 Good morning. Good morning. I call to order number 292 of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 14, 2020. This meeting is an emergency public meeting called pursuant to open meeting law, general laws chapter 30a, section 20b. Given the unprecedented circumstances resulting from the global coronavirus pandemic, Governor Charles Baker issued on March 12th an order pursuant to his declaration of state of emergency that provides limited relief from certain provisions of the open meeting law to protect the health and safety of individuals interested in attending public meetings and keeping the guidance provided the Commission will conduct this public meeting utilizing remote collaboration technology. We thank all invited meeting attendees for their cooperation as they participate in the phone and we welcome all members of the public for joining us. This process alone symbolizes the complexity of times we are living in. The Gaming Commission has unique and broad regulatory powers and a multitude of responsibilities established by statute. We have stated before and continue to maintain that ensuring the safety and well-being of our employees and the employees and patrons of our licensed entities is of paramount importance. Yesterday, a national emergency was declared in light of the coronavirus spread. I am proud of the work the Commission has conducted to assess and prepare for the reach of this virus over the last weeks. We of course are not alone. We are walking in step with fellow citizens, federal and state governmental agencies, lawmakers, businesses and other stakeholders across the nation that are all working on behalf of their colleagues, neighbors, customers, patrons and communities, health and safety. I am thankful for the consistent and transparent collaboration of the MGC licensed facilities, Plain Ridge Park Casino, GM Springfield and Encore Boston Harbor. And I wish to thank all the state agencies, particularly the Commonwealth Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Department of Public Health for its guidance and accessibility as we work to be well informed in a very dynamic environment. At this juncture, I determined that emergency commission meeting was required for my fellow commissioners to be updated on the operational status of the licensed gaming facilities here in Massachusetts so that we could take any required action to ensure we have met our responsibilities. At this juncture, I turn to our first item on the agenda and welcome Interim Executive Director Karen Wiles. And if in fact you find that you cannot speak and when we ask participants to speak, I will work to unmute you. You'll just have to give me a little bit of time because we have a number of participants today. Thank you. Good morning everyone. So I just want to thank everyone for taking the time. Hold on a second. I want to thank everyone for taking the time this morning and also, you know, I realize this is an extremely fluid situation and we're all trying to do our very best under somewhat trying circumstances. I appreciate everyone just working with us as far as trying to do the right thing for the public, for key business casinos and and employees. So my understanding is that we've had communication through staff with the attorney, with the licensees and that the licensees recognize that we're dealing with a public health emergency. That is an extremely fluid situation as things are changing rapidly on a daily basis and that that the licensees still agree to an orderly closure from the commission. I would like at this time if we could on the you know through the technology and I'm going to defer to the experts on technology to give me a few minutes if necessary. But I'd just like to hear first from Angkor Boston Harbor then MGM and then PPC just to comment on that anything they need to say because this is an emergency situation my expectation is a lot of the details we're going to have to work through so we recognize we will expect to have further communication going forward. So at this time this is just a preliminary matter and we can just speak with the gaming agents and the rest of the MGC staff about logistics. So this is just a preliminary conversation to step in the right direction. We would expect that we have another meeting likely shortly for follow-up on logistics. So at this point I just want to turn it over to Angkor Boston Harbor. Thank you. Good morning chair and commissioners this is Brian Gulbrans I'm the president here at Angkor Boston Harbor. We believe with the rise in cases in the Commonwealth and the recently announced school closures we believe it's prudent at this time to pause our operations and put the safety and health of our guests and employees first. We would recommend a two week closure and would suggest we evaluate the situation during that period. We are fully prepared to pay our full-time employees throughout this period and would hope that the chair and commissioners take this consideration all this under consideration and our recommendations. NGM. We're fully supportive of whatever your decision may be. And then PPC and if we could just identify ourselves this is of course chair John Sine. Thank you. Do we have someone from PPC on the call? I wonder if they're muted. My apologies if I could just have the unfortunately the names from PPC. Lance George. He said Lance George let's see you. Hello can can you guys hear us? Hold on a second. I think we have you now. Thank you. Okay this is Lance George general manager from Plain Ridge Park. We would agree to to whatever steps are