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July 23, 2025
4 recorded votes, 2 with disagreement.
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Present: Burhan Azeem, Marc McGovern, Patricia Nolan, Sumbul Siddiqui, Denise Simmons, Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Paul Toner, Ayesha Wilson, Catherine Zusy
Absent: None
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COF 2025 #101
Place on file: THE CITY COUNCIL WILL HOLD A SPECIAL MEETING ON WEDNESDAY JULY 23, 2025, AT 2:00 P.M. THE PURPOSE OF THIS AND THE ACTIONS THE CITY IS TAKING TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH AND PUBLIC...
PLACED ON FILE [9-0-0]
From the minutes
“RESULT: PLACED ON FILE [9-0-0] YEAS: Councillor Azeem, Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Siddiqui, Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Wilson, Councillor Zusy, Mayor Simmons.”
City Manager's Agenda · CMA 2025 #186
Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of of $20,000,000 from the General Fund Employee Benefits Department Salary and Wages account to the...
APPROPRIATION ORDER ADOPTED AND CMA PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1]
Yes: Azeem, McGovern, Nolan, Siddiqui, Simmons, Sobrinho-Wheeler, Toner, ZusyAyesha Wilson is listed as absent for this vote.
From the minutes
“RESULT: APPROPRIATION ORDER ADOPTED AND CMA PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1] YEAS: Councillor Azeem, Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Siddiqui, Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Zusy, Mayor Simmons ABSENT: Councillor Wilson.”
City Manager's Agenda · CMA 2025 #187
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 litigation regarding 221 Mount Auburn Street...
PLACED ON FILE [9-0-0]
From the minutes
“RESULT: PLACED ON FILE [9-0-0] YEAS: Councillor Azeem, Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Siddiqui, Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, Councillor Toner, Councillor Wilson, Councillor Zusy, Mayor Simmons.”
City Manager's Agenda
RECONSIDERATION FILED IN COUNCIL JULY 23, 2025
APPROPRIATION ORDER ADOPTED AND CMA PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1]
The Final Actions' count reads 8-0-1, but the names listed under it show 0 yes, 8 no, 1 absent. Because the two do not agree, the names also contradict the written result, so MassVoter shows the result only and will ask the City Clerk.
From the minutes
“RESULT: APPROPRIATION ORDER ADOPTED AND CMA PLACED ON FILE [8-0-1] NAYS: Councillor Azeem, Vice Mayor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Siddiqui, Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, Councillor Wilson, Councillor Zusy, Mayor Simmons ABSENT: Councillor Toner.”
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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