it that way. So maybe then we think about that for our calendar to. Commissures, right? So. Of the document itself. And then maybe the theory forth. The adoption of it. Yeah. That makes, yeah. And that would. You would get input from us. At the fourth. Yeah. And if it's, if it's substantive enough that it needs more time, we can go out another meeting. Okay. Excellent. All right. Thank you. And then you're also with. Chief module involved on the internship program. program. How are you? Yeah, I will call that more of an update, as I said last time. I think that, you know, it's not as prime time, it's definitely not as prime time as the mission statement is. So, but we're happy to give you an update of where we are and what we've done on that day. Okay, and I see Tripti's there too. So she's done a lot of work, a lot of good work on it. Okay, I'll make sure to include you, Tripti. So, thank you. It's an update on on our notes. That's how I'll put it on the agenda commissioners. Okay. All righty. Then we turn to sports wagering. Good morning, Bruce and team. I guess it's actually starts with maybe those waiver requests. So, it's a director band and then, um, turning monohand. I'm forgetting who it is. Can you remind us where we are on that, Caitlin? Sure. So, there was one waiver request, a 257.0 subsection three where draft kings was given an extension through, I want to say the 15th. And so they were going to come back to the commission with additional information about whether they needed or they were going to request additional waiver time. And then there were a number of requests related to 257.04 that basically didn't get to and rolled over to this meeting. And so that's what's left for discussion by the commission. Just as an update, draft kings does not have an additional waiver request. Oh, they've withdrawn that. They think that they can comply with the original waiver. So the 0.02 subsection three, Crystal, we can take that off. Just a triple check, but I believe so. And I'll add your name to this mission. Take it. And so they've withdrawn that request. Okay. They won't be requesting an additional waiver. So, Caitlin, can you just remind me, did the commission vote on their original waiver? Because it's just for the, there won't be an additional request. They had put in a waiver on that. If memory serves, the waiver went out through the 15th in order to give the opportunity for additional time if requested. So I think the waiver would expire on the 15th if there's not going to be a new request. I'll confirm today, chair. And then if it's going to be on the agenda, I'll let you know for sure. But I believe they're just, they're good to go. Okay. So it's 15th of this month and that was a universal waiver, right, Caitlin? I think you're right. Yes. Yeah. Okay. All right. So that just leaves the outstanding ones that we didn't get to commissioners for 257. Oh, four and Crystal, I'll add your name there. I know you all are working in concert. Thanks. Anything else on that? Okay. Then we turn to sports wagering, Bruce, and I think it's a house rules issue or request. That is pending a information sheet from GLI on one of the progressives wagers. So you mean? We're waiting on a certification. The house rule updates are going to be pending a GLI certification, but the certification may come at the end of this week. However, we'll keep the commission apprised as we move along the week. Okay. So we'll keep it on. And then if it turns out you need more time, we'll roll it over. Okay. Yeah, correct. Thank you. And Andrew will be there. Right. And as of right now, the 90 day audit is on. Okay. And Christian will be there. Yeah. Alrighty. And then item number 10. That's Dr. Lightbone. Dr. Lightbone, I know that you haven't been feeling well. So thank you for appearing today. Oh, thank you. There's our our offices apparently been hit quite hard with all kinds of stuff. So I hope everyone who is not feeling great is on the men. So thanks. I can attest to that. Yeah. Dr. Lightbone, are you going to share your voice with us? Yes. Yep. All good. And we should we're ready to go on the simulcast and premium free and account wagering approvals. Okay. Great. And then I know that just talked about the racing annual report. Do you have a sense, Dr. Lightbone, about timing on either of those? Just I'm thinking of Commissioner Bryant's day. Yeah, we were realizing that this was a full meeting. And, you know, the end report doesn't have to be voted on by the commission. So we thought that maybe it would make sense, you know, rather than obviously we don't want to read the entire report to the commission, maybe put it under the administrative update. And Cad and I just do a very brief, you know, high level on the annual report. This is for 2022. And, you know, I would say, you know, maybe take 10 minutes at the most. And, you know, just if the commission wanted, you know, do the high level and then say that it, you know, will be posted on the website for anybody to view. And then, you know, the update on this season, again, very brief, maybe five minutes from me, just saying that, you know, the meet is concluded and how it went. Okay. Great. But thank you for that. And we don't want to shortchange you. That's the main thing, Dr. Lightbone. So it's what you're comfortable with. And yeah, Chad and I are comfortable with that. Okay. Good. That works for the commission as well. Commissioners. Sounds good. Good. Alrighty. Then we're moving on to a report on diversity and and Niswa, do