necessary in whatever direction the MGC points in. My fellow commissioners before we go on I don't want this sector to be somewhat coordinated. I will call on you and then circle back to each of you if you don't have a comment now but here the other fellow commissioners we will give you the opportunity to reply. If um oh oh okay so I'm sorry if my fellow commissioners could just pause we need to just allow for one more of our representatives from MGM Springfield to present. Seth my apologies. No worries chairwoman thank you for the opportunity we we also like Penn are happy to comply with the commission of work collaboratively toward an orderly closure in the best interests of public health and the health and safety of our employees and patients so we remain ready willing and able to cooperate with the commission and appreciate appreciate the collaborative nature of that this has been approached with so far. Thank you very much. Before we move on to the commissioners um with any of our other representatives from three licensees wish to speak again everyone to patients I appreciate very much in my department I have good technology but complex um complexity okay um so moving to my fellow commissioners again I'm going to make sure you're all unneeded I can find a new name. Commissioner O'Brien can you hear me? Oh hold on she's yes I can okay great thank you would you like to um do you have any questions for our licensees or for uh I just want to start off with um reiterating what Interim Executive Director Well said in terms of the cooperative effort and I'm hopeful and confident that we'll be able to come to a resolution that that deals with what we're facing um I would definitely affirm that given the federal the FDC CDC and the governor and the guidance issued by the Department of Public Health at this time that I think the only prudent thing to do is um to suspend the operations for at least two weeks I would want us to obviously be continuing to check on the status as Interim Director Well said it's very fluid um the comment I would make is we also have another um concern I think as a commission to protect um as do the the licensees the employees of the licensees as well as our employees and I do also have concerns about the ability of the commission um to ideally enforce and comply with our statutory obligations in terms of the gaming agents on the floor and I think this definitely would deal with that concern as well that I have um the question that I would have would be um whether any of the licensees can also speak to our employees and or the status or any possible one for part-time employees I think that last sentence I couldn't hear perhaps said others on the phone can't hear could just be um sure whether there is a comment from um either MGM and or PPC in regard to their employees and whether there's any further clarification as terms of any part-time employees okay um uh commissioner um status please thank you good afternoon or good morning um and appreciate everybody's time this morning obviously uh uh I respect the fact and appreciate the fact that our licensees have been working very closely with us over the last few days actually few weeks is this uh issue has emerged uh and appreciate their patience but as well as the the opportunity for their team to interact with our regulatory team and our interim executive director at this time similar to echo uh commissioner O'Brien's comments obviously you know we're we're dealing with the public health nature of this issue I think secondarily uh having a chance to work with each one of you to understand uh preparations you might be making to inform your staff would be helpful information it may not be available at this time but we would certainly welcome the opportunity to hear from you um obviously our teams on the ground will be working closely with your team uh at each of the facilities um and uh obviously the opportunity to uh take into consideration some of the questions that some of our local officials from hosts and surrounding communities might have we will certainly work with you to uh to reach out and answer those questions as best we can commissioner um O'Brien and commissioner status thank you very much commissioner Zuniga um we will be uh asking for your comments in one one moment we are trying to identify you on the on the list if you um because he's probably muted is he looking look on your six one seven let's go to this number that's okay because there's so many numbers he enters with his okay can't six one seven I need extra eyes okay okay thanks uh Kathy this is Katrina if the uh commissioner would just hit star six on her phone it would unmute her if she's just calling in this would be commissioners uh uh Zuniga hi it's Zuniga sorry on weekend thank you so much star six is the um now we know thank you um good morning commissioners Zuniga we've been able to hear everyone's comments um any of the presentations would you like to either ask a question or comment well I just I just want to mention that I was I dropped off uh when um commissioner O'Brien was uh in the middle of her remarks and I you know because I picked up Karen's call and and but I I did hear all of the initial I've been on since the beginning the initial uh comments uh from you from Karen from the three licensees and um generally agree that I think we need to be better safe than sorry that this may be uh really acting on on on an abundance of caution and I think um just seeing all of the other entities around us the school districts as was mentioned before um that it's only prudent