Emergency and to protect Commission Members to the employees and the public, the meeting rooms at city hall are closed. However, Commission Members and staff will be participating in todays meeting remotely. This pursuant to the various local, state and federal orders declaration and directives. Commissioner members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in a meeting to the same extent if they were physically present. Viewing today and todays Commission Meeting may vary depending on the method used to connect to this remote meeting. Viewers watching, will see only the speaker on their screen while those viewing in web ex will see commissioners and other individuals participating in todays meeting. Public made will be on each item this agenda. You will have sf gov. Org are streaming the dialin number for Public Comment across the screen. You can call in 14084189388. Again, that number is 408 4189388. The access code for this meeting is 1469350205. The access is
This meeting will reflect that due to covid19, Health Emergency and to protect Commission Members to the employees and the public, the meeting rooms at city hall are closed. However, Commission Members and staff will be participating in todays meeting remotely. This pursuant to the various local, state and federal orders declaration and directives. Commissioner members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in a meeting to the same extent if they were physically present. Viewing today and todays Commission Meeting may vary depending on the method used to connect to this remote meeting. Viewers watching, will see only the speaker on their screen while those viewing in web ex will see commissioners and other individuals participating in todays meeting. Public made will be on each item this agenda. You will have sf gov. Org are streaming the dialin number for Public Comment across the screen. You can call in 14084189388. Again, that number is 408 4189388. The acc
Its my pleasure to welcome today a professor Gregory Irwin of the revolution through world war ii. Its one of the great advantages of being in philadelphia that we can be close neighbors to professor irwin, whose work on the british army ands the American Revolution is extensive and nuanced and always inspiring of our exhibits and publications. In the development of our core exhibition, professor irwin played a crucial role in the display of the story of enslaved runaways weighing the promise of the proclamation announced by general clinton in 17 which offered somewhat vaguely protection and freedom of run aways who made their way to the british lines through consultation with a number of historians particularly of American History in this period. It became a really imperative that we do two very challenging, often seemingly contradictory things with showing and people facing this question of whether to trust the british on this promise. One was to demonstrate their agency to capture t
Military historian Gregory Erwin talks about challenges the british army faced in adapting to north american terrain and battle tactics during the revolutionary war. The museum of the American Revolution, Pritzker Museum and the richard vann has foundation cohosts this event as part of a threeday international conference. My name is philip mead, director of Curatorial Affairs on the American Revolution, and it is my pleasure to welcome today to welcome to welcome today ,resident Gregory Urwin professor of American History from the revolution through world war ii. A longtimerwin is friend of this museum project. Thene of it is one of great advantages of being in philadelphia, that we can be close neighbors to the professor, whose work on the british army in the American Revolution is extensive and always inspiring of our exhibits and publications , and the development of our core exhibition. Professor urwin played a crucial role in the display of the story weighinged runways, the promis
Now. I will take again item 1 then i will do Public Comment for item one only and skip to items 9 and 10 combined. Public comment for 9 and 10 items only and then we will do general Public Comment for 15 minutes. Now recall the general Public Comment for any item not on the agenda and go to our regular program. I wanted to let you know that i then and there again this is an important topic we appreciate you being here. We want to cut to the chase and get bo it. As a body, our responsibility is to do policy and develop for the department. We have asked the chief of police to begin an investigation, and as you saw last week. Other commissioners have reached out. To the chief of police to ensure an investigation is done in this matter. We asked dph to investigate in policy and any possible disciplinary matters. As the body who decides policy and develop, it is important for us to remain neutral and listen to the facts as they criminal it is my understanding that both the department have b