 By the way, commissioners, we have a full house on the 13th floor now in terms of our cubbies. One is kind of empty pending a hire, but all the cubbies outside of our offices are full and it makes for great atmosphere, so something to celebrate here. All right. All good to go. All right. Good morning. So the convening of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. We are convening for an agenda-studying meeting followed by a public meeting. And I have to do a roll call because we're holding this virtually. So Commissioner O'Brien. Good morning. I'm here. Good morning. Commissioner Hill. I'm here. Morning. Commissioner Skinner. Good morning. And good morning, Commissioner Maynard. Good morning. And we're going to get started, Commissioner Hill, with some minutes. Yes, Madam Chair. I move that the commission approve the minutes from the May 24, 2023 and June 7, 2023 agenda-studying meetings that are included in the commissioner's packet subject to any necessary corrections for typographical errors or other non-material matters. Say it again. Thank you. Any edits, comments? All right. Commissioner O'Brien. Hi. Commissioner Hill. Hi. Commissioner Skinner. Hi. Commissioner Maynard. Hi. And I vote yes, so 5-0. And we're going to turn right to our administrative notes. Karen, it's out, but I understand from Burke. You will be presenting. Good morning. Oh, there you go. Yes. Hi, couldn't find my cursor. Yeah, we'll have a casino update. This was Thursday to 29th next Thursday. And I'll tie in a little bit about slot machines, denominations, and how that works. And we'll see what the summer season holds at the casinos. Great. My speakers are doing. Could you hear me? I'm sorry. I don't know if you can hear me. We can hear you, but madam chair, we cannot hear you speaking. That's a little better. Yeah, let's see if it. It's a self-tame. Can you hear me now? Yeah, it's saying something on my screen. So Burke, please. I'm sorry. Okay. On Thursday 29th next week, we'll get a casino update. I'm looking forward to contacting the casinos. They have planned for the summer season. Additionally, going to tie in a little slot presentation that has to do with the different denominations, how machines are played today. And just an update on the technology and how a one-cent game could, in essence, be a 25-cent game, pending how many lines played and how many credits you used. Great. Thank you. I'm looking forward to that, Burke. All right. And we'll have some minutes. Commissioner Hill. Yes. Okay. And then Brad and Grace, any legislative update that you think we'll have for that day? I don't think we're going to have any updates for that particular date. We're still waiting for action to take place in the legislature. And a lot of bills are in conference right now. And I don't think they'll be ready by then. Just a reminder, that letter on the racing went out, right, Grace? It did. Yes. Great. Thank you. All right. And Judy, good morning. Good morning, chair. Good morning, commissioners. Yeah. And you'll be all set for the minutes on the 29th. That's correct. Okay. Got two sets. Thank you. All right. And then we'll turn to regulations right now. My management. Is that it? Do you think? Yep. That's correct. I'll have everything for that one. And I think there's one other regulation matter that I think is set to come in as well. And I'll get everything. I believe we're just going to be looking at comments from 250605. Yep. Okay. So I'll get you two packets later on this afternoon, Grace. So Grace, just comments and that's on the logo. That's what Carrie said to me last week. Yeah. Just comments. Just comments. Okay. No vote. All right. Yeah. Excellent. Thank you. Then we turn to sports wagering update. Yes. We'll have an update on the lottery by Crystal. And then I believe we had some house rules updates by Sturl. And I think that will be it. Do you know who those house update house rules updates are coming from? I believe draft King Sturl. Are you on? Was a minute ago. Draft Kings and stuff. We'll have them all to you by the end of the week. Yeah, there is a two of my believe I'm not a hundred percent sure who the other one is. And I think there might be a reg request for a waiver or two that Crystal, were you working on that? I am, but they won't be for the 29. Okay. Okay. And, and Bruce, it might be a good time to to just a their Sturl now. Maybe just high level a couple of lines on on the program that you just showed me. Okay. Okay. Did you want to ask Sturl for some clarification? Sturl, who do we all have house rules on coming up next week? Draft Kings and who else was the other? We don't, we don't have any in in we're waiting for draft Kings. They want to be proactive, but I have still not received it. Okay. Of yet. That's the only one that I have at the moment. Okay. And didn't we have a game request as well? We do have a game request. I have haven't started reviewing it yet for LIV. Okay. Okay. I'll set then. Yes. Let me have the budget, the final budget. Commissioner Skinner. Yes. Derek and the finance team will be prepared for the 29 already to go the deadline for the submission of public comments on the budget for FY 24 was yesterday. I believe at 5pm and no comments were received. Oh, okay. Thanks. Yes, that's a good sign. All righty. I'm returning to pressure Brian. Your. The vote you're seeking. Right. And then that would queue us up for moving into the vote for the officers, the meeting after that, I think. So all of us should read that in advance of this meeting and then have will present questions to you. And then vote. Yep. All right. So that would maybe a great race. You can bring that up in our box again. Thanks. Then we turn to our game sense quarterly report. Is long on. Or is it Dr. Andrews is