Taking the reins after years of in-fighting and intrigue, the new chair of the Cannabis Control Commission presided over his first meeting where he and another commissioner cruised through a series of licensing votes.

The 30-minute, drama-free meeting embodied how CCC Chair Christopher Harding said afterward that he hopes to run the agency.

“I would love for us to be the most boring agency in state government, that is doing its job, doing its mission, supporting those that are served as consumers and supporting those in industry,” Harding said after adjourning.

Gov. Maura Healey last week tapped Harding, Xiomara DeLobato and Anthony Wilson as the state’s new marijuana regulators, replacing the four commissioners who had been previously on the job.

The clean sweep was the result of a state law that dissolved the prior iteration of the CCC, shrunk its membership and instituted other operational reforms. The overhaul came after a bitter legal fight between then-CCC chair Shannon O’Brien and state Treasurer Deb Goldberg, and after the state’s inspector general urged lawmakers to resolve dysfunction within the agency.

Harding told reporters after Thursday’s meeting that he’s been “kind of drinking out of a fire hose” in his first week on the job, getting up to speed on the reform law and the priorities of commission staff.

Harding comes to the CCC from Healey’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services. He also spent about 30 years working in the private sector. He’s worked in state government before, as revenue commissioner under former Gov. Charlie Baker, Harding. There, he was a founding member of the Cannabis Advisory Board during the initial rollout of legal recreational marijuana in Massachusetts.

“It’s just amazing to come back these years later to see how much progress has been made,” Harding said. “So I think there’s a lot of great things to build upon over these past years, but I also think it’s an opportunity on certain areas to kind of hit that reset button moving forward.”

DeLobato, on her third day as a cannabis commissioner, joined Harding in voting on the licenses. The third commissioner, Wilson, is not set to be sworn in until next week, but sat alongside the other two to observe on Thursday.

DeLobato, most recently the vice president and chief of staff for the Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council, said one of her priorities is making sure that the CCC’s social equity initiatives are “sustainable, they’re long-lasting, [and] they truly lead to economic prosperity, to economic mobility.”