City Council Special Meeting, August 10, 2015

• Policy orderO-1Cambridge spends approximately $10,500,000 annually on Charter School tuition; andCouncillor Kelley, Councillor Cheung, Councillor McGovern, Councillor SimmonsO-1
• Policy orderO-1City Council amend Policy Order #11 of June 22, 2015 attached.Council orderO-1
• Policy orderO-2Asks the City Manager to consult with the appropriate City personnel to determine the effectiveness of the policy of ticketing and towing vehicles that obstruct street cleaning, to determine whether modifying this policy to exclude towing vehicles would have a negative impact on the City's ability to maintain clean streets.Council requestO-2
• Policy orderO-3Asks the City Manager to reach out to Easton Coach, Peter Pan, and Brush Hill Tours to relay the concerns raised regarding tour buses operating on restricted streets and to determine what actions should be taken against these companies and to determine how to enhance efforts to prevent tour buses from parking in multiple metered spaces in Harvard Square.Council requestO-3
• Policy orderO-4Asks the City Manager to consult with the Community Development Department and other appropriate City personnel to compile a report of the housing and financial assistance options the City and its community partners offer to seniors living on fixed incomes in order to help them remain housed in their current units and to estimate how many seniors on fixed incomes are in danger of being priced out of their units in the coming half-decade to determine whether additional City resources are needed to assist these seniors.Council requestO-4
• Policy orderO-5Executive Assistant to the City Council confer with the Dedication Committee to consider the request to dedicate a street corner in honor of Ed Chase.Council orderO-5
• Policy orderO-6City Council go on record commending the group "No Boston Olympics" on their successful fight against Boston 2024's flawed Olympics bid.Council orderO-6
• Policy orderO-7City Manager consult with the Community Development Department and other appropriate City personnel to determine what kinds of incentives could be provided to landlords who choose to refrain from increasing the rents on their tenants, and to report back to the City Council in a timely manner.Council orderO-7
• Policy orderO-8City Manager report back to the City Council on the diversity of his direct reports and the steps he has taken to reflect Cambridge's diversity in his hiring practices, specifically in management positions, during his term.Council orderO-8
• Policy orderO-9City Manager implement an affordable municipal identification card program for the City of Cambridge.Council orderO-9
• Policy orderO-10City Manager develop a program to offer home electricity monitors to residents at cost, in a program similar to the distribution of rain barrels through the Department of Public Works.Council orderO-10
• Policy orderO-11known to exist, not yet recoveredO-11
• Policy orderO-12Air traffic over Cambridge has increased considerably in recent months; andCouncillor Kelley, Councillor CheungO-12
• Policy orderO-13known to exist, not yet recoveredO-13
• Policy orderO-14known to exist, not yet recoveredO-14
• Policy orderO-15A number of taxi drivers recently conducted a one-day work stoppage as a means of calling attention to the need for regulation of "ride-sharing" companies like Uber and Lyft, and the need to create a level playing field for any locally-operating businesses that provide personal transportation services for a fee; andCouncillor Simmons, Vice Mayor BenzanO-15
• Policy orderO-15City Council hereby goes on record urging Governor Baker and the State Legislature to move expeditiously in issuing guidelines and regulations that will ensure that taxi services and ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft are able to operate on a fair and even plane throughout the Commonwealth.Council orderO-15
• Policy orderO-16known to exist, not yet recoveredO-16
• Policy orderO-17City Manager confer with the Acting Assistant City Manager for Community Development with a mind towards informing new property owners of the desire, based on planning studies, to expand Ahern Field and for planning staff to keep these desires in mind as a vision for this site is developed by the owners, and report back to the City Council.Council orderO-17
• Policy orderO-18The City of Cambridge has a long history of supporting local businesses, such as taxicabs, which are motor vehicles licensed by the City of Cambridge to provide safe transportation; andVice Mayor Benzan, Councillor CheungO-18
• Policy orderO-19City Council goes on record refiling as of September 16, 2015, the attached proposed amendment to the zoning ordinance to amend Article 6.000 of the zoning ordinance to create a new section 6.24 Carsharing Provisions which will create a definition and general provisions for carsharing and allow limited use of parking spaces for carsharing as a means to provide mobility options for Cambridge residents, employees and visitors.Council orderO-19
• Policy orderO-20known to exist, not yet recoveredO-20
• Policy orderO-21known to exist, not yet recoveredO-21
• Policy orderO-22known to exist, not yet recoveredO-22
• Policy orderO-23known to exist, not yet recoveredO-23
• Policy orderO-24Disruptive technologies and innovations in the transit sector have given way to new forms of unregulated passenger transit throughout the City of Cambridge and Commonwealth of Massachusetts; andCouncillor MazenO-24
• Policy orderO-25known to exist, not yet recoveredO-25
• Policy orderO-26Asks the City Manager to direct the City Solicitor to report back to the Housing Committee on any legal protections the City can enact, either through Ordinance, Home Rule Petition or additional avenues, to protect tenants from dramatic rent increases and/or unfair evictions.Council requestO-26
• Policy orderO-27known to exist, not yet recoveredO-27
• Policy orderO-28known to exist, not yet recoveredO-28
• Policy orderO-29Asks the City Manager to direct the Affordable Housing Trust to discuss the feasibility of having the City purchase the buildings on Harvard Street and Harding Street that have recently become the focus of concern before the City Council and report back to the City Council in a timely manner.Council requestO-29
• Policy orderO-30known to exist, not yet recoveredO-30
• Policy orderO-31Asks the City Manager to instruct Community Development Department to report back on the following recommendations: automatic rate increase of $ 1 + CPI for three years and that the increase continue while the next Nexus Study is conducted; large renovation projects be included; and percentage ratio be considered for middle income housing.Council requestO-31
• Policy orderO-32Open Data Ordinance be referred back to the full City Council with a favorable recommendation and that the Open Data Review Board (ODRB) contain more than three members of the public selected by the City Manager.Council orderO-32

• Committee reportCR-1known to exist, not yet recoveredCR-1
• Committee reportCR-2Councillor Simmons Stated That, As Chair Of The Housing Committee And In Agreeance With The Housing Committee: The purpose of the hearing was to discuss whether there are measures the City and local housing agencies and advocates can take to assist the soon to be displaced tenants of 295 Harvard Street.CR-2

The roll calls of this meeting, named member by member, from the city's own minutes, recovered from the Internet Archive after the city removed them. Each reconciles against the clerk's printed tally.

• ORDER FOR AGENDA # 5
  9–0Benzan, Carlone, Cheung, Kelley, Mazen, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, MaherAdopted minutes
• ORDER FOR AGENDA #24
  9–0Benzan, Carlone, Cheung, Kelley, Mazen, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, MaherAdopted minutes
• rt this order. He thinks that the system works well as it is. On this question Mayor Maher
  6–3Benzan, Cheung, Kelley, Mazen, McGovern, SimmonsCarlone, Toomey, MaherAdopted minutes
• CR-7
  8–0Carlone, Cheung, Kelley, Mazen, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, Maher minutes