covering. Hi, Bonnie. Hi, I apologize. I'm having some speaker issues today. So I'm joined by Bonnie. We can hear you clearly. So in terms of game sense, will we be all set? Yes, we should be all set for the game sense quarterly update. I think long is also joining. Yeah. Hi, Commissioner. Yes, we should be all set at 29th. How much time do we expect like about half an hour? Like last time we've done that the last few times correct. So I think we allocated 45 minutes, 15 minutes to do the data and then 30 minutes for the council for the VSC data. Yes. Okay. All right. You're going to leave with the VSC or you're going to leave with game sense. So we will leave with the VSC. So I'm going to present the data first and then I would transition over to the council. Okay. Excellent. Thanks. And thanks. No problem. Okay. And then Dr. Andrews, we have the Springfield project. Yes, we are all set to present the Springfield project. We're very excited about that. Yeah. And do Grayson, Bonnie, do you know how much time for that? That's been allocated? 30 minutes. That's to be about 30. Yes, 30 minutes. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. Dr. I've done. Yes, grow. You're on you. Very well done. Sorry, Alex. You go ahead. Oh, so that that item is should be ready to go. Paul Ambrillo asked if he could have a couple of his board members also speak to it very briefly, two or three minutes. That's okay with the commission commissioners. But okay. All right. Yeah. Okay. And Judy's been working from the legal end of it if she'd like to speak to it. Yeah. So we'll just have a memo and a short presentation. But I just wanted to get in front of Alice one last time to just kind of take a look at and then we'll get it over to Grace. Okay. Good. All right. And then we have Alex, we have the local eight payments and there's a little bit of an analysis that we're going to go through for this or is that for another time? That's going to be wrapped into the delegation of authority. Okay. So not for the 20 right? Yeah, we also had number 12 the jockey guild recognition. Oh, sorry. Yeah. And that's all set. Okay. So the two quarterly local eight payments. And then the jockeys and then the escrow and then which I mean or you're going to work with Alex on that delegation with with the legal. Okay. Excellent. Thanks. Okay. Anything else for the 29th? I think the only thing I've got in my mind and I'm turning to you, Heather. I, I know that we had on an earlier agenda in a public meeting public safety with respect to all three facilities as a sort of a check in and we did it through an executive session. And I know we had a follow up session planned. And I'm just wondering about the timing on that. Thank you, chair. There is definitely, I think a need to come back to the commission with that particular issue. And I do know that director Lilia has recently reached out to the operators. So I don't have a specific confirmation that we could go forward on the 29th, but I can certainly get back to you and grace on that in terms of schedule. It may not be to the 29th, but I'm just right now remembering that I have on my mind. So, you know, we can go to the 12th to I just wanted to make sure I didn't forget Heather. So bear with me for a future date, but I think probably commissioners, we'd rather have it sooner than later, but it has to be something that works for all the operators and for IEB. We could also do it on a different date. And so, but it would be an executive session. Commissioner Brian, your thoughts. No, I'm thinking of something else we might want to talk about on the 29th. Okay, great. But you agreed that we want to sort of circle back on that on that matter too. Okay. Great. Thank you. All right. Commissioner Brian. So I was thinking we should all get the executive director's job description and you need to talk about the job description and process to get moving on that also. Yeah. That's those discussions are underway. Yeah. So, okay. So I would like the job. I would like to see the most recent executive director job posting. I think all of us should have it so that we can all then talk about that and get moving on it because time is going to come on as fast as we realize. I asked Dave yesterday, Commissioner Brian, so that request, I haven't seen it or anything, but I did ask Dave for that. So we'll make sure and then I think we'll probably address these matters in a full public meeting rather than agenda setting. Okay. Right. I just didn't know if we wanted to put it on for the 29th or when the date is that we're going to talk about it. That's why I brought it up. Thank you. Yeah. Is there an answer or? The 29th may work out. It might be a July or early. I just think we're scheduling the challenges. Okay. Thanks. Anything else for the 29th? Okay. All right. Then moving on to July 12th. We don't have much scheduled right now. If other than our, our standing items, is there something that the team has in addition? July 11th, Madam Chair. My notes say July 12th. I'm sorry. We have a meeting scheduled an agenda setting and then a public meeting after on the 12th is what? So the 11th is the regularly scheduled public meeting. And then on the 12th, we have agenda setting. And on the 12th, we also just have regulations because we needed to get my apologies. I flipped off. My apologies, Grace. I'll start over. So on July 11th, we do we're starting at 10 a.m. And we have some regular, we have a place for regulations. Judy, I don't know if you have details for that for the 11th or not. I really took coming back and tabling off of me. I see a couple of regs on for 712. But I think at this point, the regs that we would bring forward on the 11th would be first time regs. So I will have to get back to you on those. Yes. Now I see that the 12th is