I see her? I see John Scully. There he is. Are you all set for that? Do you need more time, John? I'll set. I think it's going to be short and sweet, about 10 minutes. We'll just give an update on where we're at diversity-wise from GC. And that will reflect what we saw maybe at the GPAC meeting a bit. It's an update on our current diversity spend numbers, and there may be some information following up on the GPAC, as you said. Okay. Good. But it's mainly on spend. That's correct. Okay. Thank you. Any questions on that, commissioners? All right. Thanks, John. And then turning to IEP, you've got a couple of matters here. One had been rolled over from last week or two weeks ago. Heather, the non-compliance matter for tracking. Yeah, that's right, Chair. We're estimating that it will probably take less than a half an hour, and Zach will be ready to do that on the 14th. Okay. And what action will we be taking? I think that this particular meeting will be the meeting where essentially Zach will brief the commission on the non-compliance matter, and then the commission can determine how they would like to proceed, whether they'd like to send it back to the IEP or to go forward with an adjudicatory proceeding. Those are our two options. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. And then... I'll note that there's technically a third option that the commission has not shown us to take up at this point pursuant to the statute. The commission can actually hear the initial presentation, decide on a fine at that point in time without an adjudicatory hearing, send a notice out, and then there can be an appeal that goes through an adjudicatory proceeding. It's not a process I would have necessarily designed, but it is the process in the statute. So it's technically an option. Thanks for that clarification. Commissioners, I'll set for that for next Thursday. All right. Thank you. And then the ESPN matter, and I'll have Heather remind us where we are and guess where we're going. Thanks. Thank you, Chair and Commissioners. We do have the review of the Penn ESPN documents that Penn has provided in follow-up to our previous meeting. And there are some other elements that I think are important to note, and I'm actually going to turn it over to Caitlin for that piece of it. Thanks. Sure. So since the last time we talked about this, there's been a development in that Penn, Mr. Soriano at Penn has informed us that when PPC requests its renewal of its temp license, which will be coming up very soon, it will also be requesting to move forward with an adjudicatory hearing for durable suitability for the PPC license, for the CAT-1 license. And so the reason why that's relevant here is that there are two ways in which the Commission could decide to review the information it has received about the ESPN deal. The first would be to review that information in a meeting on the 14th potentially, review the information, ask questions, and look at it in that time. The second option would be to hold that and review it as part of an adjudicatory hearing for durable suitability, which I would anticipate would happen in January. And that way, because this information is relevant to suitability, you would sort of do it all in one meeting, do it all at the same time. But either is an option for the Commission. The one other thing I will raise is that in an executive, I can't get it to detail because it was discussed in an executive session, but the Commission also had requested some information related to bar stool. We have not received written documentation of those answers, and I spoke with Mr. Soriano, and it was his understanding that they're ready to provide additional information, but that they thought it would be in a meeting setting. So I'm happy to go back to him and ask for it in writing, or it can also be done in one of those two forums in a public meeting or in a adjudicatory hearing related to suitability. So and also in terms of the calendar, Caitlin, what would be our outside date if we were to take the option of the adjudicatory hearing or, you know, the first option would be on the 14th, as I understand it. Sure. I guess that would be up to the Commission's schedules. Honestly, we, you know, Chris, Mr. Soriano has said that as soon as the request for the extension of the temp license comes in, at the same time, you're going to get the request for that hearing on durable suitability. So that will be presumably before December 12th. So you'll have it by the 12th, and it can be set up in January, but it's just a matter of scheduling at that point. Yeah. So January 12th is their their license insurance expiration, right? Okay. All right. So Commissioner O'Brien, you have a question? No, I think I was just going to put my voice in for the January all at once adjudicatory process. I think it makes the most sense, particularly given that we're going to be getting some info on the 14th. So I think it makes sense to get all of it, ask our questions, what we need to in executive session, and then do the adjudicatory hearing in January. Commissioners? Commissioner Skinner? I think that's the more efficient way to go, but I also had a process question just on the temporary license, the actual decisions. Will we be issuing those first? How do we sort of reconcile at least in the case of Penn, because that's what's immediately before us in the coming weeks? How do we begin to review durable suitability without closing out the temporary license decision? It's a good question, and there