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May 20, 2024
5 recorded votes, 5 with disagreement.
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Present: Marc McGovern, Patricia Nolan, Joan Pickett, Sumbul Siddiqui, Denise Simmons, Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Paul Toner, Ayesha Wilson
Absent: Burhan Azeem
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City Manager's Agenda · CMA 2024 #107
Refer: A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a report submitted by the Planning Board regarding the Family Definition Zoning Petition.
REFERRED TO ORDINANCE COMMITTEE WITH ATTACHMENTS – FINALIZED THROUGH RECONSIDERATION [8-0-0-1]
Burhan Azeem is listed as absent for this vote.
From the minutes
“RESULT: REFERRED TO ORDINANCE COMMITTEE WITH ATTACHMENTS – FINALIZED THROUGH RECONSIDERATION [8-0-0-1] YEAS: Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Pickett, Councillor Siddiqui, Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Wilson, Mayor Simmons ABSENT: Councillor Azeem.”
City Manager's Agenda · CMA 2024 #108
Place on file: A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a report submitted by the Planning Board regarding the Khalida Griffin-Sheperd, et al. Zoning Petition.
PLACED ON FILE [8-0-0-1]
Burhan Azeem is listed as absent for this vote.
From the minutes
“RESULT: PLACED ON FILE [8-0-0-1] YEAS: Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Pickett, Councillor Siddiqui, Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Wilson, Mayor Simmons ABSENT: Councillor Azeem.”
City Manager's Agenda · CMA 2024 #109
Pass to a second reading: Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation and authorization of $15,000,000 to provide additional funds for the construction...
PASSED TO A SECOND READING [7-0-1-1] CITY COUNCIL VOTED TO ADOPT THE APPROPRIATION AND A PREREQUISITE TO ADOPTION IS THAT IT BE PUBLISHED ONCE IN FULL IN AT LEAST ONE NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY AT LEAST 10 DAYS BEFORE ITS FINAL PASSAGE PURSUANT TO CAMBRIDGE MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 1.12.030(B), SO THE RESULT WAS THE APPROPRIATION WAS PASSED TO A SECOND READING.
Yes: McGovern, Nolan, Pickett, Simmons, Sobrinho-Wheeler, Toner, WilsonAbstained: SiddiquiBurhan Azeem is listed as absent for this vote.
From the minutes
“RESULT: PASSED TO A SECOND READING [7-0-1-1] CITY COUNCIL VOTED TO ADOPT THE APPROPRIATION AND A PREREQUISITE TO ADOPTION IS THAT IT BE PUBLISHED ONCE IN FULL IN AT LEAST ONE NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY AT LEAST 10 DAYS BEFORE ITS FINAL PASSAGE PURSUANT TO CAMBRIDGE MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 1.12.030(B), SO THE RESULT WAS THE APPROPRIATION WAS PASSED TO A SECOND READING. YEAS: Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Pickett, Councillor Sobrinho- Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Wilson, Mayor Simmons ABSENT: Councillor Azeem PRESENT: Councillor Siddiqui.”
Policy Order And Resolution List · POR 2024 #66
That the City Manager is requested to work with relevant City departments and the Cambridge Arts Council to consider whether Cambridge could facilitate a porchfest event.
ORDER ADOPTED
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Resolutions
Resolutions adopted together (8 resolutions, RES 2024 #105 to RES 2024 #112)
ORDER ADOPTED
The Final Actions record the same result and vote for each of these 8 resolutions (RES 2024 #105, RES 2024 #106, RES 2024 #107, RES 2024 #108, RES 2024 #109, RES 2024 #110, RES 2024 #111, RES 2024 #112); 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.
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