a regulations only. So maybe there's not any more plan. Okay. Sports wage rate. I'm sure we will have something by that date. But right at this moment, I don't have something to put on. Okay. I know that we put our waivers on that date. Sorry. We do have two waiver requests outstanding. One is for responsible gaming limits to 48. And then the other is for the confidential information and personally identifiable information security. That's an awful 238 to 238 and 248. There are some waiver requests right now. Okay. Do you hear me because I'm. Yes, I can hear you. Okay. Good. Thank you. All right. Then we have of course, that's a day for the expansion. My apologies. Joe. Yes, madam chair. We should be all set for that. Can you remind me what we'll be talking about in particular on that? So, so before we had that the second public hearing, we had a meeting where we went over what some of the issues were that that arose out of the first public hearing. And those items that we wanted to ask on core to address in their application to us for a modification to their gaming license and their operation certificate. So this what will be coming in front of you on the 11th is really I'm working it up as really a draft letter to on core. Requesting certain information as part of their application to us for consideration of the Easter Broadway project. And then, oh, then we vote on the 11th. I shall buy it on the opposite themselves. All right. And then we have a request from PPC. Well, let's remind me about what that's about. I think we skip number seven. Oh, my attention of officers. I got a nod from Commissioner Bryant. Okay. Sorry. They had five different requests, the capital improvement and promo fund request for consideration and for payment and then a paramutual type of paramutual wagering that they would like to offer. And again, the wages wagering is already in all of our regulations, but part of the regulations is if they're offering something new that they have not been offering that they need to come to the commission approval. So we'll be all set for that. Yep. Okay. Anything else for the 11th? All right. I'm not hearing anything. Then we turn to the 12th. I can take these ones. So we will not have minutes on July 12th. Just the two sets that we'll have for July 11th, but the three regs that we'll have coming forward for a vote of final finalization will be 222 construction oversight and monitoring that section of 205 CMR 256 regarding affiliate marketing and third parties. And then lastly, we'll have 205 CMR 239, the continuing disclosure reg. And so you're meeting minutes on the 11th. Do you have those dates, Judy? Yes, I do. I got them over to Grace, but it's going to be January 12th and January 18th, 2023. Okay. Thanks. Grace is all set then. Thank you. All right. Nothing else for the 12th? Okay. Then I guess we're turning then to our calendar just to make sure everybody's all set on anticipated dates. We'd have an agenda setting meeting on the 26th commissioners, public meeting on the 27th. So back to back. Gender setting on the second, public meeting on the 10th, kind of getting into our every two weeks cycle if possible. If it turns out that our next agenda setting, we have the ability to take time of meeting off during the summer or two, that would be great. Want to make sure that the team's work is progressing, but we also want to make sure you have the break that you need. Okay. As you look at that meeting schedule, anybody have any concerns, commissioners? Okay. Okay. And we have this Friday, of course, an adjudicatory hearing commissioners for a qualifier. Is that a telecom star, Grace? Yes, it's a 10 a.m. star. Okay. Thanks. All right. We're under review. My love. Yeah, that's still under review. Okay. Then we've got Encore, Broadway. What do you have with the dates? Yeah, that's going to be popping up from time to time. So at this point in time, we'll just go with what happens on July 11th, right, Joe? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Then we have the racing regs. Do we have any further information on that, Judy? The racing, the ADW regs and that whole package. Yes. So we've got those moving right now. I think we're going through a couple more rounds of internal review, but I would anticipate that we would get them back in front of the commissioners and out of public meeting sometime later this summer. I would say maybe one of the later July meetings or a meeting in August. Alex, that works for you. Yes. Yes. Okay. Compliance committee. Eileen, we should probably, you and I should probably have a conversation was legal about that so that we can decide whether or not this continues or not. All right. I remember five. Mr. Skinner and Joe. Yeah. So I'm in the process of setting up those meetings now our initial meetings. I should say with our licensee. So that should stay under review for the time being. Okay. Back up with respect to Encore Broadway expansion. I remember too, Brad, you have raised some questions at the last public meeting that were related to Encore Broadway expansion. All right. Can I ask that you work with legal and Joe to see yet guidance on it from a legal perspective and then we can work and see how we move forward on any of those items for the agenda. Does that make sense? Yes. Absolutely. Okay. Great. Yep. Okay. Mr. Skinner, you all set with that to that plan. Okay. Then the 90 day audit. Yes, we have bullet proof approved. Now is the only audit unit. So I assume that these will all be done by like mid July's to report on. So I'm following up with the licensees to make sure that they're in motion with the approved audit team. So I'd love to. I thought that went well the other day. I'd love if there's a possibility. Judy for hot to just put his opening piece into