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VI UPDATE U.S. Virgin Islands Public Records TRANSCRIPT OF PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS PSC Regular Meeting - Opening Remarks Public Services Commission (PSC) recording published January 14, 2026 · 0.0 hours · gov Source recording https://youtu.be/DmFoFLJHyRQ 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. Speakers are not identified: automatic speaker labelling was measured unusable and removed. Public record The underlying proceeding is a public record, and this body is NAMED as a governmental agency in 1 V.I.C. § 253(b), so its meetings are open to the public under § 254. 3 V.I.C. § 884 requires it to make a verbatim record of each proceeding and reduce it to a transcript within sixty days, and § 884(b) makes that transcript open to examination under § 881, which also gives every citizen the right to copy it and the news media the right to publish it. The source recording is not ours, is not hosted here, and remains with its publisher at the link above. Rights To what we added · the transcription, its arrangement and its description · we assert nothing. A verbatim transcript is mechanical rather than authored, so there is likely nothing in it to own; to the extent any copyright is nonetheless found to subsist, it is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. 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. okay go ahead good morning we'd like to call to order the regular meeting for january 13 2026 of the virgin islands public services commission uh we're meeting here at st thomas virgin islands and some of our members may be appearing remotely from st boy i want to take this opportunity to say happy new year to everyone and to thank the staff for your work your diligence your commitment in 2025. we know that you're going to continue to do well and represent us and work with us in 2026 um thank you for all of your hard work on behalf of on behalf of the people of universal islands so thank you want to say thank you to my fellow commissioners uh for all that we do uh this time we'll have a roll call Okay. Commissioner Clement McGrath. Present. Commissioner Laura Mikulsan. Present. 0:00:00 Commissioner Raymond Williams. Here. Commissioner David Hughes. Mark Baishia Hughes has excused. Commissioner Pedro Williams. Present. okay for water for our present we have a forum all right thank you um we'll follow our agenda the next item on our agenda is tested for an executive session for what reason do we need to go to executive session two matters are pending litigation all right do i have motion to go to executive session to discuss pending litigation has been moved by commissioner McGrath seconded by commissioner Sam's uh roll call yes commissioner Nicholas Sam's yes commissioner Raymond Williams uh yes yes commissioner Pedro Williams yes the motion has been adopted so at this time the commission will rise into executive session take a few minutes to clear the zoom line and then we'll have our discussion 0:01:22 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 Remarks People named in this transcript SUSPECTED, and a finding aid only. Names were matched by machine against the spellings used across all 426 of our transcripts, and the title is the one used in the room. Being named here is NOT evidence that a person attended or spoke · only that the name was said. Speech recognition mishears names, so a spelling may be wrong even where no alternative is offered. 2x Commissioner Clement McGrath 2x Commissioner David Hughes 2x Commissioner Pedro Williams 2x Commissioner Raymond Williams 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) 2 of 2