to um to have a temporary closure and continue uh to assess uh really on a not not just a daily but on an hourly basis what what is clearly a very fluid uh situation so how how we get there in terms of um you know whether this is just a consensus or uh or or an agreement or a directive I'm best concerned about I think um what I think we need and those are some of the details that I believe um Karen uh fall under what Karen was was alluding to earlier that we can resolve but I think a um a pause as was as was being uh mentioned here he's he's not only warranted but uh but prudent thank you commissioner Zuniga um commissioner Cameron are you able to do your your number please uh yes this is uh this is commissioner Cameron calling in on my work cell phone um can you all hear me yes we can there's so many okay great yeah I thank you I understand and uh I was able to hear everyone's comments and I certainly agree with my colleagues that it's uh extremely important to uh to take at least a two-week closure at this point um and and then reassess uh the other thing I'd like to mention is I think it is important that we follow suit with all our licensees meaning meaning Reinhem and Suffolk our simulcast locations as well because I think there could be an issue where uh possibly there aren't as many people at those locations but if they were to remain open there may be others that were unable to go to our main licensees and that could be a crowded facility so I think it's important that we think about all five of the the licensees when we talk about closure here and I also um I also um commend the collaboration of everyone uh thinking about public safety at this point um Mr. Cameron you raised a very good point and of course as you know things have been very fluid and every I remember the um the staff really all the way through the organizations that have been working on this and of course Dr. Leibhach has expressed her interest in the safety and welfare of um all those who are at the phrase trust. I think he raised an important point and we expect to convene uh under an emergency probably the emergency um powers that we have underneath opening of another meeting over this weekend and we can prepare staff to make to present to us an update on on those facilities and make recommendations unless you think that swift action today is necessary but I I'm trying to want to be better informed before we address those facilities what do you think um I I think consistency is important and um whatever we do should apply to all our licensees but I will you know I will listen to my other my fellow commissioners on that actually I think um uh I know that the terms that we're going to add in we do have our Interim General Counsel Todd Grossman on the line uh because we do not have representation of those facilities Todd uh do we need to be able to notify them in advance before we were to take any directive order um Todd probably needs to be commuted hello I good morning I think I commuted myself good thank you yeah I would I would I I think it it's certainly prudent to ensure that we include um all of the facilities and whatever directive there is and of course as everyone discussed we will work on the details as to how that comes to be the commission obviously as everyone knows has very broad superintendents authority over all licensees and I think you could easily include the two racing facilities in whatever direction we want to go here this morning yeah uh this isn't this is Karen I'm just uh yeah I'm a little concerned because they're they're not on the call they get no notice uh my suggestion is maybe we do a very quick um the other meeting once we have an opportunity to talk to them because I have spoken to any of them I would certainly agree on that point if we could get just clarity as to whether there's a broad agreement that they should be included I think we can definitely work towards that result but I would absolutely agree that they need to be included in the discussion so yeah my suggestion here is that go with three casino licensees right now and then reconvene short the other two so they have an opportunity uh to discuss the matter with staff and because it's something that that we're not aware of and put them on the in a subsequent call very very quickly so is that consistency across the the five the five properties of their licensee scales that makes sense to it does okay thank you yeah this is um okay on me day I can can you hear me yeah this is not okay so um maybe just to um to to to clarify um we're going to try to seek uh uh you know involvement and input but I don't think that should uh of the racing licensees but I don't think that should impede anything out of this call the should it I think that what we have knocked up the agenda on is with respect to the three licensees that are notified and represented today on the call that would be dbc and um meet uh for boston carver and and jam springfield we have not given notice as to the the racing facilities and cameras as wisely brought issue to our attention which we appreciate but we need to get proper notice to them and properly mark up the agenda to address that although that we are working under emergency circumstances we plan to be another week this weekend in any case and then we could get good information through our staff to discuss this issue and and get their notice to the other entities so we would proceed with respect that's the three licensees on the agenda today unless I hear an objection either from my fellow commissioners or um general counsel um bress