actually there would be two separate processes. So by January 12th, we'll get the request for a renewal of the temporary license from PPC, and you'll start seeing others come in from the other operators. That will be addressed by the Commission as to whether or not to grant the renewal request in a public meeting, and that could happen very quickly, presumably. You could put that on a meeting. I don't think that's because it's a straightforward process. Just if you may wonder what the process is, yeah. Apologies. Yes, it's a very straightforward. For the second year renewal, it's a very straightforward process. They basically send in a one-page form. IED will probably confirm that there have been no, I'm assuming this is the case, that there have been no significant changes to suitability or anything like that, and you'd move on and issue the renewal of the temp. That can happen, presumably, before the adjudicatory hearing, but even if it doesn't, it would be fine. You would just issue the durable before the technical renewal of the temp. Once they get the application in for the temp, you don't have to do it by January 12th. The application sort of extends the temp for the first year, so there's not a deadline of you have to review the application by the 12th. Does that make sense? It does. What about the actual written decision from the commission on the granting? I know in a couple of instances we put conditions on the temporary license. Will we see those decisions, those written decisions, soon? Yes, it's a great question. One of the reasons why we're very thankful, Justin has joined the legal department. He is working on getting those cleaned up and ready to get over to you. You will have those decisions in relatively short order for review. Thanks, Justin. Commissioner Skinner, I did ask Heather and Caitlin to provide on January 4th kind of a summary or overview of the entire process for the licensing. What we got just now is brief, but I think they'll more formally explain it. I think you feel that that's still timely. We don't need to do it any earlier, but I'm going to leave that to Heather and Caitlin, unless the commissioners want something earlier. But that was what the target date was. Heather, we had talked about that a while ago that might work to just lay the set the stage, lay out the land of these renewals, and maybe actually go through a scheduling of some sort, either or plan on it for the next agenda setting. Is that helpful, Commissioner Skinner? Yes, it is. All right. Okay. So does that mean then commissioners are comfortable that we just take 14 offer next Thursday, or do we need to do anything on that day with respect to ESPN? We could take it off, Madam Chair. Yep. All good, right? Okay. May I ask, Chair, would the commission like written responses with regard to the questions related to Barstow in advance? Yes, I would. Yeah. That would probably be most efficient, too. Yeah. I think I didn't really check, I'm sorry, Commissioner Maynard, I didn't check in with you on the, I think I saw Commissioner Skinner saying it was most efficient, but you are good with rolling, going through the full adjudicatory hearing as well. I just... And what was the date we were thinking? Obviously, later than the 14th? I don't think an essay has to be later. I think Caitlin would work with Trudy and with the Penn team to figure out the adjudicatory hearing and then all the work that needs to be done in advance of the adjudicatory hearing. If there are dates that don't work... No, I was just trying to figure out what the order of operations were. That was it. Yeah. I think we don't have a set date yet, but it could be off our regular cadence, too, right, as an adjudicatory hearing, unless it could be afterwards, but after another meeting. So, we'll let Trudy and Caitlin work their magic on that. Okay, good. Right. And thanks for that. The new processes in place. So, thank you. Jerry Farr. Madam Chair, before we go on to that. Forgive me for not asking. Is there more to add to December 14th? Unfortunately, I think there is. I do realize it's a very long agenda, but we get a couple of recent requests from the City of Springfield from the Health and Human Services Department to make a couple of modifications to their Community Mitigation Fund grants. And one of them is rather time sensitive. That's the youth gambling study that they're doing. And this will probably take a little bit more time than our typical modifications, only because the City of Springfield is actually asking for an increase in their grant amount, which we have not done before. And there's a lot of explanation to do that I will do in a memo, but so it is somewhat precedent setting here in doing that. And we'll put out in the memo all the reasons why they want to do that. But anyway, we would like to do that on the 14th if we can. Okay. Will you send the language to me, Joe? Yes, yep, absolutely. Thank you. And make sure to CC Trudy and Nils please. Right. And I think, you know, just for, I think probably about a half hour for the, for those two items, just because the one might require a fair amount of discussion from the commission. Yeah, there's two separate ones. One is really is pretty simple. It's a little change in their scope and moving a little bit of money around within the grant. The other one is a request for additional money on that grant. So which is something that we have not really done before. And as I said, we'll, we'll outline everything in the memo hopefully and, you know, that would be, that would be helpful for the city if that, if that could certainly happen. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. Anything else? I'm sorry. Yes, I am. I was teasing it as I forgot to ask, but we're doing just fine on January, on December 14th. Heather, what do you have? Thank you, chair. So if this could actually be part of the administrative update, Burke would like to provide an update on the happenings at the casinos over the holidays, which I don't think will take very long. So I just wanted to flag that for the 14th. We always like that one. Todd, are you okay adding that to your administrative update? Burke and I will work something out. I think that'll be okay. I like that. Okay. Christian, Brian, how's that day looking to you? Is there anything that you'd like me to move up? I was wondering if you and I might be able to connect once we see exactly how long everything's going to take. Not that, I mean, I'm interested in all of it, but I think there are some things I could watch in the meeting after the fact. A little easier than some of the others. So once we have sort of the time sensing, maybe we can have a talk about. It's about one o'clock is sort of when I disappear. I might be able to be on the phone a little bit after that, but it's feeling pretty good, commissioner. Yeah, I mean, I hate to say it out loud that maybe without the CMF that we might be able to get through it with the 930 start, but I don't want to. I'm knocking on wood right now as I say that. Yeah, the CMF you may want to participate in that is what I'm thinking. So all right, I'll move it around. I haven't been religious about asking anybody about timing because I think we all have a kind of a gut sense about how this will go. I'm wondering if they could email you and Trudy like their estimated time just so we can be a little more precise. I don't want to bog us down right now. The one thing I'm wondering about, Caitlin, is the waiver, the waiver discussion. I'm thinking the same thing. I will check. You know, that's the one where I just can't remember the number of outstanding waivers. It was never a few, but maybe not more than three. Not a lot, but they were all individual. So it was, I was anticipating a decent length of discussion on that and we were getting there. I mean, if timing is an issue, I don't think there would be an issue with potentially granting a waiver to January 4th or about, you know, and I'm taking it up again. I don't think that would be a huge deal. Okay. All right. Thank you. And to the extent you can give me any timing on your particular piece of that, I welcome it because I'm guessing not as good of a guesser as probably Crystal, Grace, and Trudy. So thank you for that. Can I ask the 90 day audit? That was the other one that I didn't have that on. And we have to vote on that, correct, Bruce? I think it's just the report itself. I don't know if it needs to vote. Oh, okay. I don't, do you have an estimate, Bruce, of timing? Maybe 20 minutes. We will do you agree that it's not anything we have to vote on? It's just something we have to see. Todd? I don't know exactly what this is, if it's a specific audit or just an overview. It's an audit review on the computer systems, the safety of each licensee system. Oh, if it was a review of a specific licensee, I think the commission probably will have to take some action. I'd have to go back and look at the regulation. Okay. That's helpful to know if you could let us know, right? Commissioner Skinner, were you taking your volume off? No, I just, I certainly don't want to speak for Bruce or Kristen, but if I remember correctly, the commission voted to approve those independent auditors. And so I think it's been a while since I've read the regulation, but I think the vote had to occur then with, I guess, the work being presented through this report that Bruce is talking about. Now, there still may be the outstanding question as to whether the commissioners have to vote on it, but it's, I think the language in the regulations was specific in that the commissioners had to approve the independent auditors. I don't remember the language, but I don't think that that language is there relative to the report. That is correct. They did have to approve the auditors earlier. So now we'll just find out, but I think Commissioner Skinner is raising the right point. Do we actually approve the audit itself or just the function having been forwarded? Okay, thanks. Anything else? All right. Anything else for 14? Okay. Then we turn to the new year. We will save administrative update for you, Todd. Is there anything in particular you want to add now? Well, maybe we can do that insurance one on the fourth. Okay. Okay. Hopefully we'll have an update about our lease that we can talk about on the fourth. Yep. Publicly. Publicly. And then there may be one or two other things, but I think for now, those two will work. Okay. And we don't anticipate another agenda-setting meeting. Just keep that in mind. That doesn't mean that we can't work behind the scenes to flush out our agenda. Madam Chair. Yes, Commissioner. The project team and I kicked around a potential update during Todd's review administrative update on the licensee workforce and supply of diversity audit. We were thinking December 14th, but that seems to be a pretty jam-packed agenda. So if commissioners can wait for that update, we could do it on January 4th. And would it be under Todd or do you want it to be a standalone? Yeah, it could