Good morning. This is a convening of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission and because we're holding this meeting virtually, I'll do my roll call. Good morning, Commissioner O'Brien. Good morning, I'm here. Good morning, Commissioner Hill. Good morning, I'm here. Good morning, Commissioner Skinner. Good morning. And good morning, Commissioner Maynard. Good morning, Madam Chair. Okay, and this is a public meeting. It's Monday, June 12. Public meeting number 458, and we have really one matter on our agenda for today, and that is to hear from the applicant for category two sports wagering operator license, and that is being submitted by what we will refer to as Rainham Park, Massachusetts Greyhound Association. Before we get started, I'm going to give some introductory remarks. Today, as we begin our evaluation of this application, we as commissioners are reminded of our principal responsibility. And that is to ensure the public confidence in the integrity of the gaming industry here in Massachusetts and the strict oversight of the gaming establishments and now sports wagering operators through rigorous regulation. We are reminded that the commission's licensees are held to the highest standards of compliance, including an obligation to maintain their integrity. And as we've said in the past, the award of a gaming license and the Commonwealth is a careless privilege. And our laws require licensees to be held to those highest standards on a continuing basis. The commission's mission commits us to creating a fair, transparent and participatory process that engenders the confidence of the public and its participants. That process is intended to benefit the Commonwealth while minimizing potential for realized negative or unintended consequences. With that understanding, the commission and all its powers are created by statute. We must follow the process required by the law. As I indicated today, we'll turn to an application submitted by Massachusetts Greyhound Association, seeking category two license, which will offer the applicant the opportunity for retail sports wagering, as well as the opportunity to partner with an MGC license category three online sports offered under General Laws Chapter 23N. So to shed further light on that process, I'll turn now to General Counsel Grossman. Good morning, Tom. Good morning, Madam Chair, and hello everybody. As we've discussed on several occasions, suitability is an important part of the sports wagering licensing process, regardless of the category of license being evaluated. The statutory construct is somewhat complex and that the language in Chapter 23N pertaining to sports wagering is slightly different from the familiar language in Chapter 23K relating to casino gaming. It's this complexity we must deal with now and this statutory scheme with which we must comply. Significantly, the timing of the full suitability investigation and ultimate determination by the commission are different under the two statutes. Chapter 23K required a full suitability determination to be made before licensure of the casino gaming operators. By contrast, Chapter 23N allows for licensure prior to completing the full review, although such decision is subject to further review is described in the regulations and which I'll discuss momentarily. For an applicant that has not gone through a full suitability process, the way the casinos have under Chapter 23K, such as the applicant before you today, Chapter 23N and 205CMR direct that only a temporary license can be issued prior to a full suitability decision being made, provided that all of the standards have been satisfied. It's also worth noting that the evaluation of this application, as with the others, will be conducted as part of the public meeting process. The proceeding today is not an adjudicatory hearing. Review of any licensee for final or durable suitability would take place at a later time after completion of a thorough investigation that would include an informed determination relative to any individuals or entities which bear on an applicant's suitability, and after a full consideration and a properly convened adjudicatory hearing. In the interim, an applicant may be deemed eligible to operate under a temporary license upon a finding of preliminary suitability. The preliminary suitability determination may be considered in multiple steps to ensure that the commission is satisfied that the requisite standards have been met. And Chair Judd Stein, I believe you wish to conclude your opening remarks. Thank you, Attorney Gressman, and thank you to my fellow commissioners for your commitment to the commission's mission for your thoughtfulness and diligence today over the course of this licensing process. As I've said before, I continue to feel very fortunate to serve with you as we continue our work implementing this new law with the public's interest in the forefront. And again, too, it's okay for us to pause and say this year has been demanding and will continue to be demanding on our MGC team, the team of excellence under the leadership of Executive Director Wells. We are grateful for the team's contribution to the contribution each of you make as a team individually and as collaborative colleagues. We thank you for your dedication as public servants and commitment to the MGC mission. With that, let me provide a brief overview of today's agenda. First, you'll hear again from Attorney Grossman who will review the statutory and regulatory framework that will guide us as we evaluate the applicant before us. Then the applicant, Massachusetts Great Hound Association Inc., which we're likely to revert to as Rainham Park or MGN, MGA, throughout the course of the review, will present its application for category two license using 205CMR to 18.06 subsection five as guidance. Following the presentation from the applicant, as we have done previously, we'll hear from representatives from GLI relative to the technical components of the application from the IED relative to the applicant's preliminary financial suitability and from RSM relative to its financial and economic analysis of the application. And that will lead us commissioners to a section by section analysis of the application during which the applicant will be available to answer any questions we may have. Staff members and our legal team, in addition to GLI, the IED and RSM, will also be available to answer questions. We thank them in advance. After we have discussed each section of the application, I will see comments from the commissioners and inquires to whether we have a consensus regarding the quality of the applicant's response to that section. Meaning, excuse me, did the applicant not meet expectations relevant to the standard of review outlined by General Counsel Grossman? Did the applicant meet expectations? Or did the applicant exceed expectations? The one exception to this relates to the suitability section of this application. We will not complete that evaluation today. Instead, we'll simply consider the financial suitability applicant today. And we will reconvene in the future to conduct an evaluation of the overall suitability of the applicant for purposes of determining whether to issue a finding of preliminary suitability. At any time during this public meeting, the commission may determine that an executive session is required for us to fully review and evaluate certain information in the application as set forth on the agenda. And should we commissioners vote to go into executive session with the guidance of our legal counsel, at this time it is anticipated that the public session of the commission meeting will reconvene today at the conclusion of any such executive session. After our review of the application today, we will adjourn the proceedings and then snow to schedule further proceedings to complete our evaluation process. And at that junction, as we have done in the past, we will consider whether we wish to proceed with our determination fully or in part or defer that decision entirely to another day. Okay, with that, I'll now turn it back to you, General Counsel Grossman, and our agenda item number two. Thank you again, Madam Chair. We're here today, of course, so that the commission may begin the evaluation of the application received for category two sports wagering license from Massasoid Greyhound Association Inc. This is the entity licensed to conduct the simulcasting operation at Rainham Park. Prior to commencing the review, however, it may be useful to set the stage by walking through the legal provisions and principles that will inform the commission's decision making over the course of this process. I'll add a few provisions of the Massachusetts Sports Waging Act, which is of course has been enacted as Chapter 23N of the general laws, and then a number of sections of the commission's regulations, which were recently adopted. Of course, as always, questions and comments are invited along the way, but allow me to begin with Chapter 23N. And the first place there to look is the applicable provision of Section 6B2, which says, quote, that the commission shall issue a category two license to Little Three, a Greyhound meeting licensee that conducted simulcast wagering as of December 31, 2020, as authorized by law, meets the requirements of this chapter and the rules and regulations of the commission, provided, however, that any holder of a category two license shall not be issued a category one license, and provided further that no more than one category two license shall be issued to any one person entity or affiliate or close associate of such person or entity, and quote. In the present matter, MGA has submitted the application under Little Section 3 on the basis that it is a Greyhound meeting licensee that conducted simulcast wagering as of December 31, 2020. Accordingly, if the commission so finds and the applicant otherwise meets the requirements of Chapter 23N and 205CMR that I'll discuss momentarily, then it shall be issued a category two sports wagering operator license. Before we look at the commission's regulations that govern the licensing process for category two applicant, we should discuss what a category two sports wagering operator license is. The term is defined in Chapter 23N section three to mean as applicable, quote, a license issued by the commission that permits the operation of sports wagering in person on the premises where little to the licensee is authorized by law to conduct simulcast wagering on horse or racing, and through not more than one individually branded mobile application or other digital platform approved by the commission, provided that the mobile applications or other digital platform shall be qualified for an issued a category three license, and provided further that the commission may issue a category two license to three to sub three a Greyhound meeting licensee that conducted simulcast wagering as of December 31, 2020, as authorized by law, and provided further that a category two licensee shall make a capital investment of not less than $7.5 million within three years after receiving a sports wagering license and quote. If this applicant were to be awarded a category two license, it would be permitted to operate an in person retail sports wagering operation where it is authorized to conduct simulcast wagering. And it would be permitted to conduct sports wagering via one mobile application or digital platform. This category two license is the tool that enables the licensee to operate through the one mobile platform. But remember of course that the entity that actually operates that platform would itself have to be licensed as a category three operator. Now let's have a look at the commission's rules and regulations that must be met by the applicant in order to be issued a license. The best place to begin is with 205 CMR 218 which as you know is the section that sets out the application requirements, the standards and the procedures. Momentarily will walk through the factors and standards the commission has set out for the award of the license. Prior to doing so there are a few other provisions and principles that are important to keep in mind. The regulations provide that the commission shall analyze the factors and considerations set out in the regulations but need not do so in any particular order, or give any individual factor any particular weight, and can in fact assign a factor no weight at all of deemed appropriate. Next you'll recall that the regulations provide that the commission may require or permit the applicant to provide additional information or documents as the commission deems appropriate in its review of the application. If you're evaluating the information provided in the application relative to a particular factor, and you determine that further information is required, you may direct the applicant to provide it. Similarly, if during the course of the commission's evaluation the applicant observes that there is additional information that was not provided that may be of use to the commission, it may request an opportunity to provide it. Further, as I mentioned earlier, it's noteworthy that the present review is being conducted as part of a regular public meeting under the open meeting law and not an adjudicatory proceeding. That means a number of things including that all the term deliberations must take place in public, and that if necessary the executive session provisions of chapter 30 a maybe utilized. What pertains to the instant matter section 21 a seven of chapter 30 a allows the commission to move into executive session to comply with or act under the authority of any general law. In the present situation there is a general law that gives the commission authority to move into executive session. Specifically section six little I of chapter 23 and provides that quote applications for operator licenses shall be public records under section 10 of chapter 66 provided however that trade secrets, competitively sensitive or other proprietary information provided in the course of an application for an operator license under this chapter, the disclosure of which would place the applicant at a competitive disadvantage, maybe withheld from disclosure under the public records law, and quote. And some of there is any specific information that the commission would like to discuss, but that the applicant or commission identifies as falling within that provision that I just read, or potentially the privacy or investigatory exemption to the public records law, and may move into executive session to discuss that specific information. The statutory provision of chapter 23 and relates to the public records law and not the open meeting law to require that the subject information be discussed publicly would nullify the whole purpose of the provision which is designed to protect such information. Accordingly application of the executive session provision I referenced is appropriate in this instance. Before moving into the factors themselves, it's also important to recall that any finding the commission makes must be supported by substantial evidence. This term is defined as evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion. Making a determination as to whether there is support in the application to find that a specific factor has been satisfied, or has not been the commission will have to ensure that there is substantial evidence in the record to support the conclusion. The one exception to this rule and an area in which a heightened standard is applied relates to the review of an applicant suitability. In terms of section 215 of the regulations, any durable finding of suitability must be supported by clear and convincing evidence, not just substantial evidence which is a slightly lower standard. Since we won't be getting to that final determination here as part of this review, I won't get into