me if there's anything that she'd want to add no that sounds exactly right to me I I like that commissioner bryan um yeah talks anything uh no I'm just if you know I'll wait my turn for my for the responses to my other questions but I think that what was raised by um commissioner cameron is appropriate yes and and I have a solution for just to put it to adjust it another meeting um with the understanding it isn't true does that work for you as long as we do the meeting um forthwith thank you I think we're all in agreement and again thank you commissioner cameron um uh commissioner bryan have you had another question comment uh no not beyond what I said initially okay does anyone have um my fellow commissioners I think you're all unmuted with me do you have any further comments for our licensees so the um I it's it's uh it's Enrique again um is there is there a time frame as to when this would become effective are we talking as of now has it uh has there been some kind of um partial or total closure already I'm just curious about my my fault uh for not putting you up to date commissioner sunica because you did let us know that you dropped off uh commissioner bryan was speaking can you just um let uh uh commissioner sunica know you thought about a time as far as I'm concerned I think this should be done and effectuated as soon as possible so in terms of um closing the floors to the public I think it should be done as safely and as quickly as possible in a way that enables the businesses to then do within and in terms of the suspension of the operations would you recommend recommended a two week period um with us uh checking in at the end of that two weeks for next steps is that how you think I do I I am not going to be at all surprised if we are having this conversation again toward the end of that period just with the clarity that we would need to check in quite frequently because if it is extended um or reopened on a limited basis obviously we're going to have to be having constant communications with each other and other licenses I had I had another question uh this would this apply to uh only the gaming area uh can we assume that the rest of the facilities are subject to the discretion or of the licensees um I actually will turn to our our fellow licensees I know that the government issued an order that might have informed some of the uh decision making on that in terms of uh the the licensees uh so I could ask either Brian or Kandia if you wish to comment on that we understand that if you if things are floating you have no distinctions but how does this apply to them you know it we are in our pardon me yes uh this is Brian Galbrands I'm sorry Jackie wanted to remind me that I should tell everybody who this is um our our fully integrated resort is just that so I think to just isolate the gaming floor would be difficult for us I can't speak for the other constituents on the phone um with respect to the timing of a closure I agree it should be as quickly as possible but in order to fully prepare for an orderly and well orchestrated closing we would request and and propose a closing as of either late Sunday night or maybe Monday early Monday morning so that we can communicate effectively with all of our guests our employees our partners and our suppliers we'll leave that to you and comply with whatever you decide but we'd request um at least 24 to 48 hours to get everything organized this is my understanding is that uh you know we've talked to our gaming agents they also need a little time there is a whole process for shutting down you know particularly the new amount of money for a certain response that they have seems reasonable um this is commissioner Brian again I guess my question is in terms of phasing this um I would assume there is a way to close it to guests while still facing wrapping up with employees and gaming agents absolutely so I'm wondering if maybe we can get some insight in terms of timing from the licensees and IUB on that we're happy to comply with whatever you recommend we could certainly close down the gaming floor by this evening if that was something that you were interested in and then by Sunday we have hotel guests that are overnight stays we'd want to make sure that we make accommodations for them in arrangements to get them to some other facility and we have inbound guests that we're going to have to reassign to other hotels whatever might be open but I want to have an opportunity to take care of our guests as well and give the employees the heads up of what's happening um so we've certainly prepared to do whatever is recommended but um if we would like to have the gaming floor closed by this evening and then uh further to that have all non-gaming and full operations closed by Sunday night it would be appreciated to have that additional time all right this is Commissioner Ryan I think that would be my preference I don't know about the other commissioners so I agree with that this is Commissioner Cameron I agree that that's prudent to to by tonight and then tomorrow certainly understand guests have to be accommodated elsewhere uh and this is Karen I just had a brief conversation with our uh team our gaming gist division and they've indicated everybody goes Karen I think you broke off a little bit at the end what was that a question for someone no no I'm just saying the gaming agents already have a plan in place uh so they are ready they can with whatever time frame works for the casino okay okay um any further questions on my comment uh for our three last concedes or for our um interim executive