perhaps be a standalone. I just thought that Todd's administrative update would be a good place for it, but I leave that to you, Madam Chair. I don't mind it being either one. It could be a standalone then. Okay. So that will bring that out from under review. The diversity audit number eight under review, right? Correct. Thanks. I like that being on its own. If you don't mind, and then Todd will do the administrative update on the other two matters. We'll have placeholder for meeting minutes, and I'll add Commissioner Maynard's name there. Okay. Regulations. I don't know if you have any ready for the fourth, Caitlin or Carrie? I don't anticipate that we're going to have any for the fourth. Starting off the new year that way. All right. So what's waiting? Yes, I know we're going to have at least one thing on customer support hours by win bet. And my guess is we will probably have some other items by that time as well on house rules or something like that. Because we won't have another agenda-setting meeting, Bruce, you'll just have to keep, you know, you and your team keep us surprised. Yes. And we'll figure out a way to communicate that. Okay. Thanks. Yes. All right. Item number six. Good morning. Good morning. Yes. If we could add long to the representative on that, we'll be prepared to provide a report on reinstatement as well as provide some numbers about who's reinstating. Right. Commissioner O'Brien, you and I figured out that we should probably bring this forward in some kind of public forum. It's January 4th, the right date. We can keep it there for now. If other things take precedence, we can move it. The only thing I was going to do also was whether there's anybody internally who has a graphic design background or interest. I'd love to put their name on this project too. That's for the CLP's. You and I should probably coordinate what we want to see for that discussion and perhaps have Mills help us too. He's been quite involved in the discussions around the illegal market. I know that we've got other stakeholders who of course are very involved in that too. So Dave Sousa, I don't know if that's an invitation on graphic art. I don't want to put them on the spot, but we can see. We'll keep it on for now, right, Commissioner? And then we have the two committee updates on the screening committee updates from both. Is January 4th still the right date, guys? Yes. Yep. Commissioner Skinner, Commissioner Hill. Okay. Anything else for January 4th team? Sure. I do have one for January 4th. I think we'll be ready to do the update on the EVH plan at that point. Is that going to be wrapped into the adjudicatory hearing that we just decided though? No, that's totally separate. This is the floor plan amendment. EVH. I'm sorry. Sorry. The volume is three times off. No, it's me. I'm hearing ESPN and EVH has the same thing. I've done it a couple of times. So the floor plan will come in. I think we had it under review and it's going to be ready now, 14, to bring it up. Is that what you're saying? Yes. On January 4th. Yep. For January 4th, that's good news. Okay. I knew you weren't quite sure when we last spoke. Okay. On that date, can we add that discussion around the process for temporary licensure? That sounds good to me. Sure. Okay. And somebody will let me know who all the players will be because I assume Cara needs to be involved. You know, who will be presenting that will be helpful. And then we can lay out that roadmap a bit. Anything else for January 4th? Todd, is there anything else that you've had on your mind that you want to add to this January 4th at this time? One matter that's come up and I'm not sure if it's in terms of timing, but Caitlin, whether or not we actually have to respect to a withdrawal. I think we originally talked about possibly needing a notice of withdrawal because they actually have a license. We're now thinking the process may be different. Sorry, I haven't caught up with you on this, but we can talk about that later and figure out when that should get on the calendar. Okay, great. Thank you. We'll go on to January 18th. That's a Thursday, correct? Administrative update. We'll hold that placeholder unless you have something in mind, Todd, for right now. No, nothing specific at the moment. Okay. And the minute meetings, Commissioner Maynard. I'll add your name. We'll have one name. Administrative update. Commissioner Hill will have submitted that letter theoretically. Um, if we have a letter, I think we would have to share it unless the... I think I lost you for a second. Well, I'm wondering about, again, the process, that legislative letter that Todd's putting together, that will be ready for December 14th. Todd, how can we, I suppose we could authorize Todd to execute it, to sign it, and then we wouldn't have the issue around the commissioners having to see it again, trying to... I'm thinking of your timetable for getting this letter, perhaps before the New Year. Well, with any luck, you'll be able to look at it on the 14th and, you know, possibly authorize its execution then with some adjustments as... And that's okay. But they can't see in advance if we've looked at it, right? I'm sorry. It's a tool... Commissioner Hill and I have looked at it. They... Can we not share in advance? That's always that. We just... Well, I guess if you're expressing opinions in it, at this point, you wouldn't be. I wrote the letter. I mean, so, you know, you're... I think it's okay. All right. Good. Then we could circulate that in advance. Good. Okay. And