the definition of clear and convincing proof at this juncture. But those are the two standards of review, if you will, that will be in play during this evaluation. Let me lay out the factors included in section 218. One way you may choose to work through the evaluation that will follow when we get to that part of the proceeding would be to take the application factor by factor and begin to draw conclusions as to the quality of the information supporting each one. You'll recall that the commission also included some factors under each of the factors. I'm not getting a discussion on any particular factor in taking your final review. It may be helpful to pause to outline each of these sub factors though I'll not do that right now. The factors are included in section 218.06 subsection five. The first factor falls under the umbrella standard the commission included in the regulations which directs that in determining whether to award a sports majoring operator license. The commission will evaluate the application to determine quote whether a license award would benefit the commonwealth end quote. So that's the main standard that will have to be met in order to award a license. When reaching that conclusion the commission provided that will consider the following factors and you'll recall of course that the application itself was designed so as to elicit information in each of these categories. Number one the applicants experience and expertise related to sports wager. Number two, the economic impact and other benefits to the commonwealth if the applicant is awarded a license. Number three the applicants proposed measures related to responsible gaming. Number four the applicants willingness to foster racial, ethnic and gender diversity equity and inclusion. Number five the technology the applicant intends to use in its operation. Number six the suitability of the applicant and its qualifiers and we'll come back to this one momentarily. And number seven any other appropriate factor in the commission's discretion. So this is a category two application there are a couple of additional findings you'll be called upon to make in order to award a license to this applicant. First you'll have to find that the applicant is a greyhound meeting licensee that conducted simulcast wagering as of December 31 2020 as authorized by law, and that the proposed location of the retail in person operation is the premises, where it is authorized by law to conduct simulcast wagering on horse or greyhound racing. Another distinction in the law as it relates to category two applicants is that if awarded a license, the licensee is required to make a capital investment of not less than $7.5 million within three years after receiving a sports wagering license. So you'll want to look at this applicant's plan to comply with that requirement as well. And those are all the factors that will be reviewed. I'd just like to circle back briefly to the suitability factor for a moment though. I know that the commission adopted section 215 of the regulations to govern suit govern suitability determinations. This section allows for two different types of suitability findings at this time, a durable finding of suitability, which is essentially the final determination, and the commission also included a provision allowing for a preliminary In order to award a durable finding of suitability the commission would have to conclude that the applicant and each of its qualifiers demonstrated their suitability by clear and convincing proof at an adjudicatory proceeding. I'd submit that where the applicant and all qualifiers presently before you have not been subjected to a thorough probity investigation. By the IEB or review at an adjudicatory proceeding conducted by the commission, this applicant would likely not qualify for the durable finding of suitability at this juncture. As a practical matter that means that the commission is considering whether there's evidence in the record to support a conclusion that the individual applicants are preliminarily suitable. This finding requires review under the substantial evidence standard, not the clear and convincing standard. Under the regulations of finding a preliminary suitability at this stage makes the applicant eligible to request a temporary license to conduct operations while a complete suitability assessment is performed. To reiterate though the commission will not be reaching this suitability decision today as you'll only be looking at a piece of the applicant suitability will return to this issue in the near future so that you may determine whether preliminary finding suitability may enter. As your weight you work your way through the overall evaluation and may become clear that a condition of licensure will be appropriate in a particular area. For example you may find the information relative to a particular factor is lacking. And that event it does not mean that the applicant cannot be awarded a license. It may simply mean that the area may require to be supplemented with an appropriate condition. License conditions are described in section 220 of the regulations. You'll recall that there are a number of automatic conditions like an obligation to obtain an operation certificate prior to commencing operations, and that the operator comply with chapter 23 and and all commission regulations. In the case of the category to licensee there's also that aforementioned capital investment report. But there is also a provision in the regulations that allows the commission to impose any other condition that it determines is appropriate to ensure the objectives of chapter 23 and and 205 CMR. As a practical matter I might suggest that the commission begins discussing any additional conditions as part of the review of each individual factor. Then once the commission has made its way through all of the enumerating factors, but before any final decision is made as to whether to award a license, the commission should shore up with those final conditions will be in the event that commission is inclined to award the license. Once this is done the commission may decide whether it will award the category to license, determine the applicant is eligible to request a temporary license while the complete suitability assessment is performed, or to deny the application for failure to meet the requirement of the commission. At this juncture or that juncture I should say a written decision will be prepared and issued commemorating the commission's decision. And of course that the award of the license does not mean that the licensee has the green light to commence operations. It simply means that they're eligible to work towards the award of an operation certificate, which is a prerequisite to conducting sports wager and the process is described in section 251 and requires submission and approval of such things as the internal controls including the house rules and compliance with any conditions that may be imposed. And with that madam chair and commissioners I will pause and turn things back over to you madam chair. We're both on mute. Okay, madam chair you're on mute. I had a conversation with myself. That's where you Todd well anyway thank you, Councillor Grossman. And we're turning now to item number three on our agenda and I want to say good morning to our representatives from Rainham Park. I understand that you're all in the same office room. I want to make sure I got this right. Good morning chair. It's dead nozzle. I serve as outside regulatory County Council to Massachusetts Great House Association and as you reference, I think we will refer today to them as Rainham Park or MGA throughout the presentation. Good morning. I've got attorney no so good morning. Good morning, Mr. Carney. How are you today. I can't be any better. Good morning. I really appreciate the opportunity come before the Commission today to present my case. And I feel that we'd be great. There would be a great opportunity for the people that work for me, as well as great opportunities for the state we have a great location. I've run successful operations at Rainham and town for many, many years.  And I think I understand the way that the Commission wants the place to be run and we will comply with all the standards that they put upon us. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Carney and I know we're going to get started with your presentation. I just want to also recognize. Mr. Brooks, Robert Brooks. And then, good morning, Ms. Rogers. Is it Rodriguez or Rogers? You said it properly, Rodriguez. Thank you. Thank you. I wanted to make sure I wasn't wrong. But good morning. Good morning, Sue Rogers. And so I understand that we'll be presenting the, you'll be controlling the presentation today. So. Yes, we'll pull that up now chair and I'll introduce the rest of the team and I'm going to give an opportunity to our, our partners at at Caesar sport book also introduce themselves as we start the presentation. So, if you're ready, we're happy to jump into it. Okay, if you want to do this introductions now I can, I see you clearly and so others you may have to raise your hand if I haven't spotted. So thank you so much. Sure. I will. I'll do those introductions now to the for the rest of the team I think you introduce Sue Roderick's vice president of operations and also Bob Brooks vice president of operations. We also have here with us in the room. Our CFO, which is Joe. Good morning. We also have our chief compliance officer. Kevin Regan. Good morning. We have our chief of surveillance. Michael Michelle. Good morning. Yep. As well as our chief of security, David word now. Good morning. Thank you. Thank you. And I have the presentation now in front of me commissioners. Can you all. Can you all see it okay. Yes. Okay. All right, great. Thank you. So chair just a quick run through the agenda before we get going and as I think you indicated at the beginning of your remarks. We essentially plan to go through our presentation largely aligned with the commission's evaluation criteria and 205. And then we'll jump into our two 18, and you can see here those various components. We do have some introductory materials for you a little background on random park. A little, a little bit deeper dive into the actual facility. And then we'll jump into the various components. And then we'll get ready to introduce the random park team. Here you can see sort of everybody introduced it in our current management structure in how we will run and operate. And I do want to turn it over now to Eric has seen from Caesar's will be presenting along with us in connection with certain components of the of the presentation where we'll be relying on our partner, Caesar's to bring in some of their expertise to help us have a successful and compliant project. Yeah, thank you very much.  I'm Eric has shown the president of Caesar's digital. And with me today is Jeff Hendricks, our SPP assistant general counsel and regulatory and compliance leader. And Ken Fuchs, who runs our sports book and digital operations. Dave Grohlman who runs our retail operations. Heather rap, who you've met before as well who's that senior vice president of corporate and social responsibility. And Dan Shapiro, our chief development officer, as well as Floyd Baroga, who's our vice president project compliance. It's a pleasure to be in front of you again today and we look forward to presenting with the Marine and Park team as we go through our presentation here. Thanks, Eric. So before we jump into some of the more details of our application I do want to take a step back and talk a little bit about random park. Mr. Carney indicated in his opening remarks. It's a long time, Massachusetts business. It opened in 1940. And in fact Mr Carney started there as a lead boy bringing Greyhounds out to the starting gate, and then he would go on to acquire the company in 1966. The track has a proud history from the 70s through the 90s is one of the premier Greyhound race tracks in the US. The first race track to hold racing seven days a week, and in fact set a world record for the largest annual handle of $240 million in 1989. At its heyday employed over 600 people. And as many of you know, the history of Greyhound racing in Massachusetts, it was decided as a policy matter through a ballot initiative to stop that practice here. It didn't stop random park from continuing as a business and it reinvented itself as a simulcast facility. And that's what random park is today. It holds a chapter 128 C Greyhound meeting license as Mr Grossman referred to earlier in his comments. It's been regulated by the mass gaming commission since the passage of the gaming act. And for decades before that, through the racing commission prior to its consolidation under the gaming commission. It's conducted same time cast wavering for a number of years, including as of 1231 2020, making it eligible to the issuance of the category to retail sports wagering license under section D, 6b to the sports wagering act. Now, and to something that we presented the commission on already but it's important to keep the operating lease agreement at the forefront of as we move through our presentation here today. It's very obviously gone over its structure I've highlighted here again, it's major components and really to boil it down. The operating lease agreement has the random park group, providing the sports wagering facility, all the support for that facility, including the surveillance and security for the sports book. Again, for the actual operation of the sports book we're going to rely heavily on Caesar sports books expertise and we're proud to partner with Caesar's in order to do that. An experienced operator, an operator that has demonstrated success. In fact, with this exact model in other jurisdictions, and really, we want to recall and make sure that this stays at the forefront during our presentation. Because part of what we're going to demonstrate today is that we're going to rely on a partner like Caesar sports book and in fact Caesar sports book in this case, in order to provide some of the requirements that the commission wants to see connection with its sports book operators. The best example of that really is in the section around technology and experience to run a sports book. As we've indicated earlier, random park has operated a simulcast facility, they've operated a dog track for a number of years. One of them though is operating a sports book, and rather than try to build that capacity internally in a relatively quick period of time, we've turned to one of the best companies out there in order to provide that service and connection with a retail operation. So this agreement does permeate itself throughout our proposal, throughout our application. But at the end of the day, and as we covered in connection with our previous presentation on this, Rainham Park, Massachusetts Greyhound Association specifically remains responsible for the operation of the sports book operators, the licensee, and I think, Commissioner, not only as a, as a, excuse me, chair, as a matter of our contract with Caesar's as you pointed out in our previous hearing, as a matter of law, they remain responsible for the operation of the sports book under our agreement and again in connection with this partnership. It's important, and it's fundamental I think to the success of this proposal, going forward. With that, I'm going to turn it over to Bob Brooks, who's going to talk a little bit more specifically about the facility, and we're pleased that the commission was able to come down and have an opportunity to see the facility, along with staff, and we've been interacting for the last four or five months, regarding the particulars of the build out. But today, we'd like to highlight what we think you're going to see or what we know you'll see in connection with a final product as well. So Bob, I'll