director Karen Wells well I would like to hear from MGM if they have a similar um uh approach as as um as as when we sort of that core relative to hotel and other areas that are non-gaming okay um thank you uh commissioners again I understand a few of the news but I'll MGM if you need to comment this is Seth uh I'm going to defer to um Chris Kelly Chris if you can chime in but I thank you uh President Kelly for joining us I appreciate if you are able to answer yeah we understand it so I believe we're aligned with win certainly I want to give Chris an opportunity to any further color if he's able to um if you're able to connect him thank you and then um playing Rachel um President George sure um yeah not a problem to close down I think the only thing that we would ask for is a few hours we're at the property right now a few hours to communicate with our employees so that they can hear from us as opposed to um you know from other employees or from patrons thank you Chris you have um further questions well only that uh it sounds like we're going to be hearing from MGM um on the on the other areas uh in a little bit or or was that uh um you know uh are they in agreement with closing the whole resort they said that they were aligned with what was that I think they can speak again but I heard a line within okay yes that's right that's correct um and I think we're having some difficulties um Chris was trying to chime in but um was unable to be uh heard I guess um we are we are able to be heard from the wind folks am I on now by any chance yes you are Chris you you are yeah well good morning good morning everyone uh well thank you so much and I apologize for having some technical difficulties on on my side um yes we are aligned with wind in terms of uh requested time and could a gaming floor by the end of the night tonight um as well as non-gaming by tomorrow um we think those are both reasonable and achievable um we're also aligned with wind with respect to the payments of our team members over that two week period that's very good very good to hear thank you for that clarity I guess the the one thing that probably needs a finer point is um whether there can be unanimity um on a time as opposed to close a business tonight I know a lot of you are 24 on the gaming floor so we I think we need to sort of agree on what is a reasonable and safe time for the gaming floor I'm sorry go ahead commissioner this is brian gullbrance from on corbus and harvard if I could recommend we just go to the end of the gaming day I believe it's five or six a.m uh tomorrow morning we would be we'd be finished it would be five a.m five fifty nine a.m uh and that would just finish out the day cleanly I'm gonna be honest I think my preference would be before midnight tonight I don't know how my other commissioners do we'll we'll comply either way I don't know if my other commission at the other commissioners want to chime in right I think that makes sense too because you know what we had said end of the day and you had said end of the day today so it was my when I hear end of the day I'm thinking midnight because I think it may confuse people to be able to come in the morning tomorrow but then have to leave by six a.m um I I think and then the same thing the end of the evening tomorrow night for hotel guests so it's it's tonight and then tomorrow night so we'll say midnight for both evenings is that correct I mean I think that makes sense thank you you know what I just want to make sure commissioners seven and you guys get a chance to and I don't know commission sevens yeah I would agree you know end of the gaming day is midnight tonight for any hotel guests etc uh midnight on Sunday I guess I had a additional question for MGM you obviously have business operators on your location who are exactly that business partners can you share any conversations that you've had with your business partners the folks who have other retail space and what how they would be aligned with your plan at this point hi this is chris again um we have had some preliminary conversations with our operators um and right now we're leaving the temporary closure of of those facilities in the hands of those operators that are not directly attached to the gaming floor um but that's a conversation that we can certainly revisit um following this discussion okay that'd be great and obviously any developments on that if you could be back in touch with our director absolutely any further questions on that well I um I'm frankly less concerned about exactly what time I'm I'm imagining that there's a lot of logistics that you know that the licensees have to take into account as they as they go along but I think in general it's good to have a target a target time and you know the difference between a few hours in my mind you know may not make a big difference but whatever the consensus uh is I'm fine with that um I was I had a question relative to um whether want to be in counter to address the logistics from his perspective as I've been up and I've been gaining enforcement units in terms of the process for closure at midnight versus the five uh fifty uh thirty nine uh he happens to be here when we want his expert to be here good morning everyone yeah just as the chair had mentioned the concerns being the process of the evacuation of shutting down on the business at midnight versus that zero five five nine time frame uh for my standpoint the public safety system uh that that is a concern as far as midnight um you know so the messaging ahead of the closure um if we do get significant numbers uh