so, right now, we'll just hold on the placeholder, Commissioner Hill, regulations. We will have them. I don't know what they'll be yet. So, I can fill you in as we get there. For January 18th. Okay. So, what's we're doing? I'm sure we'll have something, but nothing at this time. Thank you. Okay. And then item number six, the player respect notification. We will be prepared here in January. Okay. And this... You'll let me know who will be involved with that. Yeah. I will be the lead on that. You know, I'll figure out how my team is involved with it, too. Okay. I do have one additional item I'd like to add to that date, if I could. Sure. Sure. Well, you have a meeting this afternoon with the Springfield Police Chiefs and Springfield and surrounding community police chiefs and analysts. And so, we should be ready to share the Springfield Public Safety Report on January 18th. Commissioner O'Brien, you're all set on that? Yeah. Good. If you could send me that language for both, but you actually won't on the agenda, that would be really helpful for both items, Mark. Thanks. All right. I'll be sure to get the exact language right to them. I'm sure I didn't have it in my mind right now. Yeah. I don't. I want to make sure we have it right and who's presenting. Okay. Certainly. Good work. Thank you. Anything else for the 18th? Okay. Okay. Under review. Yeah, I left the process continue to roll it over. Yes, please. Okay. Compliance committee, Commissioner O'Brien, maybe we can talk about that when we're talking about the other items that we need to connect on. The HCA, post-committee agreement compliance. That's still ongoing. Okay. So, we'll keep it under review for now. I know, Mark, you wanted to comment on the casino job quality report. That's right. At this point, I'd like to just even take that out from under review because it may be there was an issue with some of the data that we had or very close to the finish line. I'd actually hope to put it under a date about there was an issue with some of the data. We want to make sure that that is as accurate as we possibly can before we would bring that before the commission. So, if we could just take that offer right now, I'd appreciate it. Okay. It'll come back to the commission in a later date. Yeah. And that's not an unusual development. We've had that before. That's part of the whole process, right? Absolutely. It's absolutely part of the process. Yes. Okay. Then we have the issue around that restriction by the operator. I know, Crystal, you've been working on that with Director Ban. I don't know if she's on Bruce. I'm on. Andrew actually has been a little more closely working on that. Okay. Good to know. The transition a little. Great. Great to know. How are we on that, Bruce? Does that stay under review for now? Yes, still under review. Okay. And then you've got the confidential information. Does that stay under review as well? I know you're working with legal on that. Yeah. I think we can keep that under review for now. Okay. We've brought the diversity audit up, Commissioner Skinner. Now to Jerry Fourth. Good to go. Take it off here. Can always bring it back if need be. We have the Two Screening Committee updates just as it holds here, but I know we have one for January 4th. We'll keep it on under review as our reminder. 2023 annual report. I know that I'm working with Mills on that. Dave, this is a good work. A good work that was started by Grace. That EB director screen. We'll just keep that under review. The Springfield, we're going to take number 12 off. Dr. Light-Bell, we have the RHDF and the escrow issue. Yeah. I think we'll keep that under review too. Okay. And then the IEB report. We've taken that off and we've added that. What was it now? I want to make sure I got the date right for you. January 4th, they're now ready. Yep. And then other items for under review. Madam Chair, I've been in contact with Encore over the last several days. And it looks like the east of Broadway, they'll be putting a package together for us relatively soon. I don't have a schedule for that yet. So I think we should put that on under review. They've made their final submission to MEPA, which is working its way through the process. So I would expect probably sometime in late December, early January, getting some kind of a package from them, and then we can figure out where it fits. And ultimate action. We'll take a series of meetings. Sir, what do you think? We, I think we need to discuss process a little bit as well on what we want to do on this, you know. Okay. So that might be a topic. You know, maybe that's a topic we want to have on maybe January 4th or something to have that discussion with the commission on what we want the process to be and... Assuming that we get that packet. And it sounds like... Well, even if we don't get the packet, I think it would be good to button down the process. Okay. So we'll put a January 4th on January 4th, a process issue. Actually, you know, I'm sorry. I'm not going to be here on January 4th now that I think about it. I am out that week. So I don't know. I think, well, we can figure it out. You know, we can put a memo together and saying, you know, these are what the options are. You know, it's like, do we want to have an additional public hearing and a public meeting? You know, and, you know, we'll need to dust off some of the older memos that we put together and do that. So I'll sort of get some stuff out to the commission to take a look at. Yeah. And if it turns out that we put