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VI UPDATE U.S. Virgin Islands Public Records TRANSCRIPT OF PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS PSC Regular Meeting - Opening Public Services Commission (PSC) recording published June 10, 2026 · 0.1 hours · gov Source recording https://youtu.be/hXC6K5_bDaM Status This is NOT the official transcript. 3 V.I.C. § 884 requires the agency itself to make a verbatim record of its proceedings and reduce it to a transcript within sixty days. This is a working transcript produced by machine from a recording of the proceeding, offered as a finding aid. Transcribed by VI Update, using OpenAI Whisper large-v3-turbo, run locally. Not reviewed by a person. Reliability Automatic transcription, UNVERIFIED. Verify every quotation against the recording before relying on it. Speech recognition splits spoken digits and wraps figures mid-number, so a dollar amount, a vote count or a bill number can be wrong in a way that reads as correct. 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Please copy it, quote it, index it, train on it, republish it, mirror it, sell it. Redistribution is the point: a public record with one copy is one fire from gone. No permission is needed, and none is ours to grant or withhold. Thank you. Thank you. No, okay, no vote. 0:00:00 All right. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay, we're going to call this meeting to order of the Public Services Commission. i'm commissioner laura nichols sam's date is june 9 2026. um first order of business today is we're going to reorder our agenda you're going to do it okay um motion madam chair point of order please point of order doesn't doesn't matter i'm i'm the chair of the commission i haven't relinquished the chair yet so as a point of order the first thing i'd like to do i'd like to open the meeting on on today the 9th of uh of june it's approximately 9 22. this is commissioner hughes i'm remote and for purposes of administration of the meeting today i'm going to relinquish the chair to vice chair nickel sams for purposes of administering the first four items of the agenda and i will uh i will re retake control of the uh of the meeting uh proceeding with items five and six thank you chair nickel sams you uh you have the meeting okay let's have a roll call please commissioner clement across absent commissioner laura nichols sams here commissioner mark williams commissioner david hughes president senator hubert frederick I move to reorder the agenda moving item number six energy matters to item now become item 0:01:03 number four on the agenda and everything else remains as uh what happens to item four if everything else it means so you're essentially i mean you're just moving it because i'm moving item number four um number six to item number four and everything else falls in consecutive order so what does that make new item five it'll make it item four the new item five correct yeah what is that item um budget matters budget matters okay why are we doing that please because i am not going to be here for the whole day and i want to make sure that any matters on the agenda that requires absolute um action that i'm here to to to um i'm sure we get it done without commissioner williams i'd really like you to be here for the ferry boat matters as well would would you consider amending your motion to move both item five and six up in the agenda? 0:03:30 Okay, so I'll move to reorder. What items number? Wouldn't? Well, number six first. Okay. Okay, let me start. My motion is to move regarding the agenda. Item number six becomes item number two. Item number four becomes item number five and six. and six i am that's what i'm doing okay i'm sorry we're moving item number okay okay all right i 0:04:55 Machine transcript · UNVERIFIED. Verify every quotation against the recording. Speakers are not identified. VI Update · usvipublicrecords.com · public record, no rights asserted (CC0 1.0) 1 of 2 Public Services Commission (PSC) · PSC Regular Meeting - Opening think we got it now so we're recording the agenda to make item number six item number three and item number four becomes item item number five. Item number six becomes item number three. Item number five becomes item number four. And everything else falls subsequently in place. I second the motion. Okay, so we have three yes, so the motion has passed. Next, we're going to go into executive session to get legal advice for items on the agenda. We should be back in about, what do you think? Hopefully by 10. 0:06:17 By 10? Okay. I'm going to try and go very quickly. I'm going to stop and notify you. The utilities are reordered the agenda. So now they're coming for that. Did we hear Raymond? You want staff to? Yes. That's in progress. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Williams. You need actually a motion for executive session. What's your hard stop? How's that about 12? Okay. Great. I want to help. Okay. I'd like to make a motion to go into executive session. You cannot do that, chair. I'll move the chair. We just totally do. Okay. I won't have to raise it to executive session. 0:06:51 Second. You can't second it either. Okay. do we second emotion all right no objections no objections thank you okay so yes you don't need a 0:07:31 People named in this transcript SUSPECTED, and a finding aid only. 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