in advance of that closing that comes into play from my perspective as opposed to people out of midnight this is that early morning hour this is commissioner a brian what about a two if you're saying that that might be problematic um what about a two a.m closure and suspending basically starting with um two a.m when everything else would be shut down anyway the other businesses and night clubs etc yeah I think um I'm the most businesses are shut down by two a.m or even by midnight the uh some of the you know this uh that doesn't make much of a difference in my opinion regarding midnight or uh we obviously get a little bit later in the night and again it's all going to be defending upon what type of crowd that show up earlier in the evening and how late they stay staying so I guess for point of clarity are you saying that it is a safety concern to close at midnight or just more challenging more challenging okay so still doable uh doing well obviously weighing uh you know the the overall intent is is to get the facility closed as quickly as possible that's the intent you know we'll work with it but I just want to raise those concerns as you know midnight a midnight crowd versus a six a.m and that was part of my point about like allowing for these to be a judgment call with our people there to make sure that there's an orderly um winding down and maybe not necessary and not unnecessarily rushed I'm not suggesting that will happen but trying to meet what might be a challenging uh uh deadline uh we wouldn't want uh you know some kind of other consequences on it personally I would I would um be uh um in time to agree with Captain Connor's recommendation and also I am full appreciation of the collaborative spirit of our licensees you know in this case as I as I said in my opening statement everyone's working to do their very best in the most difficult time and our goal is to make it orderly um if I'm hearing public safety challenge um because the crowd might be in arger at midnight um I'm kind to agree with with Captain Captain Connor's and I think um the Executive Director Wells also wants to give an update um and then we'll come back to Commissioner Cameron. Just to let folks know I just had a quick offline conversation through his band so uh he's done down in his experience the uh it is a little bit easier with the with the smaller crowd so I just want to put that out as just a point of formation for the commissioners. Yeah and this is Commissioner Cameron I certainly defer to um to uh the expertise of those who have closed before and those who have tried to um tried to empty a building uh and what those challenges are so public safety always uh always trumps in my mind. So you would be comfortable with this midnight to the closer to the early hours. I think the messaging to the point of messaging is really important and I assume that um Karen you deferred to the licensees on on how they message people. We can also assist through um our Communications Director Elaine just for a point knows online um to help them in that messaging but it would be you know of course completely and I'm sure that that would probably help on the safety factor. Yes, sure. Okay so uh as we as we think about this um these are all details for our ultimate um commissioners so we don't have all of you on every detail right now but we'll want to think about the guidance actually vote on this matter. I'm going to now return to the lineup Commissioner O'Brien. Do you have any questions or comments about any any issue? Um just if I could hear from PPC on the one outstanding matter in terms of their employees at the during the time. Uh this is Lance George. Uh can I can you guys hear me? Yes. Yes, thank you George. Yeah, I believe I believe what I heard is consistent with how we will approach and that is we intend to pay our employees for two weeks after that time we will uh we will reevaluate so I believe we're consistent. Okay, thank you. Uh and in terms of um just the closing I think um I would I would likewise defer to Captain Connors and Bruce Band in terms of how to do it expeditiously but in the safest way possible. Thank you. Commissioner Sevens. Uh I do not. I only to say I definitely agree with uh Captain Connors' recommendation. Thank you. Commissioner Ziniga. Yeah I thank you. I had a question um for uh for whomever of the licensees. So uh when when everything is closed and and it's achieved is there anything that remains uh a skeleton crew for safe security um cameras uh still available to be monitored? Can can you just tell us what actual closure means? Uh Commissioner this is Brian Golbrance. We intend to have a management team that will stay behind a security engineering and surveillance team that will stay behind. Uh we would hope go with the GEU as well. Uh we will lock everything down and for safety and security of all concerns we want to make sure that we have a crew in here to obviously disinfect and clean everything. We'll have our call center available for customers and employees. We'll probably also have a small crew of our HR leaders. So, we will maintain a small staff to protect the asset and to inform everyone of what's happening um and we certainly want to have the opportunity to get um everything uh fully disinfected, cleaned, and ready for whatever we might be able to open prior to that. Thank you Brian. And this is uh Captain Connors just to confirm uh GEU will remain on the state obviously 20 plus seven and we'll work closely with security and surveillance department to report what we had some of that initial conversation