that on January 18th, if that makes, if that's too late, and that's not timely, we can carve out maybe a single item. Yeah. And, you know, I'm going to be, I'm going to be local that week. So, I mean, if something had to be done on the 4th, I could certainly be available for that. All right. Well, keep me posted. And we can add it. The only reason why I say keep me posted is because we are not reconvening as an agenda setting. So we'll just have to navigate this loosely. And I assume everybody's still comfortable with not having another agenda setting meeting in between for the holidays. Madam Chair, sorry, just clarifications. Do we not have an agenda setting? Well, there's a hold for December 20th? Oh, it's after that. Thank you, Commissioner Skinner. We have, oh, that's good. Thank you so much. It's after that. We don't have another one. All right. Thank you. I think there is a debate as to whether we should do the 20th. Everyone's good with the 20th. There. Now I feel better. Okay. So that, you'll have more information, Joe. And if it turns out... Yep. You know, if things move quicker, we'll, we'll readjust. Okay. Good. All right. Thanks, Commissioner Skinner, for helping me out on that. That was very helpful. Anything else for under review? Madam Chair, I would like to add an update on Play My Way. We also, we had a, I call it Play My Way report and update. There was an evaluation of the program by Dr. Michael Wall. I've asked him to come and share some information and we can provide some updated information about all three properties. Okay. Anything else? So one item that I think we should probably return to and maybe sooner than later is the presentation that IEB and Legal Dip for us last public meeting on the different levels of delegation. I think we really, I think the commissioner recognized, commission recognized maybe some work still to do on the higher level as we try to understand the efficiencies and also our own process of judicatory versus, you know, and then whether the reg supports that, maybe tweaking the reg to support what we want. But I think we all understood that with respect to what is labeled category one, those lower thresholds that we recognized that we wanted to support the sports wagering division. On that, there were some questions about the items that were set forth under category one and Commissioner Skinner, I'm thinking of you, you raised a question about the minors, you know, being under that. So I'm wondering, does January 4th feel right to revisit that or is January 18th? I am aware that Director Ban needs that policy from us and I don't want to push it off. On the other hand, we want to make it as right as we can. It's a policy of sorts, so it's dynamic. We can always continue to revisit it. What do you think commissioners and team, Todd? Yeah, I'm not sure exactly what the next step would be, what you're looking for at this point. Well, I was going to say, I think IEB and sports wagering was going to refine maybe, so I don't know what they, are they coming back with something different than what we saw already? I mean, what is the next step? I think that I heard that the document wasn't ready for prime time. That was kind of our conclusion, but I was thinking maybe to be helpful and efficient that right now we concentrate on at least just category one with the understanding that there's another portion perhaps of the policy, but to zero in on that category one with the benefit of Stan, what do you think? And you know what else actually would be helpful, I think for me and maybe for the other commissioners is a sense of, I keep calling it a docket sheet. I know Bruce, you have another term that you use in terms of the tracking document that you have, but if we could have a mock up a sample so that we can understand what's in there to make sure we have enough to make it informative without causing issues for adjudicatory bias later. I would actually like to set up two by twos or one on one to show you that we're meeting with Commissioner Skinner Friday and to show her and then maybe next week to meet with the rest of you to give you an idea of what's in there. We met with legal yesterday, so we had the clearance from them. So you have clearance about the adjudicatory bias? Yeah. So there's that piece and then I think what I'm looking for is a revision of one third of the memo to at least tackle what seemed to be, we seemed a little bit clearer on and we understood the bottleneck and does that make sense or commissioners? Well, given that I'm still pretty good at reading boxes, I see a couple nods of head. Commissioner Skinner, you're all set? Sorry. Can I just quickly note something? We can certainly adjust the document and I think in the meantime, my thought was we would just continue to follow the same process that we've been doing, which is, you know, when there's a kind of a category two that's been referred to the IEP, then we would, like I said, do the same process that we have been. We would do a report sent into the commission and then the commission could decide in the public meeting how it wished to proceed. That's what we've done with the last several. So I think in the interest of consistency, we would continue to do that until we ultimately get the document revised and get it approved by the commission. Like what we're doing for the draft Kings 1, right Heather? Yeah, that's fine. Thank you for that clarification on two and three. I was just thinking of that document for category one and again, helping get