turn it over to you. Thank you. Good morning, Madam Chair and commissioners and staff. Morning, we certainly appreciate in value time and attention to our presentation today. And we look forward to answering any questions you may have regarding our pathway to a brighter future down here in random, a continued revitalization to our area, many employment opportunities for the people down here and continued economic growth for the town of random in the surrounding cities and towns we have down by us. Before I get going, I just kind of like a touch a little bit about the background of the new facility that we're building down here on our property. As Jed touched upon when live Graham racing was voted out in common law back in 2008, and we ended that live racing for the last 12 plus years or so. We've operated just as a simulcast facility. You know, those those 600 employees over the years had dwindled down to about 72. Currently, and it was devastating to us, devastating to the Carney family, devastating to the employees, but we continued on. And when the global pandemic hit, just like all the other companies across the country across the world, we had to reevaluate what we're going to do. And Carney family made the decision to let's build let's rebuild a simulcast power and sell a large parcel of our land to keep going to keep the employees going to keep the operation going. So that's what we did. We selected a small parcel on the northeast portion of our property. We purchased a building to erect for the simulcast facility in and then engaged in talks with selling 90 plus acres of where the current Greyhound Park sits now. While this was happening, you know, the wind begin to swirl on sports betting becoming legalized in a common law. And as we looked into that, we felt we may have an opportunity to maybe acquire a retail license. So we pivoted and kind of changed the interior of the building to accommodate what we thought would be a great sportsbook atmosphere, just in case we could acquire a license. So that's how that building came to fruition up there. And, you know, we're proud of it. It's a great facility. And now the fact that we are before you. We hope that it becomes a sportsbook, not just a simulcast power. And we've spent what seems to be now just just over $30 million on the process of that new build for the community down there. So, with that being said, we're going to kind of go through a little bit of a slideshow to give you a presentation on what this new facility will look like. Next slide. Yep. So we have a little bit of the construction plan here, which we will be submitting obviously to the commission to kind of outline where we are now with the build. Thank you again commissioners for taking the time to come down and tour the new facility to see kind of where we are. We've progressed quite a bit and without some procurement of electrical panels and other equipment, we probably could get open in August, but with those construction delays. We're looking at a September opening of that new facility.  We can't really tell when these electrical panels will arrive. If they were to arrive when we think we will, we should begin in the first week of September with this new facility. Next slide. So you can see here, this is an artist rendering of the, what the outside of the building will look like once it's, once it's completed. This will give you a kind of look to feel when you enter inside the building, what we're trying to capture. You know, the ceilings are not that they're not that high 25 feet at the highest 16 feet on average, we will have an immense amount of televisions inside our building will have over 400 video displays. This is including a 63 by 10 foot video wall. We have 252 by seven foot video walls, a 30 foot by seven foot video wall, and we have a 12 foot by six foot video wall inside a small VIP area. Above both bars that you're looking at there. There are what's called sports tickers that run across the top of them this two of them they're 120 feet each by two feet high, and they basically will display sports art scores of games for the patrons for visibility purposes. This rendering here kind of shows you the different areas that we've had built inside the sports book. This is a small area seats about 75 people. It gives the ability for someone to come in and rent the space out or on a large day will just be open to the public but this house is one of our big video walls of 30 foot by seven foot on television screen. We wanted to show this slide just to kind of show the openness of the facility. It's pretty wide open. When you're standing in one corner you can almost see all the way across to the other and we kind of wanted that feel we wanted that feel for a lot of different reasons. But it gives the patron the ability to come in and select an area to sit in we've really built four different areas for customers to come in and sit in so this gives him the ability to go to a different section, get a different experience. This shows some of the early phases of the building being erected and we're extremely happy with the partnership we have with our vendors and our general contractor, and we're excited to get opened. What we have here is the actual general floor plan. In yellow is the front facing public side of our building. It's approximately 30,000 square feet. So when you walk into our vestibule area in the light pink shaded area. That's our receiving area, you'll walk through those doors, it gives you plenty of space to go to a guest relations. We have dedicated space for our responsible gaming partner right there right at the front entrance, just off the gaming floor. And then we also have just off of that floor as well as green is our first aid room. So if we have to tend to any patrons, get any assistance that's what that's located. But then the second entrance once you cross into the yellow is where you'll enter into our sports wager and floor. And that's where you'll be met by our security staff, where we will be checking identification. We're always thinking 30. So anyone under the age of 30 is going to get carded to make sure that we compliant with our 21 year older entrance only into this facility. Regardless of the fact that we will have different dining options. The entire facility will be 21 years or older. Do you want to point out the state police? So when you when you get in, when you get into the public space, the green space is off to, you know, do East and do West or back of the house operation. We've dedicated is 625 square feet for the mass gaming commission and IE be to have offices direct on property, and about 425 square foot operation for the state police to be housed. We have a convenience room supervisor office and a facility to secure to secure any from inside there. All back of the house will be card access only. And those things will have tiered levels to meet all requirements with with the gaming commission. We're going to enter the building. You can see the pink area. That's our kitchen and we also have a front counter service to walk up service where people can come walk up and get some food and non alcoholic beverages if they'd like. But every seating arrangement inside our front facing public area is going to be served. So they do not have to go walk up to to get food they can just sit down and have a server come up, take their order and get their food and drink. So we have another dining auction off to the north east of that building. It's a restaurant that we're going to put in there it's, it's pretty segregated off we wanted that it is going to be a different dining auction higher end food. We're looking at possibly doing this ourselves. The county family has operated restaurants at the dog track for the last 50 years. So you're also entertaining, you know, bringing in an outside vendor to run that restaurant as well. So when you when you go do west of this plan into the green shaded area. We have a commas area with two loading docks up in the northwest of that plan. Which is the southern most bay. That will be for our car service. It's a secured bay that will come in. The doors will shut and that's where the armoured car service will come in. When we know that the route is going to be active, there'll be no deliveries allowed. So no commissary deliveries will be allowed that will just be for the armoured service. And just at the next room down through the hall is the vault room in the money room for Caesars. So it is a short track for the armoured service along with the state police to make sure that monies are secured in and out in a secure fashion. So as you can see, we also built out a temporary facility at our current location. We did this for a couple reasons. We didn't know when we'd be able to open a new facility, and we would like to get open as soon as possible. For many reasons, one for training purposes to, you know, to not miss out on any revenue opportunities, but we made a pretty big capital investment at our current property in a separate location from the simulcast polar. And I understand that the commission is we're able to view that it is. It's got it could possibly contain up to five bedding windows, as you can see, 10 self service kiosk. It will allow us to begin hiring right away if we can open temporarily, and we'll be able to see this will will hire 12 employees will be able to hire close to 40 on the surveillance and security side right away. And we look forward to that opportunity at that location. As you can see the floor plan here for that temporary spot. It's own entrance off of the parking lot separate from the simulcast facility. It allows a patient to come up into the main entry be created right away by our security staff for our ID checks. And then it allows you then to go plan east into the facility. We would walk in right into one open bar. You can see LED video screens 10 self service kiosk and five bedding windows. As you can see here depicted here. It also allows from our simulcast. It allows from our simulcast power allows entry from the simulcast into this. It allows us to open all doors up in the northwest corner, but it keeps it separate so our simulcast collar can currently run the way it runs in our sports book if we're able to open temporarily here would be a 21 and older only entry here. Appreciate your time. Madam chair and commissioners and staff. And right now we'll turn it back to Jeff. Yep. No, I appreciate it. So this is a part of our presentation. I am going to turn it over to the folks at Caesar's to talk a little bit about their experience and expertise which we are acquiring through our operating lease agreement as a partner in connection with the operation of the sports book and I'm not sure if I'm turning that back over to you, Eric, but I'll let you introduce your team here to talk a little bit more about that. Yes, great. Thanks. I am going to kick it off. And again, I appreciate the time and it's, it's a pleasure to be back in front of you again if we could go to the next slide. Previously, when we presented in front of you was all focused on the digital side of the business. And so that while there is some overlap and you'll see that from a tech perspective in the infrastructure side we of course wanted to highlight our retail business because that's what this operation is going to be focused on through American wagering which is a subsidiary of Caesar's entertainment. We are the largest retail sports book operation by a large margin in the United States. We operate approximately 190 sports books across 25 different jurisdictions and entirely including mobile we're in 29 jurisdictions so the vast majority of the jurisdictions where we operate mobile we also operate retail establishments. In some states like Nevada, it's very significant in terms of the quantities and then in other states it's one or two operations, which will be like this operation Massachusetts should we be licensed and afforded the ability to do so. Similar to the digital side we own and operate the vast majority of our technology, our strategy is to continue to evolve into 100% ownership of all the technology, because it'll allow us to prioritize resources and ensure that we are reacting to market demands customer demands and regulatory demands as quickly as possible. In terms of the scope of the operation, we have approximately 1800 people in our sports betting vertical. We provide all kinds of services to that vertical and as I mentioned their vast majority are internal. We have services like all the technology, the marketing, the trading risk management, we have a customer service department compliance financial reporting and of course responsible gaming and all those operations work seamlessly across both the retail and the digital verticals depending on the applicability in the state. So as far as our review, I'll turn it over to Floyd Baroga, who will walk you through some of the specifics of our tech package, Floyd. Thanks Eric. I'm Floyd Baroga vice president of product compliance for scissors. So as far as, you know, the regulatory compliance for us, our Liberty retail platform that we're going to provide to arena park. We have a number of channels as far as certification approval and releasing certain markets. So our Liberty platform operates provides a operational supporting systems as far as our back office goes. Our back office is already live within the state of Massachusetts as far as the digital the mobile app component and the website. So that that back of us offers any engine support as far as all your pricing all your odds, the ability for scissors to support arena park as far as any customer service regarding the kiosk the pause on as well as, you know, other operational support that we provide that licensee also incorporates any money laundering so you know with along with our digital and mobile platform, you know we put that team provides support to arena park as far as any money laundering that could occur across whether it's mobile or digital. Also because we're live within Massachusetts right now we're utilizing the data centers that you know that are going to be incorporated across both platforms so all of the security protocols, the bulletproof security audits will be incorporated into that system as well. So that level of security that goes across, you know, all of Caesar's markets will be incorporated in Massachusetts, including right now. And then also, as far as development, we have hundreds of engineers that support this platform, and, you know, a number of items as far as responsible gaming self exclusion that, you know, other regulators adopt that full suite of features that will be incorporated within Massachusetts so that not only your requirements are incorporated, but also depending on the testing and GLI certification those features would be incorporated there. And then as far as change management goes product compliance. Our team will provide that those submissions to the right to the Massachusetts gaming commission as far as understanding after the initial approval of the platform. Any changes will be incorporated into that system and then approved by your Tesla. Let's see. And then as I mentioned, you know, like, as far as kiosk and point of sales units right Caesar's as Eric mentioned we're, we're live in a number of different sports books around the world. And, you know, the experience that we provide correlate to the quality that we're going to provide that arena park, as well as those features that are outlined within the presentation. So, I'm available to join if there's any questions from the commission. But, you know, right now I'd like to hand it off to confused. Commission. Any questions so far. Okay. Thanks. Good morning, Madam chair commissioners and staff. My name is Kenny Bukes. Good to see you again. I am the CEO of Caesar's digital myself and David Grollman who's the