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May 13, 2024
11 recorded votes, 11 with disagreement.
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Present: Burhan Azeem, Marc McGovern, Patricia Nolan, Joan Pickett, Denise Simmons, Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Paul Toner, Ayesha Wilson
Absent: Sumbul Siddiqui
Every vote, in order
City Manager's Agenda · CMA 2024 #97
Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $39,600.00 to the Grant Fund Fire Extraordinary Expenditures account. The funds will be used to purchase...
APPROPRIATION ADOPTED CMA PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1]
Sumbul Siddiqui is listed as absent for this vote.
From the minutes
“RESULT: APPROPRIATION ADOPTED CMA PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1] YEAS: Councillor Azeem, Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Pickett, Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Wilson, Mayor Simmons ABSENT: Councillor Siddiqui.”
City Manager's Agenda · CMA 2024 #98
Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $37,018.59, to the Grant Fund Fire Extraordinary Expenditures account. Funds will be used to replace the...
APPROPRIATION ADOPTED CMA PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1]
Sumbul Siddiqui is listed as absent for this vote.
From the minutes
“RESULT: APPROPRIATION ADOPTED CMA PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1] YEAS: Councillor Azeem, Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Pickett, Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Wilson, Mayor Simmons ABSENT: Councillor Siddiqui.”
City Manager's Agenda · CMA 2024 #99
Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the transfer of $200,000 in the General Fund between School Department statutory accounts as follows: $200,000 from the...
APPROPRIATION ADOPTED CMA PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1]
Sumbul Siddiqui is listed as absent for this vote.
From the minutes
“RESULT: APPROPRIATION ADOPTED CMA PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1] YEAS: Councillor Azeem, Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Pickett, Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Wilson, Mayor Simmons ABSENT: Councillor Siddiqui.”
City Manager's Agenda · CMA 2024 #100
A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 24-14, regarding a request the City Manager direct the appropriate City staff to investigate and...
APPROPRIATION ADOPTED CMA PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1]
Sumbul Siddiqui is listed as absent for this vote.
From the minutes
“RESULT: APPROPRIATION ADOPTED CMA PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1] YEAS: Councillor Azeem, Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Pickett, Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Wilson, Mayor Simmons ABSENT: Councillor Siddiqui.”
City Manager's Agenda · CMA 2024 #102
A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appointments of Raffi Freeman and Krissandra Robinson as well as the reappointments of Susan Schlensinger, James G....
APPOINTMENTS ADOPTED CMA PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1]
Sumbul Siddiqui is listed as absent for this vote.
From the minutes
“RESULT: APPOINTMENTS ADOPTED CMA PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1] YEAS: Councillor Azeem, Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Pickett, Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Wilson, Mayor Simmons ABSENT: Councillor Siddiqui.”
City Manager's Agenda · CMA 2024 #104
Place on file: A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a request to move to Executive Session to discuss strategy with respect to litigation known as City of...
PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1]
Sumbul Siddiqui is listed as absent for this vote.
From the minutes
“RESULT: PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1] YEAS: Councillor Azeem, Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Pickett, Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Wilson, Mayor Simmons ABSENT: Councillor Siddiqui.”
Policy Order And Resolution List · POR 2024 #62
That the City Manager is requested to direct the Community Development Department to work with the Co-Chairs of the Housing Committee to turn their vision of multifamily housing citywide into...
ORDER ADOPTED AS AMENDED
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Policy Order And Resolution List · POR 2024 #63
That the City Council calls upon the City Manager to take steps to bring support to efforts supporting Overdose Prevention Center legislation currently under consideration in the Massachusetts...
ORDER ADOPTED AS AMENDED
The Final Actions give the result only, with no count, so MassVoter does not show how each councillor voted.
Policy Order And Resolution List · POR 2024 #64
The Cambridge City Council go on record recognizing the first full week of May as Peripheral Neuropathy Awareness Week.
ORDER ADOPTED
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Resolutions
Resolutions adopted together (4 resolutions, RES 2024 #100 to RES 2024 #103)
ORDER ADOPTED
The Final Actions record the same result and vote for each of these 4 resolutions (RES 2024 #100, RES 2024 #101, RES 2024 #102, RES 2024 #103); MassVoter lists them as one vote. The Final Actions give the result only, with no count, so MassVoter does not show how each councillor voted.
Resolutions · RES 2024 #104
In Recognition of CASPAR’s First Step Team Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Wilson and entire membership.
ORDER ADOPTED AS AMENDED
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From the Cambridge City Council’s official Final Actions, posted by the City Clerk on the city’s meeting portal (and, for meetings before late January 2026, the Open Meeting Portal), linked from the City Council page. We check every vote against the councillors present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Councillor photos: City of Cambridge (cambridgema.gov), from the official headshots on each councillor’s City Council page. Former councillors show initials.
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