a written policy for Bruce. The meeting on the fourth might be a little tight, especially given that I think a lot of folks probably are out the week before. We've done the materials to the commission. So that could be the 18th. The 18th? Does the 18th work okay, Bruce? Yes. Okay, thanks. And Caitlin, do you have any other update on regulatory changes that you want to address now or no? Oh, apologies for the 18th or under review or anything else? There are some regs that we're going to be looking into bringing back. In particular, one of them is 256.044, which relates to restrictions on certain types of advertising by employees or third-party marketing affiliates of operators. So we are going to be looking into that and bringing that back. So we could put that under review chair if you'd like to do that. Caitlin, could you repeat the citation? Sure. So 256.044. And that may also implicate some changes in the internal controls. Basically, we're looking at that reg, seeing how it's working practically now in the current environment, whether there's any type of amendments that we would like to propose of the commission make to that reg. And then that may also result in some amendments to internal controls. The other type of thing that we'd be looking at in the same context in addition to types of restrictions on advertising and having third-party affiliates or employees advise or encourage waiters or vets would relate to some of the issues we've seen about moving lines. And what is the commission's role in having internal controls to prohibit an operator from sort of intentionally moving a line or something along those lines? So those are two bigger items, but we're going to be looking into those. Bring that back to you Shirley. Thank you for that. Any other issues to add for under review? Madam Chair, on November 2nd, we were out in Springfield and we had a great meeting. But there was an issue that came up, which was the railing, which we really appreciated to help stop underage folks, minors hitting the floor. But something that happened, obviously, was that the ingress and egress to game sense was kind of prohibited. And I'm interested in finding out where that is now, what the update's been, and potentially getting an update from Mark and MGM if possible, because I really, really expressed a strong interest that day that there'd be no barriers between the floor, a section of the floor, a small section of the floor, and the game sense office, because I want game sense to be able to continue to do the good work that they do. And I think the entire commission was aligned on that. Commissioner, I could speak briefly to that. I know that Burke Kane has been in communication with both MGM and Mark Vander Linden, so we could certainly collectively provide an update with respect to that issue. But that has certainly been, lines of communication have, I think, flowed on that. So just so you know. Could we move that to December 14th? I feel there's a degree of urgency there. Right, Commissioner? I would defer to Burke and Mark Vander Linden on that. We can certainly, it's fine by me to add it to December 14th. Burke, you know what, I can't tell if you're speaking your microphones off, but we're not hearing you. I look like you were speaking. I looked like I must have hit that mute button on the little controls panel there. It happens. Yes. Mark and I have talked about it. I've talked about it with Daniel on site there. There is a opening along that walkway to a south end market. Perhaps it could be slid down. I think Mark and I have preliminarily spoken about it and put it towards the front entrance of the game sense area. Okay. I think it would be worthwhile having MGM address the issue as well. Right. Yeah. I think let's bring it forward on December 14th and if the commission needs to, you know, support Commissioner Maynard's words at that date, it'll be timely, I think. Right, Commissioner Maynard? I would already say that the commission was pretty strong on it every commissioner that day. Yeah. And we had a chance to see with our own two eyes the issue. Right. And we discussed this a bit yesterday in our working group. There were also the machines for the ticket machines that were there. Are those still there, Burke? Yes. Yeah. So it's not simply the railing, but also those machines that really are a ball. Block the visual. Right. Block the visual, Commissioner Maynard, exactly. So Commissioner Maynard is, thank you for bringing it up. He is reiterating what we did address November 2nd. In the, in the meeting end after the meeting, as we were shown, we were given a tour out to our car. Lisa, a couple of us were okay. I think everybody had a chance to probably view that person, but I can't remember that. All right. Mark and Burke will put it on for and Heather for an update to December 14th. I can circle around with Daniel Miller to make sure that he's aware as well. Thanks. Yeah, as well. Thanks. Thanks so much. All right. Anything else for under review? Okay. Commissures, are we all set? And Commissioner Maynard, you and I can talk about your day for that day. The 9.30 start is important. I think I know that giving us a problem with that. For that, a motion to adjourn. Move to adjourn. Second. Thanks, Commissioner Skinner. Any discussion? Thanks, everyone, for all your good work. Organization, Commissioner Maynard. Hi. Commissioner Hill. I saw his hand go up there. Oh, and feel better. We're feeling your pain. Commissioner Skinner. Hi. Commissioner Maynard. Hi.