head of retail operations will touch on our platform and our retail integration here in the state. Floyd mentioned our platform for retail is very similar to our mobile platform is proprietary using a lot of the same component tree and capabilities with dedicated teams, specifically for a retail product so that we have constant improvement with releases on a weekly basis so we can be responsive to our customers and stakeholders consistently. We are currently is quite mentioned we're currently operating or provide services for retail 25 plus North American jurisdictions over 20 which have this Liberty platform with several several additional ones on track to migrate shortly to it as well. It's really composed of two different types of retail products there is a kiosk for basically self wagering self sufficient wagering, and then the electronic point of sale which is used by our ticket writers. We currently plan to have I believe 16 point of sale locations and 31 kiosk, as well as a two lottery spots and in this facility. Like our mobile app, it includes a betting engine, a trading platform transaction capabilities, the not player account management system per se platform capabilities, kind of all the DevOps, and then the front end experience for the customer as well. It's really a transact. One of the things I think is unique about our retail capabilities is that you can card in as a customer for Caesar's rewards, so that we actually can see you across both mobile and digital, and it serves as a hub for responsible gaming, as well as some marketing capabilities, which is a nice unifying way to holistically understand our customers across all our products and across our company. As I mentioned, we have a dedicated team that works on retail offering, although they coordinate very closely with our mobile team and all of our other technical teams, so that we're always working in step in terms of what we're offering and our release schedule and everything else. When you look at the kiosks themselves they have two screens they've got one for trading which are all the markets, and then it has a top screen which is more for marketing messages and responsible gaming messages and information which Dave will take you through as well. If we flip sides, just to touch on the trading organization. So our trading organization for retail is the same trading organization that we talked to you about for mobile, it's the same team. It's about 170 employees. And in their job is really to both manage our pricing manage our markets, have oversight of everything that is being offered in the Commonwealth, as well as to manage our players and manage all the wager acceptance. The team works 24 seven. We have centers of excellence in Las Vegas and a team in Leeds which provides us overnight and international experience and subject matter expertise. We offer both live pre match and in play both the mobile and for and for retail. And then we have teams that also look watch settlement they manage customers they work closely with our customer support team and provide analytics. We offer millions of market offerings on both platforms, and are continually managing a real time book of liabilities and making constant adjustments. I think one of our advantages in the market is having this dedicated team, both from an oversight perspective but also again to be responsive to customers on a 24 seven basis. Along with our trading team, we do have also a full customer support team so they are also available to answer via chat via phone calls via text, or via email, any customer questions that come in, whether from retail or from, or from mobile. And in addition they also can support the ticket writers and the people on staff at the retail establishment should they have any questions, any given time as well. If you want to flip the slide. From a market standpoint, just like mobile is a very similar platform. In terms of what we offer almost exact actually both pre match and play futures markets we offer straight wagers parlays same game parlays player props game props and other derivative markets across every major and many secondary sports. You can see some of them listed here. And these are just two examples of what the kiosk looks like has a very similar aesthetic to our mobile app in terms of design UX, obviously it's a much larger screen so you can display more information. We're able to use our relationships with the NBA and the NHL and NFL and MLB to leverage their IP you can see here the team logos for example to make it very clear for the customer who they're betting on and what they're betting on. And again this is continual improvement for us every single week we are, we are adding new features new capabilities looking at design, we do a lot of user testing, specifically so we understand how customers interact with the screen so we continually make it as easy and as possible, so that there's no confusion and for customers very clear exactly what they're betting on, and what our offerings are at a given moment. And of course we can integrate things like Jesus rewards and RG messaging, as well around the screens. With that I'm going to turn it over to David Groom you can talk about how we integrate promotions, both digitally but also on the ground. David, we're going to lose him. David you're on mute. Excellent on my phone too, can you. No, we can hear you and. Yeah, there was an echo. Mr. Goldman I started on mute early on so good morning. Yeah, I want to make sure there's not. Here, can you all hear me. Great, thank you very much for the time today. What you see here is some of the on site advertising that we do in promotions. And what we do is we're trying to sign folks up for the mobile app in addition to way during retail, and also drive customers to sign up for seizures rewards, not just for that the rewards that they receive, but it also helps us track players better.  There's another slide on that. What I will add that that the Ken didn't mention is we already have a manager, Kenny Waymo. The book, he's actually worked for us for three years at other locations. And he's overseen by gentlemen and Bill Wentz, who has extensive racing experience he's run our book at mom park for five years. So it's a very seasoned team that will be working with the folks at random. And I'm not sure. Ken, did you want to see some George. Thanks, David, I think I was going to handle this one so appreciate it. So, you know, as as you heard throughout the previous presentation, one of the really important aspects of our efforts across all of our books and across all the states and platforms is the Caesar's rewards program. It is the industry leading program. We have over 65 million people that have signed up over the history of the program, including the folks that have signed up since we launched the mobile program and Massachusetts. We believe that by having this program, it as Dave reference allows us to better understand the customer, because we'll be able to understand their play, not only on the retail side but on the digital side, and not only in the state of Massachusetts but also across different states where the customers commute or whether they go to Las Vegas or Atlantic City or one of our other locations for a vacation or a holiday. We try to make the program very appealing to folks that either do go to destination locations and also for customers that don't, because there is a distinct, you know, difference in preference in terms of what they value out of their program. So we try to make it very appealing to across all groups of customers. It's a tiered program where customers earn credits based on their wagers and as they move up the program, the number of benefits that they can get and the capability of those benefits across different locations grows. And so to Dave Grohlman's point, a customer that comes into the retail location but also likes to wager at home will get rewarded for both their play at the retail location and their play at home. And so we think that's a very good benefit for the customer. And it also allows us to make sure that we understand the full range of their play. So I'll pause there and see if there are any questions on that. I think that both commissioners and I are going to hold our questions as we go through the application. So, so we don't disrupt the flow. Thank you. Great. Then I'll turn it over to back over to random on the for the economics. We appreciate the presentation. And, you know, again, when random part selected Caesar's sportsbook as their partner they selected a group that had experience operating, you know, nationwide in retail environment similar to what we want to create at including at other racing facilities. As this process has evolved, we now have a partner who is licensed and operating in Massachusetts, obviously in connection with a mobile offering, but considering a lot of the crossover when it comes to the types of offerings, the rules, the requirements that the commission is set in place. We feel really fortunate and that's going to be a great advantage, certainly to be able to get the facility up and running as soon as we get through the licensing process. So, again, a good partner national experience and now even more enhanced through their licensing and successful launch in Massachusetts on the mobile side. So we're going to turn now to some of the economic impacts of the development. A few of these already but we want to highlight some of the things that we think is going to be to benefit benefit not only the region but also to the Commonwealth. The greater economic impact of the project obviously surrounds the construction in including as Mr Brooks indicated the redevelopment of the 90 plus acres of the particular site. This is going to be the only sports betting venue in the southeast region in Massachusetts. You can see here some of the statistics around what we think it's going to be able to draw from a population base. It's going to be into to the major metropolitan areas in and around random park, obviously, including Boston and Providence and Worcester. And as Mr Brooks indicated to and we'll talk a little bit more in detail about the other major component here is going to be the creation of new jobs, and probably more than a sports way during applicant random park is going to add a number of jobs and it expects to hire I believe over 130 individuals to add to its team. And hopefully with the success will be able to build on that that's just to get us up and running once the permanent facility is completed and fully licensed. Another aspect and certainly I think this got picked up in connection with our discussions and about the operating agreement. We really think there's a great opportunity with Caesar's eventually taking over the operation of the simulcasts responsibilities to integrate and cross sell that option for people we really think that introducing and mixing the sports betting crowd with or sports way during crowd with the simulcast crowd will create opportunities and growth potentially in both areas and we won't really look at this as not only a new opportunity for sports way during at random park but also it's going to be a great sort of shot in the arm I think for the simulcast business as well. And as you know, and as part of our proposal here is to really integrate that and have it operated all and offered all but the same kiosks and same windows, once the permanent facility gets up and running, just as a reminder for purposes of the temporary space those things will completely still remain separate. And as Mr Brooks indicated before we look at this facility as something that's going to be a real attraction well beyond sports betting it's going to be a facility that's going to be able to partner or excuse me be able to host private events, corporate gathering social events reunions bachelor parties, bachelorette parties, what have you, as well, and having a full service restaurant offering, again, is going to be something that's that's going to be great for that particular area. And the random park is looking for and engaged in discussions around new partnerships with local venues, obviously it's vicinity the Xfinity Center, and we're really looking towards being the city of Brockton and Taunton for any opportunities and obviously Campanelli stadium, something that is very important to integrate into random parks efforts and marketing going forward as well. We've had different types of transportation options and partnerships as well, including efforts to bring actually public transportation by the site, which has a real dual purpose input, providing opportunities for people to get there for entertainment, but also we think that's going to be an important part of being able to draw from the communities for employment purposes as well in those discussions are ongoing. And on this front, we really have a great story I think to tell about the partnership with the mass lottery, and something that I've learned throughout the process in connection with this application to learning more about random park is I believe it, it has been the number one lottery retailer in the past. And we think through this partnership we'd like to be able to try to get back to that level. And what you're going to see here at random park is a full partnership with the lottery, and all of their offerings including their vending machines, including other game terminals to purchase, you know, your mega millions and whatnot tickets as well so that's something that that we're really excited about. And I think we're going to really have again one of the most robust partnerships with the lottery and something that really builds on builds on a great historic relationship as well. So that I'm going to turn it over to Sue, and she's going to talk a little bit more about responsible game. Thank you, Jen. Thank you madam chair and commissioners for hearing us today. Rain and Park is committed to ensuring the safe and responsible responsible way during of all patrons. Our coordinated efforts with Caesar sports book will ensure well established safeguards. As identified in the responsible gaming framework, we will implement responsible gaming strategies to include these key components, a commitment to corporate social play, supporting positive play, promoting public health and community within our physical environment, ensuring responsible marketing, managing high risk financial transactions, engaging the community and committing to continuous improvement and reporting. Rain and Park has drafted a comprehensive responsible gaming plan, which will be implemented by the creation of a responsible gaming committee. The planning plan will reflect the strategies of the responsible gaming framework and detailed practices and procedures for effective implementation, including but not limited to minimizing the effects of gambling harm on individuals, families and communities, including best and promising responsible practices in all aspects of sports wagering activities and utilizing principles of responsible gaming in introducing all new and emerging technologies. An essential piece of our responsible gaming plan is to restrict entrance to our facility to those 21 years of age and older. We will be prepared and will implement the Veradox system, which is an identification scanning system to support our efforts efforts in this measure. We will align with the Caesar's think 30 policy, if a customer looks under 30 years of age, they will be required to provide valid identification in order to be scanned through Veradox in order to enter the facility. Rain and Park will ensure responsible marketing by utilizing media where the target audience is 21 years of age and older and include a responsible wagering message and toll free helpline number. Excellent. These responsible gaming strategies will be addressed specifically through our partnership partnership with Game Sense, and the adoption of the Game Sense model. We have provided a dedicated space at our new facility where we welcome the presence of Game Sense advisors, as well as a plan to have educational literature, visible and available throughout the property. Through Game Sense, we can support positive play by having the information available to make positive decisions and offer information about problem gambling and options for help. Our employees have participated in Game Sense training in the past, and we will continue these trainings on an ongoing basis, as we increase our workforce. The trainings will be inclusive all departments fostering a strong understanding of responsible gaming, and how to identify and address problem gambling. Our commitment to, to responsible gaming is genuine. Through Game Sense, Rain and Park will continue to collaborate with the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, the Massachusetts Council on Gaming and Health, the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling, Massachusetts partnership on responsible gambling. And of course our partnership with Caesars with their very robust responsible gaming plan. I would like to turn it over to Jeff Hendricks with Caesars to expand upon the plans for responsible gaming at Rain and Park. I truly thank you for your time today. Good morning, Chair, commissioners, Jeff Hendricks, Assistant General Counsel for Caesars.  