a, you know, one page or memo. And then there would be like a list of all of those that are seeking this certification and include Christians. Nice oral comments too. And then we'll have it in writing. It will make, you know, really clear to us what you expect in the regs that are cited. I'm sure that Grace and Crystal can help too on that idea, but as we continue to sort of streamline the process. Yes. That'd be great because I think they both were reading their comments. So I think it just can be shifted into a memo. That's great. Thank you. And then, you know, we will be able to have your recommendations stir on and losing Christian on that. Okay. Delegation of authority vote. Is that the 90 day audit piece of bullet proof? Or is that something different? That was a certification for something different than a 90 day audit or am I wrong? Bruce. I'm sorry. But I'm just, I'm realizing that was the bullet proof that wasn't related to the 90 day audit. Was it? Yes, that that was to prove them to be the 90 day audit auditor. That's right. That's it. Okay. And there are many that are kind of in the pool for that was the only one that actually sent in the application. Yeah, you're expecting. All right. Thank you for reminding me. I had to think of certifying the auditors themselves. Okay. And then the application authority. I think we're waiting for Todd to write up the what the final thing would be. Okay. And I think Commissioner Maynard has graciously offered to get some assistance on that memorization if that would help lead home. Right. I saw Todd in the hallway and had an old fashioned conversation about it. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. We'll get that done for you, Alex. And then there's a beverage license issue from licensing Heather. Are you aware about that? I'm not sure, but I will make myself aware of it. And I've been with Kara, I'm sure Kara and Loretta have talked about it and I will definitely touch base with them on that. Because if it needs to go on the 29th, we'll just you know, we'll bring it up because I do remember it was pulled right grace. Yeah. This has come up in the past and they just weren't quite ready. I believe they're looking to transform a space near the property and have a beverage license for it. And they just weren't quite ready at the past meeting. And so it's still on here from Kara. So I think that's reasonable as well on time. Yeah. And I can check in with her also and I'll talk grace after. Thank you. Just like Grace, no, if it needs to go on the 29th. Okay. So anything else that needs to go on under review other than I think I brought up the the public safety and then, of course, our process for the hiring of the executive director that chair. I have one item I would like to add in and thinking for maybe July 27th. We wanted to bring to the commission. We're considering our review team. Our community mitigation fund review team has been talking quite a bit about some perhaps large changes to the community mitigation fund. And we wanted to at first sort of introduce at least what some of the concepts are to the entire commission with that we've been working with commissioner Hill on this and we're going to talk to our local community mitigation advisory committees and so on about some of these ideas. But we wanted to bring that to the commission to at least get the commissions essentially blessing to kind of go down that road. Do you have an idea of the timing you'd like for that? Well, I think if we were, you know, we would if we were going to make those changes, we wouldn't want to do those this fall and and put them into, you know, a new set of guidelines, you know, by the end of the by the end of the year or by November as we usually do. So either perhaps July 11th or the last meeting. Yeah, it would have to be no earlier than the meeting on I think it's the 27th. I couldn't quite hear the 27th. That would be all right. That may be the 27th of July and then maybe we'd have a little bit of room to have less in August. A couple of meetings last or something in August. Yeah, and if the 27th didn't work, I would look at then maybe August 10th as the fallback to that. Let's shoot for the 27th. Yeah. Yeah, I would rather get it started sooner rather than later. And then maybe we can free up August a little bit for the team. Okay. Excellent. Anything else? Thank you, Joe. Anything else? Thanks, everyone. We have a public meeting starting at 10. Nothing further? I think Bonnie has already ended up. Oh, sorry. There you go, Bonnie. You shifted and I, I didn't go up there. My apologies. Thank you, everyone. Dr. Andrews, it's okay. We're fine. Are you doing notes? Do you want to do in the chat? Did I read your mind? I'm not. She's not able to unmute. Right. So do you want to just say what you're looking for to add to the agenda? So it's going to be a test of how fast you can type. Okay. Two economic reports. And are you looking for that in the month of July or August or could we move it to the fall? Ideally. Okay. Ideally the month of August. So when we have, let's look at our schedule and figure out Grace who the outside speakers are, if there are any to accommodate Dr. Andrews schedule and then you know, maybe that's, that's what we build around an August meeting on. Right. Commissures and try to keep on August a little freed up. Okay. Does that make sense? Anything else you can type away. We're still reading. Okay. That works. Thank you. Perfect, Bonnie. Perfect. Okay. And is there anyone else? I'm sorry if I missed that. All right. Commissures, you're all set. Right. I need a motion to adjourn and we'll see you at 10. Move to adjourn. Thank you. Second. Thank you. Brian. Hi. Commissioner Hill. Hi. Commissioner Skinner. Hi. Commissioner Maynard. Hi. And I believe.