Good afternoon and welcome to the october 29th, 2019 meeting board of supervisors. Madam clerk, please call the role. role call . Brown is not present. Walton not present. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, coleena mendoza and michael balbazar who record our meetings and make transcripts available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Yes,. President. I have one to communicate from supervisor walton, who is conducting his civic duty today jurierjury and may attend later. Colleagues, can i have a motion to dismiss. Motion made and without objection, supervisor wallson is excused. Today we are approving minutes from september 24, 2019 meeting. Seeing none, can i have a motion to
Good afternoon and welcome to the october 29th, 2019 meeting board of supervisors. Madam clerk, please call the role. role call . Brown is not present. Walton not present. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, coleena mendoza and michael balbazar who record our meetings and make transcripts available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Yes,. President. I have one to communicate from supervisor walton, who is conducting his civic duty today jurierjury and may attend later. Colleagues, can i have a motion to dismiss. Motion made and without objection, supervisor wallson is excused. Today we are approving minutes from september 24, 2019 meeting. Seeing none, can i have a motion to
Good afternoon and welcome to the october 29th, 2019 meeting board of supervisors. Madam clerk, please call the role. role call . Brown is not present. Walton not present. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, coleena mendoza and michael balbazar who record our meetings and make transcripts available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Yes,. President. I have one to communicate from supervisor walton, who is conducting his civic duty today jurierjury and may attend later. Colleagues, can i have a motion to dismiss. Motion made and without objection, supervisor wallson is excused. Today we are approving minutes from september 24, 2019 meeting. Seeing none, can i have a motion to
Panelists. Theyll introduce themselves before their presentations. Theyre each going to speak for about 10 to 12 minutes at the most 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 ill 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. Do with that information what you will. I am frank popper. I teach city planning rather than history, although increasely, i take a historical approach to city planning. I do that at rutgers and 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 my 49yearold book was dug up and i was asked to participat
Next on American History tv, the discussion on policymaking commissions inl American History. This talk from Purdue University was part of the conference called making American History. I am the associate professor of instructions, a legal historian who has written about president ial commissions and Administrative Law from law reform. We look forward to you can tell, todays session is being filmed by cspan, so do with that information as you will. Frank will be first. Yes, my name is frank popper. I teach city planning. Increasingly i take an historical approach to city planning. I do that with rutgers. The reason i am here, nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th entry 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 they dug my ago, 49 yearold book they dug my 49yearold book. They asked if i would participate. President ial commissions have a long history in the United Sta