What we want to discuss is just the foundational nature of responsible gaming to Caesars entertainment and that we've partnered with Rain and Park. We've been really pleased to see that Caesars commitment to responsible gaming has also been reflected in Rain and Park's commitment as they just discussed about the dedicated space that will be available on site and various training efforts that they are undergoing or provide responsible gaming resources to the team members and customers that would attend the facility if we're able to achieve a license today. What I would want to note is some topics that we have noted before you before is that a program responsible gambling is part of our culture at Caesars. And as our company has grown, we've always made sure that that commitment is at the forefront of all of our efforts as we emerge into new jurisdictions and work with local partners including the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, Game Sense and all of our constituents within Massachusetts to ensure that we're providing a safe and responsible gaming environment for all of our customers. And as we move forward, we will continue to do so with our Rain and Park partners and all of our local options as we work to move this retail book further. Next slide please. Rain and Park discussed some of their elements of their responsible gaming program. What I would also echo is that Caesars has and maintains an industry-leading responsible gaming program designed to protect our customers from the potential dangers of problem gambling and educate our consumers and employees on our commitment to responsible gaming. So in doing so, what we want to do is make sure that while we understand it's a small portion of our customers who may have a problem with gambling, that the entire workforce and enterprise of Caesars is committed to making sure resources are available to any customers who may have such issues. Within our digital platform, we have several options to help our customers including offering limit settings, cool off capabilities, and as I hope you've seen through our advertisements within the Commonwealth, we strive to clearly conspicuously note responsible gaming help lines that are available to individuals who may have a problem or may simply have a question that they want to send to a third party resource. Additionally, we provide annual mandatory training for a great deal of our team members. And we participate in industry-wide responsible gaming awareness events such as a problem gambling awareness month and events sponsored by other events sponsored by the National Council of Problem Gambling. And as we noted earlier, we ensure that all of our advertisements include the appropriate disclaimer message and a responsible gaming help line number that our customers can reach toll free 24 hours a day. Next slide, please. Additionally, I want to note that at the corporate level, we continue to improve and expand upon our responsible gaming program. Earlier this year, we were pleased to announce that we've expanded our company's universal exclusion program to apply to all jurisdictions within the portfolio, including our digital jurisdictions. So now if a guest self excludes in any jurisdiction which Caesar's operates, both the brick and mortar side or the digital side, they are now excluded across all of our products across the country. So if a guest excludes him or herself on the Massachusetts exclusion list, they would also be prevented from playing at our properties in Nevada or elsewhere across the country. And so within the responsible gaming policy that you see in front of you, you see kind of discussion of the efforts that we have taken as a company to assure that we are both providing everything in compliance with our local state requirements and also going above and beyond to continue to provide the best and safest environment for our customers possible. Additionally, our approach to responsible gaming applies to all of our sponsorship arrangements, including sponsorships with universities. We had several discussions with the Commission in our previous hearing. What I simply want to note is our continued commitment to everything that we stated in our previous meetings, and that we continue to apply our marketing and advertising code to ensure that all of our Caesar material are marketed appropriately only to those over the age to properly participate within our product and that we are always doing so in a spirit of good taste and in a way that best represents the company and the jurisdictions in which we operate. Additionally, we do not utilize direct any sort of marketing material individuals under the age of 21, and all of these commitments will continue to move forward with us as we look to partner with Rainham Park. Thanks Jeff. Again, members of the Commission, I think we, Rainham Park is a great advantage here partnering with a company not only that has robust responsible gaming that permeates throughout its, its company, but also one that actually now has been in Massachusetts, understands the Massachusetts rules. And as indicated throughout the presentation will have. We are hiring to help us certainly with things like advertising, and it's a great advantage not to bring in somebody cold, but rather somebody who's actually been operating in compliance in Massachusetts. As Rainham Park's partner, and again it's a, it's a benefit and we think that that's something that's really going to be incredibly efficient for the Commission, incredibly important to Rainham Park in getting the facility up and running. So with that, we're going to turn to diversity, equity and inclusion, and we're going to go back to Sue Roberts. With the acquisition of sports wagering Rainham Park will be entering a new chapter. This includes an expanded workforce. Currently Rainham Park has 72 employees of which 30 are full time and 42 are part time. Women comprise 43% of the workforce, and a number of management positions are currently held by women, including our human resource manager, kitchen manager, money room manager, and myself as vice president of operations. We have been very fortunate to retain a very loyal base of employees. Some of these employees have been with us for over 50 years and 50% for over 20 years. 75% of our workforce is aged 55 and older. Approximately 6% of our employees are minority. We anticipate at minimum doubling our staff with the creation of new positions and extended hours. Since our goal is to create a workplace in venue that promotes and embraces equity and respect, we have hired an HR consultant to assist us in creating new employee handbooks, policies and procedures, and implementation of new equal opportunity and anti harassment policy, along with effective employee trainings, promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. As diversity will be an integral part of Rainham Park's growth with sports wagering, we have met with the diversity consultant's emblem strategic and in order business. They're expert advisors with a special emphasis on diversity and dedicated to business strategy for an inclusive world. With their guidance as part of our project plan submission required under 205 CMR 222, an affirmative action program for construction jobs and for contracting with minority women or veteran owned businesses will be included. Rainham Park will develop a strategy in consultation with the commission for hiring minorities, women and veterans, and for the use of minority women and veteran business enterprises as vendors as we move toward growing our supplier diversity. Based on the experience of emblem strategic and in order business with others in the gaming industry, we are confident that they will provide us with the education and resources needed to not only comply with the regulations, but to be successful in our ongoing efforts. The location of Rainham Park being adjacent to two large, very large diverse cities, Brockton and Taunton will enable us to attract a diverse number of candidates for anticipated positions. And as required under 205 CMR 239, we will track and report statistics. With our focus on diversity, equity and inclusion, we will build on partnerships with DE and I groups and participate in events to cultivate relationships and demonstrate our commitment. We have a solid plan. We have a strong vision. And at this point I'd like to turn it over to Heather wrap with Caesars to elaborate on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. And Madam Chair commissioners and staff, it's a pleasure to be here with you again this morning. I apologize for some reason my camera. There we go I think I got it is not working properly I hope. We see you. Okay. As Caesar's entertainment we are committed to being a responsible corporate citizen and an environmental steward and really all of our DEI efforts sit within our CSR strategy. In 2000 we published our first code of commitment as a pledge to our guests, our team members, communities, business partners and all those that we reach through our business operations. Our people planet play corporate social responsibility approach was really created from our code of commitment. And today the code aligns very well with our ESG priorities again our diversity equity inclusion efforts included. We really focus to bring our code of commitment to life through our mission, our vision and our values. As you can see on screen our code of commitment states under people we commit to support the well being of our team members guests and local communities. Planet we commit to taking care of the world we all call home and play as you've heard we commit to creating memorable experiences for our guests and leading the industry as a responsible business, including our industry responsible gaming practices. There are many benefits to creating an inclusive workplace that is respectful of all individuals and truly embraces the differences that every individual embodies. Such an environment helps us drive innovation helps us understand and serve the diverse needs of our customers, our markets, our team members, and helps attract team members from the widest possible pool of candidates. An inclusive equitable workplace fosters harmonious work relationships and collaboration and also reinforces a culture in which everyone can be their authentic selves and contribute with their unique experience. Our work in DEI really centers around the five pillars you see outlined below team members we are focused on hiring retaining and promoting diverse team members, further enhancing diversity equity and inclusion within the workplace. Our guest tailored offerings for diverse guests convention meeting partners and with an emphasis on meeting those different market needs. Within the communities are volunteer initiatives charitable contributions are nonprofit partnerships and social programs with diverse community groups. Suppliers, as Sue mentioned diversity and procurement and advancing diverse suppliers and contractors, and lastly advocacy with an ongoing engagement to raise awareness, change perceptions and influence public policy. One of the many ways we work to strengthen diversity equity and inclusion across our company includes our, our public DEI commitment which we refer to as 5050 by 2025. You can see an outline here which I'll touch on just briefly. This commitment focuses on achieving 50% female leadership in roles in both our mid level which we consider to be supervisor and manager, and our senior leadership roles which are considered director plus. As you can see our performance in 2022, we're at 45% of mid level leadership roles are held by women, 30% of senior leadership roles are held by women. The second piece of that goal includes 50% leadership roles will be held by people of color again for clarification leadership is considered supervisor plus as a whole. And then the second piece of that is that we commit to increasing the representation of people of color in senior leadership by 50%. Again, I've shared with you the performance as of the end of 2022 43% of leadership roles were held by people are held by people of color. And we've actually exceeded the second piece of that goal we have increased the representation of people of color in senior leadership roles by 106%. So efforts we are very proud of but definitely efforts that continue to be ongoing in our everyday environment. With that I'll turn it back over to the random team. Thank you. Appreciate it. I'm going to turn now to suitability understand really touching on part of this today but certainly this will be relevant to the Commission's overall review and really sort of stress the history of compliance with MGA. It's been a regulated entity for over 50 years. It's been regulated by the Commission since 2012. Mr. Carney George Carney has been previously found suitable in connection with his application for a casino license back in 2015. One piece that the Commission hasn't seen and isn't part of the application but will become more evident as we get into review of things for an operation certificate is really what's been done to transform MGA and add significant compliance functions. And these are obviously things that are required under the Commission's internal control regulations, but we've been working earnestly in to implement them, including a new compliance committee that will have an independent member, a new independent audit committee that is going to be populated for CPAs. We have, we've introduced here today our new chief compliance officer, Ken Regan, new head of security, Mr. Wardell, and of course I do have surveillance, Mr. Machino. We understand RSW and we've reviewed their report. We're happy to answer any questions regarding the financial suitability for Rainham Park as we get into that aspect of the review of the application. We just note again, this has been a family owned business for almost 60 years. We are changing certain aspects of the way that business has been run in order to bring it in compliance with the Commission's regulations and internal controls. But overall I've described the financial suitability as having a positive network balance sheet. And again, this is another place where the lease agreement between Rainham Park and Caesars is also important. It's structured in a way that certainly shares and mitigates operating risk. In fact, and then brings in an operating partner who's very experienced and who's has a demonstrated track record of success. And while nothing is certain in connection with being profitable in the sports way during space, we do feel that we've been incredibly responsible to bring in a partner that gives us the best chance in order to do that in order to earn revenue for the Commonwealth as well. Just a couple other things to highlight. Obviously, we have not, we have been working with Commission staff in connection with many different elements that will be necessary in order for the ultimately for Massachusetts to engage in sports wagering. And that includes extensive work on internal controls and partnership with Caesars. And of course on the Rainham Park end, we've developed our surveillance plan, we've developed our security plan. We are fortunate to have a partner who has many aspects of regulatory requirements up and operating in Massachusetts. And we've been building out the additional documents that we're going to be needed in order to commence operations, including, as Sue mentioned, the responsible gaming plan, the Mass DOR intercept, and of course, Mr Brooks highlighted all the effort that has gone into developing the temporary space in order for it to meet the Commission's regulatory requirements. So with that, we certainly are going to be available for questions from from the Commission as we move through this process but that ends the formal part of our presentation. I appreciate the Commission's time and certainly we've appreciated all the staff's interaction over the last several months in order to get us to the place that we are today. And we look forward to continuing in this process. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Attorney Nozel. Thank you, Mr Nozel. When we started your item three, I had turned to Mr Carney, and he made some introductory remarks and I know kind of cut him up a little bit because I wanted him to hear the whole presentation and have him be able to give some closing remarks that he so wishes and if you, if you would allow him that opportunity. Chair, we may do that at the end of the day. Mr. Carney's in the room next door now and we're happy to bring it back for questions and I thought it would be nice for him to be able to kind of close us out. Well, that's why I sort of thought he might want to do that here, but that makes great sense. He'll close out at the conclusion of our questions and again, Mr. Carney, thank you for your opening remarks. All right, Commissioners, I think that in the past we decided that this is a good time to take a short break. It's 10 of 12, and when we return, we're going to be turning to GLRI, IEB, and then RSM, and then we'll go through our section by section analysis. So, for those who are watching, I think we'll return around right at noon. That makes sense, Commissioners. Gives us about a 12 minute break. All right. Thank you, everyone, and we appreciate the presentation very much. I think we're all set now, Dave. Okay, I'll set. Thank you. Hey, David, it's Jeff. I just want to check my audience. Okay. Yep, I'll come in through. Good on my end. And we are still screaming. I understand correctly. Yes. Thanks, Dave. I just want to make sure. My fellow commissioners are. Back. We've got. Are you all set? Attorney Nozzle. Yes, chair also. Okay. So, because we are holding this meeting, public meeting of the gaming commission virtually. We'll do a roll call. Good afternoon, Commissioner. Good afternoon. I'm here. Good afternoon, Commissioner Hill. Good afternoon. I'm here. Good afternoon, Commissioner Skinner. Good afternoon. And good afternoon, Commissioner Maynard. Good afternoon. Okay. And again, I want to thank. Park for its presentation. Third presentation for all of you who participated. Very helpful and a great. Captured your application. Very, very well. Thank you. We're going to now turn to item number four. I want to point out to that. The application was submitted. On January 12th. My notes are correct. Attorney Nozzle. And then because it was a category two. Application. And it had not met our early date. So, I just wanted to note that. I just wanted to note that. And there was a coordination that we would be delayed. Somewhat on. On reviewing the application. I just want to note that because I believe. Since January, as we go through the application, perhaps. There may be some. Items that. Could our need to almost be updated. So I just wanted to note that to you. I just wanted to make sure that. I just wanted to make sure that. There may be some. Evolutions have occurred and we'll just address those as we go along. Does that make sense? We're happy to do that. And certainly if we need to follow up with anything. We tried to highlight a few places. I think where we did. Yeah. Because of time. We're in a little bit different spot. And we've also been providing periodic updates to the IEB of some of the underlying information that supports the application. We'll just go through some of the information. And then we'll just answer all of the questions. And then we'll go ahead and start to do the process as well. Right. And I just wanted to note that. And that's absolutely fair. And I know to those during your presentation. So thank you. And I'm sure my fellow commissioners did the same. All right. So now we're going to turn to. Our. Experts who have helped us on both the technical components and Gaming Laboratories International was the first to write and produce standards which are now considered to be the industry benchmark. GLI has continuously responded to the industry by innovating new standards and testing, allowing regulators to feel confident that they are providing a safe responsible method of revenue generation for their stakeholders and the preservation of integrity. GLI's network of labs provide a consistency of experience across jurisdictions and platforms, helping to bridge the divide between innovation and compliance. And I understand you have Joe Benelith on today. Good morning, Madam Chair. Good to see you again, Joe. And I understand your colleague Mark Robertson is also here, so thank you. That is correct. So this morning for the technical components presentation, I'd like to introduce you to Mark Robertson, senior gaming technical advisor for GLI, who is new to the GLI regulatory affairs team but has over 18 years experience in gaming technologies at GLI. Mark? Thank you for having us, Madam Chair and the commission. My name is Mark Robertson, senior gaming technology advisor for GLI. I will give an overview of the submittal, certification and verification processes regarding retail platforms and other sports wagering equipment as approved by the commission. The operator will prepare to submit their code base for the sports wagering system they intend to deploy. This middle preparation includes the follow-up. If it is a platform we are familiar with and modification lists from the last submission to one or more US jurisdictions will be requested and reviewed as part of the project plan for Massachusetts, considering any changes to the platform and all specific Massachusetts rules and regulations. If the product is new to the lab, we will review the technology architecture documentation which is a complete, comprehensive and technically accurate description and explanation of the sports wagering systems. This includes a description of all hardware devices and virtual servers. A description of all server and client software modules including software versions. The layout of all network communications between the various software and hardware modules. An explanation of all third party integrated systems. Post the technical documentation review, the critical files regarding compliance will be identified and documented. Then a complete project plan will be put in place considering the platform's unique architecture and the design and the specific Massachusetts gaming commission rules and regulations. The lab will run a supervised compilation of the source code, signature of those files and the compilation steps and signatures of the compiled code. Once complete, the source code can be submitted for testing in a locked down environment. GLI will verify the sports book in total for events, markets, point spreads, bed acceptance and corresponding timestamps and logging. Verify the enforcement of bed limits and all edge cases. Verify the pre-event and live data feeds, post-event bed settling and corresponding timestamps and all logging and reporting. We will review the change management processes and procedures. After the technical check-offs are met, certifications can be issued when GLI verifies the changes were made for Massachusetts specific deployments, including source code differential and change testing from the last reviewed version. And GLI has evaluated the product has met all the Massachusetts specific requirements. After certifications are issued and the Massachusetts gaming commission accepts them, field verification can be conducted in conjunction with the Massachusetts gaming commission. Verification at the production server verify critical file signatures. Review the internal control procedures to operate the book, check technology for configurations such as proper setup of roles and user rights assignments and potentially interview key personnel to ensure they know and will follow the procedures from the internal controls. At this point, they will have met the technical requirements for the operation of a sports book in the commonwealth. And that completes our presentation, Madam Chair. Thank you. Joan, Mark, questions for GLI commissioners. I'll ask the general question, Joe. I think you understand that the operator of the sports book would be Caesars. And am I right that you, that GLI has familiarity with Caesars? That is correct. There as Floyd referenced earlier, the Liberty platform is the name of it as in the lab and went through the lab for the mobile applications. And this is the same actual platform that supports their retail systems. Yes. Thank you. Any follow-up commissioners? Okay. Thank you. And it's nice to see you. Always nice to see you. Thank you for having confidence in us. Thank you. Okay. Next, we're gonna turn to preliminary financial suitability of the applicant and we'll turn to Director Lillio, our director of the IEB investigations and enforcement bureau. And Monica Chang, who is the chief financial investigators division and RSM US LLP. And I'll introduce RSM when appropriate. Thank you, Director Lillios. Hi. Good afternoon, Chair. Good afternoon commissioners. Chair, as you and as general counsel Grossman and attorney nozzle have already set the stage for the IEB's presentation today, but today the IEB will be presenting the results of our preliminary financial suitability of the applicant. A review of preliminary general suitability will be scheduled for an upcoming date. For today, the team from RSM performed the preliminary financial review in accordance with procedures and regulations that general counsel Grossman referenced and recited at the beginning of the meeting. The team from RSM worked under the supervision of Monica Chang, as you mentioned the chief of our financial investigations division here in the IEB. I believe that, I know that several folks from RSM are on the call. I believe that Connor Laughlin from RSM will be taking the lead for today's financial preliminary suitability review. I do want to flag that in executive session may be warranted for a portion of this presentation. I'd rely on a general counsel Grossman and attorney Nozzle to flag that further. And... Before we turn to RSM, can I just want to acknowledge Chichang. Is there anything that you wish to add, Monica? Hi, Chair, hi, can you show us? Nothing for me. Okay, so I want to properly introduce RSM. It's been a bit and it's nice to see Theresa and Connor. Thank you so much and thank you to those who are joining from RSM, RSM US LLP. It's one of the leading providers of tax and audit analysis. It's consultation on the business, industry and market conditions that affect them. Middle market, health drive, confident business decisions. RSM has been asked to focus on applicants, estimated market share within each jurisdiction, insights into all aspects of the applicants, projected revenue and to advise on all aspects of the applicant's financial stability and integrity. To the extent and as Director Lilios has mentioned, I want to reiterate to the extent any of RSM's analysis, just as we've done in the past, address issues that the applicant believes is confidential or subject to a competitive disadvantage. There may be an option for an executive session pending our legal counsel's review and advice and the commission's vote. So thank you and again, good to see you, Connor. Thank you. So if we can't see you, Mr. Laughlin, which is interesting, is anybody else having trouble hearing or is it just me? I'm not hearing anything either. Okay, thank you, I'm sure you'll never know. Theresa Merlino's here. Can you all hear me? We can hear you. Okay, great. I can stand in and tell Connor. Hi, can everybody here be sorry? Yeah, and it's never a problem. We are very patient.  Maybe there's a combination. Maybe there's a. I can see him now. It looks like he's on mute, but it looks like he just got off. Hi, everyone. Can you hear me now? Perfect, great. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry for that. As I was being introduced, I had started facing some difficulty. No problem whatsoever. Thank you. Well, thank you, Madam Chair. And to kick it off with RSM appreciates this opportunity to present to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. We understand the importance of this licensing process and the importance of these meetings. As Chairwoman Judstine indicated, the RSM team has been asked to join this meeting and make a presentation related to certain aspects of the application. Please note RSM is not presenting on all aspects, all aspects of the application. Specifically, RSM has been asked to provide insight based on our experience and research into the following specific application sections. The description of the applicant's sports wage and operation, their projected Massachusetts revenue, and the applicant's financial stability to operate the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We will also provide any general observations that we believe may benefit the Commission in the review of the applicant. The three areas RSM will speak to today include an overview of the retail sports betting market in Massachusetts and the United States, an analysis of the applicant's current liquidity position and construction plans, and then finally an analysis of the applicant's projected gross gaming revenue, whole percentage in market share. We will reserve sections two and three for a non-public executive session. Like our earlier presentations for the category three, online sports wagering applicants, we will begin by providing sufficient insight into what third-party equity analysts that cover the sports wagering industry are estimating for retail market size and whole percentage. The following slides will provide an overview of the source information RSM utilized to testing the reasonableness of the applicant's projections. For today's meeting, we have compared the total retail applicant's pools market size to how equity researchers are estimating the current Massachusetts addressable market in terms of retail sports wagering gross gaming revenue. As illustrated on the slide, the blue bars represent the estimated gross gaming revenue or GGR for the total retail applicant pool and the green bars represent total estimated retail GGR based on estimates we source from third-party equity analysts reports. According to equity analysts in 2021 and 2022, the percentage of total gross gaming revenue related to retail sports betting ranges from approximately 6% to 