For their presentations. They will speak for 10 to 12 minutes at the most, i will enforce that with an iron hand about their Current Research on president ial commissions and then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of president ial commissions and political history. And i will reserve the last half hour at least for questions and comments from you and for us to continue talking. As you can tell todays session is being filmed by cspan so do with that information as you will. All right. Frank is going to go first and introduce yourself. Yeah, my name is frank popper. I teach city planning rather than history, although increasingly i take a historical approach to city planning. I do that at rutgers and at princeton. The reason im here is that nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th century fund, now the Century Foundation in new york city on president ial commissions and its one of the very few sources, i think, on them and a couple of months ago
Next on American History tv, a decision on policymaking and president ial commissions in political history. This talk from Purdue University lasts about 90 minutes. 90 minut. Welcome to our panel on president ial commissions. At the intersection politics, policy making and forgotten history of president ial missions im joanna grisinger. Im a legal historian of the modern Administrative State who has written about president ial commissions and Administrative Law reform. Thanks to you all for coming, unfortunately Cynthia Spence is unable to be here today but we still look forward to great conversation. We will be informal today. There are two panelists, dov weinryb grohsgal and frank popper will introduce themselves for their presentations. They will speak for 10 to 12 minutes at the most, i will enforce that with an iron hand about their Current Research on president ial commissions and then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of president ial commissions and polit
And so we require there to be mandatory ethics training on that acquisitionrelated interaction so its clear what you can and cannot do. Secondly on Acquisition Strategy, we require every Program Start out with an Acquisition Strategy. It has to be done in writing and upfront and dated as needed. This strategy would consolidate at least six different requirements into that upfront strategy and has to include what is the most appropriate type of contract for this particular acquisition. This is another area where one size clearly does not fit all. It has to consider whether multiyear is appropriate and include Risk Mitigation strategies just like commandants have to have war plans, and we need to have it for our plan. And it has to consider incentives. So, for example, one of the things we want to consider is shared savings on Service Contracts, which are not currently allowed. And the third area, we want to simplify the chain of command tore acquisition decisions. So a number of require
You have to wait 2 minutes i think locking up a bike but really the point of this is to encourage quick turnover of bikes and have them be used by as many people as possible and whatever decision we make to be careful that it doesnt translate into something a smaller number of people are monopolizing the bicycles let me ask you what is the average amount of time that someone takes out a bike . So ninety percent of the user use it for 30 minutes because they know if they use it longer they will pay a fee. Im curious what the actual usage is even if i have 30 minutes im not going to keep it for another 7 minutes i guess im less worried that if we extend to 45 minutes that people will hold onto that bike it is heavy thats one thing its really hard to take it with you anywhere so i dont see the incentive if you increase the time it will only be utilized for slower bikers. Anyway that would be my one feedback and i noticed that the red hot area on one of those slides was inside Golden Gate
Thats kind of an odd thing but its absolutely true, same thing with reclamation. The more we do, the harder it is to say we want more. Im thinking we should probably take a look at whether it makes sense to have a conservation fee that is a fixed charge and that couldnt just be conservation, but the idea is that this is a commitment that needs to be funded that over the longterm it will improve the portfolio and the metric water in the system and we know its going to cost money and we can be honest with people upfront and say its going to cost you money and sure how much. The nice thing also if you raise the fee you can continue to fund project until you cant afford it anymore and by that time you dont need to. I would like us to have a look at that. The last item is one of incentives. We want to make it in peoples self interest to do the right thing and not rely just on people doing the right thing out of the goodness of their heart. The only twhaun occurred to me frankly as i was thi