March 19, 2015 Commission Meeting Notice

MEETING NOTICE

Date: Thursday, March 19, 2015

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Place: One Ashburton Place, Room 619, Boston, MA  02108

AGENDA

PUBLIC SESSION

1.  CALL TO ORDER - 9:00 a.m.

2.  MINUTES

Review and approve the public and executive session minutes of the meeting of February 19, 2015 – Vote Requested

3.  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT  

4.  PUBLIC EDUCATION DIVISION MATTERS

Memorandum is enclosed on the division’s activities for February 2015.

5.  REPORT OF LEGAL COMMITTEE CHAIR

6.  LEGAL DIVISION MATTERS

(a) Delegation of authority to Chair or Vice-Chair to make determinations in response to conflict of interest disclosures – Vote Requested (Legal Tab A)

(b) SFI status report

(c) Division metrics for February 2015

(d) Special projects

(e) Adjudicatory matters - hearing and pre-hearing conference schedule (Legal Tab B)

(f) Litigation status update

7.  ENFORCEMENT DIVISION MATTERS

Investigations Unit metrics

EXECUTIVE SESSION

8.  ENFORCEMENT DIVISION MATTERS

(a) Investigations Unit report

(b) Enclosed for review and/or action are:  Cases deferred; Preliminary Inquiry recommendations and reports; summons authorization requests; Disposition Agreements; and private compliance letters.

9.  LEGAL DIVISION MATTERS

Summaries of selected informal opinions/advice are enclosed (Legal Tab C)

10.  ADJUDICATORY MATTERS

Adjudicatory proceedings status report (Legal Tab D)

11.  ADJOURN  

Notice Posted: March 13, 2015