21% or an average of 12.5% of total overalls sports betting GGR, which includes both online sports betting and retail GGR. Our key observation from our analysis is that Massachusetts applicants that will offer retail sports wagering have projected a range of annual retail sports betting GGR of 25 to 30 million or approximately 45% of the 2027 estimated annual GGR over the five-year projection period through 2027. Notably, the applicant's predicted tan or total projected market for Massachusetts is based on their expected market share, which we highlight generally aligned analysts estimates. Please note, however, that no one has a crystal ball in estimating the total opportunity for the Massachusetts dressable retail sports betting market and any given forecast may ultimately prove incorrect. In addition to market size, RSNM also investigated the expected year-over-year growth trend in Massachusetts as provided by truest securities and Deutsche Bank market research. Two, again, test the reasonableness of each applicant's projections. The chart presented here excludes 2023 and 2024 from truest as this is estimated to be beyond 300% in growth. Please note that RSNM utilized these growth rates in testing the reasonableness of each retail applicant's GGR projections for the common market. Moving on to test the applicant pool's projections for hold percentage, RSNM calculated the historical hold percentage for retail sports betting in the United States over the last 24 months. Hold percentage, which is the percent of total bets kept as revenue by the sportsbook, has ranged from roughly 5% to 14% in states with legal retail sports wagering. Heading to the next slide. Finally, looking at a state-by-state level, RSNM developed benchmark for hold percentage. We have deduced that 7% to 10% is a likely range of competitive states, and we estimate the mass changes will likely fall between 8% and 9% based on the number of applicants before the commission. It is worth noting that the hold percentage for sports wagering providers was approximately 10% in March 2023 for the first month of actual performance in the Commonwealth. We will now provide a high-level overview of our observations regarding the applicant's financial projections as allowed in a public setting. The nature of much of the material is proprietary and competitively sensitive, and would be better discussed in executive session. As the commission is aware, the applicant, MassAsteroid Greyhound Associate, or MGA, intends to build a retail sports betting facility on the grounds of its former Greyhound track. Through an agreement with American Wagering Inc, the location will offer sports wagering on Cesar's sports book, simulcast race betting in food and beverage service from two restaurants. The investigators, which includes RSM, will provide a comprehensive view of MGA and EWI, or Cesar's, projected operations at its random park facility for the first five years of operations. We reviewed the applicant's revenue projection information in comparison to market analysts Deutsche Bank equity research reports and truest securities. Gaming industry reports both issued in March of 2023. The applicant, in accordance with section C2, has submitted a financial forecast for operations in the Commonwealth. As the operating partner under the lease agreement, EWI compiled and submitted its forecast for wagering operations. The submitted forecast contains three sections, a base case, an upside case, and a downside case. In the base case submitted scenario, the applicant provided a five-year financial projection of operating activity at random park, covering estimated sports and perimutual handle, gross gaming revenue, food, and beverage revenue, whole percentage, and operating expenses. For the upside and downside scenarios, the applicant provided revenue projections for sports, perimutual, and food individually. No costs or expenses were projected in the upside or downside forecast. So we cannot speak to the profitability of these scenarios. To compile its projections, the applicant first estimated the total addressable market or cam in Massachusetts by assuming a certain gaming spend for eligible adult in the state and applied an expected market share capture on that amount to calculate GGR. As the commission is aware, revenue is closely tied to whole percentage. AWI's whole percentage assumption is in line with the upper range we would expect to see in the state of Massachusetts. Again, due to the confidential nature of MGA's and AWI's projections, I will reserve further commentary for the executive session. With that, this concludes RSN's public portion of our presentation. I will stay on the line to see if MGC or MGA has any questions or comments. So RSN is indicating that it can't go further in its analysis. To my understanding that Rainham Park, you are informed about this is, I don't see right now a turning nose on my apologies. I'm sorry. I'm here, Chair. Yeah. You got me now? Okay. Yes. So I'm going to turn to both you, Attorney Nozzle and General Counsel Grossman and see if we have any guidance to give the commission so that we can evaluate whether we should move into executive session. Todd. I'd be happy to jump in. As Mr. Loughlin just mentioned, to the extent that commission is interested in learning more about the projected whole percentage, market shares, revenues, financial ratios, market shares and associated subjects relative to this applicant based upon RSN's review, all of that would fall under the umbrella of competitively sensitive information that has been provided in the course of an application for an operator license, the disclosure of which would place the applicant at a competitive disadvantage. And that being said, for the reasons I outlined in my introductory remarks, going into executive session is allowable and appropriate in this respect. So Counsel Grossman, I heard also that Connor might touch on construction because I assume it's all finance related. We don't have any implications of security exemption. I haven't heard anything associated with security related issues, but that is a valid reason to also move into- Not at this juncture. Okay. Not at this juncture. Okay. Does that make sense? Or it strictly would be on a financial analysis of the construction plans, correct? Correct. Okay. All right. So commissioner or some, if you don't have any questions for councilor Grossman or attorney Nozzle, I'll read the language of the statute into the record. Any questions for either? Okay. All right. So the commission anticipates that it may meet an executive session in conjunction with its review of the application in accordance with general laws, chapter 30A, section 21A7 in general laws, chapter 23N, section 6on. To consider information submitted by the applicant in the course of its application for an operator license, that is a trade secret, competitively sensitive or proprietary in which it disclosed publicly would place the applicant at a competitive disadvantage. With that, do I have a motion to go into executive session? I'm sure I move that the commission go into executive session on the matters and for the reasons just stated by the chair. Second. Any questions or edits? I'll set councilor Grossman. All right. I'll turn to commissioner O'Brien. Hi. Commissioner Hill. Hi. Commissioner Skinner. Hi. Commissioner Grossman. Okay. Commissioner Maynard. Hi.  You are seated between my two fellow commissioners, attorney Grossman. Commissioner Maynard, thank you, and I vote yes. Five, zero. And now it will happen because we will go into executive session. We're going to be transported, as I understand it, Nils and Dave through the breakout rooms, correct? Yep. I will be able to place everybody in the breakout rooms. I will just, I have a list of people that need to be going over, but please bear with me as there's a couple of moving parts here. So if you need to be put in and haven't been added, please just give me a holler.  So if any team is missing somebody, they can alert us. And let me start on the process anyway, because it's in a couple of different emails, but let me, let me toss the screen up and I'll just start moving everybody over. Excellent. Thank you so much. Not a problem. My apologies there, everybody, it'll be moving over in a second. No worries. We're being transported together, Brad. Now I know what it's like to be on Star Trek. It's funny, I didn't get that count down, like Commissioner Hilga. I didn't either. Interesting, huh? Yeah. Okay, the room has been opened. So I've added the commissioners, the Rainham Park team and the legal team as well. I'm going to be adding Bruce and Sterl. And if there's anybody else, please let me know and I'll add Karen as well. To read somewhere they know is still, I need to be transferred as well. Sure thing. Thank you. Perfect, thank you. Yeah, same with Connor. Sure thing, I'll make sure that YAR17 gets in there as well currently. Dave same with myself and Kathleen Cramer. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Dave, can you add Heather Hall too please? Grace, do you need to go over? I can just to make sure, because you can't see, right? Yeah, I added time in for that but I'll add you in as well just to make sure everybody's in. And if anybody else that needs to be added, just shoot me a message if somebody is going to be a holler in here. Dave, Joe Delaney here too. Dave, this is Daniel Bryan. I'm not sure if I'm in the, if I got moved over. I'll move you over now, Dan. Yeah, if you're seeing the meeting we'll resume shortly, graphic. You're in the regular meeting but I'll scoot you over to the breakout room. David, this is Eric Cushion. It looks like all the Caesars people are still in the main meeting. I'm looking at the names. I'm not sure. Yeah, perfect. Okay, if that's the case, I can toss over there. Thank you. Steve, I shall just joined as well on the random team. Dan, do you need to be moved in? Yes, please. As do I, Dave, please. David Ruhm. Thank you. If you can add Jeff Hendricks as well, that'd be great. Sounds good. Just added Dave there and let me add Jeff right now. Okay, I think that should be good. If you add Tim as the meeting. Oh, Tim, there you go. And David, can you add Fully Broga as well? Perfect. Just gonna say I think those are the only other questions I had. Yep, the rest should just be some MGC people. Steve got kicked out. I'll add him back in. David, can you move Heather Rapp as well? I don't see Heather in here. Oh, so Heather has been added in. She just hasn't joined. So that would be on her in there. Steve, do you need to go back in?  Yeah, I was trying to go back in because for some reason my video is not working. No worries. Yeah, I'm still not seeing you now. Do you want me to wait? I don't know if it's because I'm doing this from Europe or what? Shouldn't be. I have the video clicked on, so it's kind of weird. That is odd. Yeah, because it's showing that like, it's not giving you the screen of your videos off. It's giving you the screen that your video is on, but it's just not coming through. Yeah. Well, let me move you over there anyways, just in case they want to get going while this gets settled. Yeah, sure, absolutely. David, am I supposed to be in the main session or the breakout room? I believe we're supposed to be in this room, Ken, the main session. So I can't see what's going on in the breakout room. So all I hear is just a conversation happening just through the office here. So not sure if the Caesars people got moved back, it sounds like, but purposely. Yes, we were purposely moved back to the main meeting. Gotcha. And then they'll call us back later to talk about the projections. Sounds good. I just need one minute to get myself organized. All right. Okay, we can take down the screen today, please. All set. Thank you so much. I think everybody's joined us from our breakout room. Magic. Okay, we're gonna get started. This is a reconvening of my apologies. Today's Taming Commission meeting, public meeting number 458. We're holding this meeting virtually. We're returning from an executive session. I'll do a quick roll call, Commissioner Bryant. I am here. Commissioner Hill. I'm here. Commissioner Skinner. I'm here. Commissioner Maynard. I'm here. Okay. We'll get started. Thank you to RSN for its analysis on sections 4B and C on our agenda. This means that we're going to begin our section by section analysis and again a reminder, commissioners that will use the old phrase of taking the commission's temperature at the conclusion of each section and we'll get started now. We understand that we are limited on time today. We'll be concluding by quarter of five and we appreciate everyone's patience as we schedule our next meeting. And we have the very, very, very first opportunity that we can all convene applicant and commission. So thank you. And Grace Robinson will be coordinating that with me as we organize our calendar. Thank you, Grace. All right, commissioners. We're going to start with section B1. Grace has provided bookmarks for us. So that's convenient. That starts on page 24 of the application. Do you have any questions? Before we get started, I'll add just my immediate comment that I thought that this was a thoughtful and a thorough application and really a pleasure to read. And I appreciated the very, very clear outline of the relationship that you'll have between MGA and Cesar's sportsbook. Thank you for those of that analysis. Commissioner O'Brien, were you leading it? I was. So section B, I did, I mean, there was a fair amount of detail in here, but I did have some follow-up questions about because sort of this bifurcation of roles in terms of what Cesar's going to be responsible for and what MGA is going to be responsible for. In particular, when it comes to the sports wagering side, can Cesar speak to what's the highest level employee that's going to be on site in terms of overseeing the sports wagering side? Are you going to have just a ship supervisor? Can you talk to me a little bit more about what exactly is going to be the top position on site relative to the sports wagering book? Yeah, I can take that one. We'll have a sportsbook manager, obviously not there all the time. That's Kenny Weymuller, that's how you say his name. He's been with us for three years. Be there five and a half, six days a week in football seasons. Typically, you'll see those folks around. They'll be an assistant manager, two of those underneath Kenny, and then you'll have shift supervisors. So there'll always be some level of supervisory oversight and at most of the time, they'll either be a manager or an assistant manager, which is how we do that in other jurisdictions. And then Kenny will, he reports to a gentleman out of New Jersey who we call an area manager. He has several states and he's been with us for five years. He'll be up there at opening until he's, he'll just come up to rain during the opening until he's comfortable that everything is running smoothly. So is the sportsbook manager responsible for other properties as well? Or you say he won't be there 24-7 just because nobody can be there 24-7? Right, his only property will be Rain and Park. He will be the manager of that particular location. Okay. And if this goes too much into sort of the private operating, let me know, but are there any issues that would require going outside the Commonwealth to resolve in terms of that structure? Are you confident that that structure would handle what could arise at that facility? Well, and we do that in all states. Everything that we need that happens in the Commonwealth will be handled in the Commonwealth at the book itself. Okay, great. So if there's a customer dispute at the book, we'll handle it there. Now, some of the oversight may come from our trading room here in Nevada, but that's where the traders are based. Okay, but there'll be the authorized individual in Massachusetts. Yeah, you broke up there, Commissioner O'Brien. Sure, yeah, no, new iPad is doing that to me. That you're saying that there will be the, the top position employee in Massachusetts will be vested with the appropriate authority to deal with the issues that arise in Massachusetts. That's correct. