; minutes; public availability of documents (A) Notice All open meetings of the Commission shall be preceded by timely public notice in the Federal Register of the time, place, and subject of the meeting. (B) Minutes Minutes of each meeting shall be kept and shall contain a record of the people present, a description of the discussion that occurred, and copies of all statements filed. Subject to section 552 of title 5, United States Code, the minutes and records of all meetings and other documents that were made available to or prepared for the Commission shall be available for public inspection and copying at a single location in the offices of the Commission. (3) Initial meeting The Commission shall hold its first meeting within 30 days after all members of the Commission have been appointed. 5. Staffing and resources (a) Staffing The chairman of the Commission may, without regard to the civil service laws and regulations, appoint and terminate an executive director and such other additional personnel as may be necessary for the Commission to perform its duties. The executive director shall be compensated at a rate not to exceed the rate payable for Level IV of the Executive Schedule under chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code. The chairman shall select staff from among qualified individuals who are citizens of the United States. (b) Resources In carrying out its duties under section 3, the Commission— (1) is authorized to secure directly from any Federal department or agency any information it deems necessary to carry out its functions under this Act, and each such department or agency is authorized to cooperate with the Commission and, to the extent permitted by law, to furnish such information (other than information described in section 552(b)(1)(A) of title 5, United States Code) to the Commission, upon the request of the Commission