but we'll tighten up upside down and we'll be on those 24 seven. This is Lance George at Plain Ridge. I just wanted to reiterate or uh repeat exactly what Connors said and that is that we will have a small staff that remains behind one to secure the facility and two we will take the opportunity to clean and disinfect the facility as well. Excellent. Thank you and MGM's would you like to comment? We have alignment on this issue with our fellow operators um similar approach to the skeleton team that will remain in the complete um cleaning and disinfecting of the facility. Thank you. Thank you Commissioner and thank you all. Commissioner Cameron. Uh no additional questions. Okay um uh Executive Director Valls you have any additional comments that you would like to make if you would like to repeat the recommendation of clarity that's helpful at the time. Or if uh I know we have uh um uh Mr. Grossman is on the line as well if you want to help in any way train um any action I know that we have preserved the opportunity to vote today. We've been um briefed. I heard that none of my um all commissioners have additional questions. I'm that I am very proud of all the work that every single MGM employee has done at a very difficult time. It troubles me that I know there have been here who have been very nervous about their own health and about their family's health and they are still committed to the community's health and it's been a very taxing time. So I want to express my gratitude for that. Um in terms of the licenses you have worked in concert with our team here and we appreciate that because again we know that you have our community members your patrons your employees and our employees who are at your states have interests um in your heart and in your actions. So I just wanted to express my gratitude. It has been a trying time for all of our staff to work on these matters and while continuing to do their everyday obligations they are so committed to. So I just want to express that. So barring no further um uh questions from my fellow commissioners I would ask that um Mr Grossman if you could claim to us um action that you would recommend for us to take in light of today's action taking into consideration some of the recommendations that came through our individual commissioners and those are on vote accordingly. Yeah absolutely um at the moment um and there was I don't I unfortunately I don't have it right in front of me Madam Chair I don't know if you have the language or commissioners Devins can um frame it for us and then again tailor it carefully to the discussion today this is a definite effort to give us some structure today under our virtual circumstances. Thank you Madam Chair um to effectuate a motion I would suggest a move in light of the president's public health emergency that the commission authorizes executive staff to work with cooperation but three gaming licensees to prepare a written agreement for the commission to review as soon as possible effectuating a safe and quarterly suspension of operations of the respected gaming establishments for a period of two weeks the commission will have the ability to revisit the matter periodically but no late two weeks from today. Um just a technical correction I guess if we're going to go through Sunday the date should probably say 15 days as opposed to two weeks so we know a date's certain. Okay so we can include an effective date of today for 15 days. March 29th Mr. O'Brien could you just clarify your edit that you like to make so we make sure we have the dates? Certainly just to avoid any vagaries in terms of timing because it looks like you're really talking about a March 15th date for the actual physical closure to commence on the gaming floors I think a 15 date from today effectuates the purpose and intent of the parties on the call but makes it very certain in terms of the calendar. So March 29th Mr. O'Brien? Yes. Okay um that edit will be made. Do we have any for the discussion on the motion as presented by commissioners? I hear none but no further edits for the discussion do I have a second? Second. Okay I will do a roll call um for our commissioners so that we know that we have a uh a recorded vote. Mr. O'Brien? Aye. Commissioner Cameron? Aye. Commissioner Stevens? Aye. Commissioner Symonica? Aye. And Chair Faucias? Thank you we have um our uh our vote has passed 5-0 that could be reflected. Sheriff I know you're taking our minutes we appreciate your resistance and Todd we know that you have been monitoring this. Um we have completed the the first item on the agenda I have no further um edits been identified for today. Please stay tuned we anticipate convening another meeting on these the details um to the forefront and we appreciate uh many of the members of the MGC staff today on their Saturday morning to hear this news that's important to their daily lives. We appreciate all of the representatives who have joined us from our three licenses as always I appreciate my fellow commissioners joining us thank you for um tolerating um uh uh our virtual we appreciate and the many generals um guidance on and um leave that they've granted uh to allow us to do this virtually paying the interest of everyone's safety so thank you and I have a motion for adjourn this meeting. So moved by Commissioner Stevens. Second by Commissioner Cameron. Thank you uh Commissioner Cameron. Aye. Commissioner O'Brien. Aye. Commissioner Stevens. Aye. Commissioner Zinigal. Aye. And the chair votes yes. Five is there in this meeting is adjourned. Thank you and have a good Saturday. Speak safe.