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. I'll follow up with a question on subsection D and I just want to note that the agreement that MGA has with Caesar Sports Focus on pages 34 to 74 of the document, we did have the privilege of having a public meeting that addressed that agreement earlier. My question is unrelated to that directly, at least not directly related to that agreement. It's on subsection D. The application says Caesar Sports Club will have controls in place to ensure that sports wagering markets are limited to only those permissible in Massachusetts. Explains it has a substantial in-house trading team that regularly monitors markets for compliance. I guess I'm going to ask how frequently is regularly? And if you could just describe to us your system to ensure compliance, particularly around the limits that we have on Massachusetts teams and athletes. I can take that along with Lisa, but we embed independent trading auditors that are part of our compliance team with our trading organization. So it's not set up as a single point of failure. We obviously have a large trading organization that has management both across the top, but also on a sport by sport basis. So what we strive to do is create subject matter expertise across every single sport and competition. And that way you have kind of constant eyes on both the events, the markets, and then third party correlation of those to our independent team that sit within our compliance group. We work 24 seven from a trading perspective. So we are constantly reviewing the markets that are available public in the various bets and wagering activity that are coming through those. So when we say a regular, it's constant is what I would say. And we do this obviously in 20 plus other jurisdictions, many of which have similar or other types of restrictive market components that we need to manage to. So it's something we take very seriously. Is it a combination of both automated and eyes on manual? It is, yeah. So our system is set up on a state by state standpoint in terms of our betting feet. So every betting feed has an endpoint that goes to a specific state. That betting fee can be configured at the top to restrict markets that are not allowed in that state. So for example, when we set up mobile, we set it up so that any restricted market of Massachusetts would never flow into the application and retail is operated off the exact same platform and the same fee. So we use technology in a way to manage it very specifically to that jurisdiction. And then we have oversight on a continual basis because there are times when the state may wanna add new markets or new events or change how they might approach an existing event. And so we're constantly making sure that we're coordinating with the jurisdiction. I think one of the things we pride ourselves on is our relationships with regulators around markets and market activity. We communicate proactively and as often as necessary and reach out quite a bit whenever there's a question. Commissioner, other questions in section B? Commissioner Maynard, you're saying no, not leaning in, Commissioner Skinner, a visual, there you are, sorry. I'm all set with section B one. Commissioner Hill, B-1. All set, Madam Chair, thank you. Okay, then we'll turn to section B two, questions. I'm sure that this is one that I'm remarking on noting that your application was submitted in January of 23 and we've done a whole lot of regulatory work since then. But there's a few times where you say that these are sports book or deploy a range of offers, including free bets. Does anybody want to address that? That's like on page, I think. I think I saw it in other places, but we've had some regulatory work done on that. And I'm hoping that language may have shifted. Commissioner, I'll just speak from the random part of the side, obviously, who ultimately ends up being responsible. I think you're right. There are actually several regulations that have sort of been implemented that certainly will influence our operations going forward. And obviously, again, we have the benefit of a partner here who's operating in Massachusetts who understands what those limitations are around sort of the free bet structure. And something that we intend to obviously be fully compliant with despite sort of the use of the language here, which I think predated a lot of that discussion, which I think has continued just up to the last few weeks. Maybe just to add from the Caesar side, we've obviously just continued the use of that term across the board in all materials and on all apps and websites. And it was a legacy leftover because of the time of the contract. I just wanted to point that out because it's in here. So now the record is clear that you've addressed it. So thank you. I have another one of the kinds of questions I think now I understand it by having seen your presentation. But again, I think I'm right on the page. Forgive me if I'm wrong on the page, but at one point you write that Caesar Sportsbook envisions chaos distributed throughout the sportsbook and other approved areas at Rainham Park. This Rainham Park, the entire property, and then you're thinking of the sportsbook that more limited property where the kiosks are and then kiosks are you thinking of something outside of the property? I just want to make sure I'm clear. Sorry, Jerry, I can jump into that. And certainly I think Caesar's can verify this. I think what we were referring to there, if we're talking about the permanent space, is that there will be kiosks located throughout that permanent space, but not outside of that facility. We don't plan to do that. Obviously, with the one exception is the temporary facility, which we would operate until the permanent facility is finalized. And that again would be self-contained when it came to kiosks. There wouldn't be a kiosk over in the simulcast center, for example, it would just be all within that secure 21 and over space. So really the other areas, in my right, that's really the temporary space is what you were thinking of, you know? Yeah, and I think honestly, I think the language might be a little bit loose. We're talking about sort of the, we have the sports wagering area by the where the windows will be. And then there will be kiosk located throughout that facility, right? So there will maybe be one over in the other corner. So people take advantage for convenience purposes, but all contained within that 30,000 square foot 30,000 square foot sports wagering space. That's how I thought. Thanks. Other questions for B2? Commissioner, okay. So following up some of this, I had some questions about sort of compliance and security, but to follow up on what you just said, Madam Chair, I based on the application of the representations, is it accurate that to do an ADW wager at this new sports place, once the temporary is shut down, that's got to segregate it off to the side, that you'll have to be 21 to enter the premises to do ADW or sports betting, right? You're not going to be carving out an area for just an ADW bet at 18 plus, right? That's correct. I think the best configuration for the facility is to make it 21 and over across the board. Okay, thanks. I'll chime in. I applaud you for that. We understand that there's an age difference for simulcast betting and for management of your facility, we applaud you for it. So thank you. Makes our lives a little bit easier, doesn't it, Commissioner O'Brien? So thank you. All right, other questions on B2, Commissioner, is anyone leaning in? All right, well, I like giving compliments. So I just also wanted to point out that you did your application, did say that you'll have customer service to assist customers with electronic wagering process during the initial launch. And I know we really value that kind of customer service and noted it in your application. I just wanted to mention it. So, okay, B3. So this is about the platform and the tech expertise questions. Not sure if it's in B3 or B4, where you, is this where the server gets mentioned or is that later in the application? Perhaps I can. I think that might be later, Chair, but let me double-check. I think it's later, we can wait. The only question I have on this that I see that right now, you are migrating Liberty, the legacy into Liberty, the Liberty platform, but we are starting. There's not gonna be any delay or anything because of that migration. You would be starting with Liberty and could do that if the license were issued today. Yes, that's correct. We are operating the Liberty platform on the mobile in Massachusetts and we would start right off with Liberty retail. We only have very few states left on the legacy platform and we're very close to fully transitioning that out, but it'll have no impact on the Massachusetts performance. Thank you. B4, B3 and B4. Any questions around the expertise? We heard from GLI, of course. Well, we can always go back. Well, actually, it's at the end of the B, so I might take everyone's temperature. There are no other questions. Madam Chair, did the applicant submit anything in response to B3 and B4? Well, I know that you may, there was a little skipping of the numbers, Commissioner Skinner, but if you read it in totality, I feel like they did address the topics, but... Commissioner Skinner, I didn't have anything specific as responsive to those subsections. If you're looking for three and four, I don't have that response. Yeah, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything. It's in other sections. I believe that the applicant followed precisely the format throughout the application, but perhaps with respect to B3 and B4, Attorney Nozl, do you want to address that so that we can stay... I'm looking through it. I'm looking through it now, Chair. I don't see the answers to those two questions, but I do think that those topics are addressed throughout the, in other parts of the application, which I'm happy to talk through. And if there's a need to supplement on those two questions, I'm happy to do. I just simply don't see it in the PDF form that was filed. And I think it might have been an oversight. Yeah, I think it was just formatting. I feel that I regret that the application is totality that are answered. So perhaps, Commissioner Skinner's point there, it might be helpful to provide that in a future deliverable commission. Commissioner Skinner, would you like that? Well, just to be clear, Attorney Nozl, I don't think it was an oversight per se, that those sections, B3 and B4, are applicable to CAP3 applicants only according to them. So I just wanna, I mean, and I understand that some of the information is provided in other parts of the application, but just wanted that on the record that it's not entirely on you. Yeah, no, that is, thank you for providing an excuse for me. That is my recollection. And I think we did deal with the, certainly the technology aspects in other sections of the application. But certainly if there's anything relevant there that we need to update or for completeness purposes, but not applicable, I'm happy to do that as well. I might come back to that later when we meet the second time around, because after just reviewing this and see if there's anything that was omitted, if you don't mind. Do we have a notation that that's only limited to? I wanna make sure that that's, because that's not from my experience looking back, the platform management. It's on the application, Madam Chair. Oh, it's on the application. So for the kiosks, I guess that's where I saw the answer for the platform. Okay, so those two pieces were for strictly for the CAP3. Okay, so we don't have any problem with that. Then moving on, then we can conclude section B. Can I take the temperature of the commissioners? Do they meet the expectations that have been outlined by Councilor Grossman? Not meet, meet or exceed. I'll start with Commissioner Maynard. Madam Chair, being that I'm familiar with both applicants and prior, well, the applicant and the applicant's partner, I should say it that way. I think they meet expectations in this section. Commissioner Skinner? I think they meet what's been requested in B1 and B2 specifically in the application. Okay, Commissioner Hill? I believe they met expectations for section B. Right, Commissioner O'Brien? I agree. Okay, so we have a consensus on that. We can move on to, we have time to move on to section C. Commissioner, do you have any questions on C1? That's it, women opportunities. So I had a question on trying to see the page number. So C starts at what, 81 in the broader app. There were some questions, there was some reference to some of the various employment opportunities that could arise, which first I have to laud each said this and I think it's accurate and bears pointing out that unlike some of the pure cat threes that there's some employment opportunities to be created in the Commonwealth in connection with the food and the beverage and the onsite at the facility. I believe the number cited were approximately 130 for food and beverage, other retail. I had a question about what do you mean when you say other retail related services? Do you mean just services for the VIP rental, that sort of thing? Or do you have other jobs in mind? Anything that's in large food and beverage. So what the other retail is? No, I think that is probably a reference to anything extending out of the food and beverage services. So Brian, we don't, as far as I know, plan to have any onsite retail offerings. I can't say that there might not be, I guess a boot with t-shirts and hats or something along those lines. No, so we'll have a lot of requests. Yeah, also that can include, Sue's reminded me, certainly lottery folks. Paper and booklets. People could be onsite as well, but the bulk of it's really around that food and beverage opportunity. And then obviously plus the separate staff fired by Caesars to run the sports book, which I think those numbers are in that 15 range. Okay, yep. And then some of the ones that you're listing here is the $8 an hour. Is that, they're all tipped. Is that why the bar back? Buster, et cetera, those tipped employees, is that why it's eight instead of 14, 25? Correct. Yeah, okay. Have a follow-up, Madam Tia. Thank you. Just on the same line of questioning, the 130 new employees, when you look at the list provided in response to question C1D, there's 119. Could someone speak to the discrepancy there? And that's for Caesars employees. Then similarly for the Rainham Park employees, you are anticipating adding 15 additional positions, but there's only 11 accounted for on that same chart in C1D. Nope, there are 15, sorry. Goes on to the second page. So that's for the Rainham Park employees, but the question still stands as to the Caesars employees. Yeah, let me pull that up. That sounds like it's flipped. We'll have, David Grohman with Caesars, we'll have the 15, I'll need to pull that document up. You're right. You're right. Okay. Yes, you're right. Yeah, Commissioner Skinner, you're looking at C1D, correct? That's correct. Yeah. Yeah, that second chart is the Caesars chart. So that's five, six, 11. That is 15. So, but the question stands as to the Rainham Park employees. Sure. The difference between the, you're saying that adds up to 119, not 130. Yes. Okay. We'll need to update that. It should have added up to 130. So we'll list that. Yep. Would you also provide, you're gonna provide a supplemented list of positions as well? We will update that chart. Yeah. Richard, I have a question. This is just a little knit, but I, and I know