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July 21, 2025
4 recorded votes, 4 with disagreement.
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Present: Burhan Azeem, Marc McGovern, Patricia Nolan, Denise Simmons, Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Paul Toner, Ayesha Wilson
Absent: Sumbul Siddiqui, Catherine Zusy
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COF 2025 #102
Place on file: A communication was received from Mayor E. Denise Simmons, transmitting Call For Emergency Special Meeting on July 21, 2025.
CMA PLACED ON FILE [7-0-2]
Sumbul Siddiqui and Catherine Zusy are listed as absent for this vote.
From the minutes
“RESULT: CMA PLACED ON FILE [7-0-2] YEAS: Councillor Azeem, Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Sobrinho- Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Wilson, Mayor Simmons ABSENT: Councillor Siddiqui, Councillor Zusy.”
CMA 2025 #188
CITY MANAGER'S AGENDA Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of of Four-Million-Three-Hundred-Thousand dollars and no cents ($4,300,000.00), from...
APPROPRIATION ORDER ADOPTED AND CMA PLACED ON FILE [7-0-2]
Sumbul Siddiqui and Catherine Zusy are listed as absent for this vote.
From the minutes
“RESULT: APPROPRIATION ORDER ADOPTED AND CMA PLACED ON FILE [7-0-2] YEAS: Councillor Azeem, Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Sobrinho- Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Wilson, Mayor Simmons ABSENT: Councillor Siddiqui, Councillor Zusy.”
CMA 2025 #189
Place on file: A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a request to move to Executive Session (if necessary) to discuss the litigation Said S. Abuzahra, Trustee of...
CMA PLACED ON FILE [7-0-2]
Sumbul Siddiqui and Catherine Zusy are listed as absent for this vote.
From the minutes
“RESULT: CMA PLACED ON FILE [7-0-2] YEAS: Councillor Azeem, Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Sobrinho- Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Wilson, Mayor Simmons ABSENT: Councillor Siddiqui, Councillor Zusy.”
Reconsider: ALL AGENDA ITEMS FINALIZED IN COUNCIL JULY 21, 2025
RECONSIDERATION FILED [7-0-2]
The Final Actions' count reads 7-0-2, but the names listed under it show 0 yes, 7 no, 2 absent. Because the two do not agree, MassVoter shows the count of the names only and will ask the City Clerk. The Final Actions write the result as "RECONSIDERATION FILED [7-0-2]" with more no votes than yes (0-7), so it is shown as failed.
From the minutes
“RESULT: RECONSIDERATION FILED [7-0-2] NAYS: Councillor Azeem, Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Sobrinho- Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Wilson, Mayor Simmons ABSENT: Councillor Siddiqui, Councillor Zusy.”
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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