City Council Regular Meeting, October 19, 2015

• Policy orderO-1Asks the City Manager to confer with the relevant City departments and the City of Cambridge Retirement Board and report back on the feasibility of allowing employees to opt in to a program that would see a percentage of their mandatory retirement deduction instead be directed towards payment of student loans.Council requestO-1
• Policy orderO-2Asks the City Manager to confer with relevant City departments to draft a Home Rule petition that would allow Cambridge to establish a Job Creation and Training linkage fee to be managed by a Cambridge Jobs Trust.Council requestO-2
• Policy orderO-3known to exist, not yet recoveredO-3
• Policy orderO-4known to exist, not yet recoveredO-4
• Policy orderO-5known to exist, not yet recoveredO-5
• Policy orderO-6known to exist, not yet recoveredO-6
• Policy orderO-7City Council go on record commending the Divest Harvard Alumni on their demonstrative efforts encouraging divestment from fossil fuels.Council orderO-7
• Policy orderO-8known to exist, not yet recoveredO-8
• Policy orderO-9Asks the City Manager to confer with the appropriate department heads to review the planning work done thus far on the Alewife bridge/platform project and to review the next steps the City can take to see the bridge constructed.Council requestO-9
• Policy orderO-10Asks the City Manager to confer with the appropriate departments as to the feasibility of extending the 15% discount to condominium accounts where a meter serves one or more units and where all owners are seniors who pay their own water bills into the water and sewer discount program.Council requestO-10
• Policy orderO-11Asks the City Manager to direct the Community Development Department to expedite their efforts on crafting an amendment that would not treat reasonably sized shipping container and rooftop farms as agricultural uses when they are being used as an accessory to the principal use of a business.Council requestO-11
• Policy orderO-12Asks the City Manager to report back to the City Council on the progress of contract negotiations with the Police and Fire Unions.Council requestO-12
• Policy orderO-13known to exist, not yet recoveredO-13
• Policy orderO-14known to exist, not yet recoveredO-14
• Policy orderO-15known to exist, not yet recoveredO-15
• Policy orderO-16known to exist, not yet recoveredO-16
• Policy orderO-17Asks the City Manager to confer with the Assistant City Manager or Community Development and appropriate shuttle operators about operating smaller shuttle service vehicles during off-peak hours.Council requestO-17
• Policy orderO-18Asks the City Manager to work with the Community Development Department and other relevant departments to draft a zoning ordinance that would see the installation of solar panels be as of right in all zoning districts in the City.Council requestO-18
• Policy orderO-19Asks the City Manager to confer with the Commissioner of Public Works to assess all the catch basins along Cambridge Street to be certain vents and traps are functioning correctly and determine if any need to be replaced or repaired and consider long-term fixes to the foul odor issues.Council requestO-19
• Policy orderO-20known to exist, not yet recoveredO-20
• Policy orderO-21known to exist, not yet recoveredO-21
• Policy orderO-22City Manager confer with the Director of Traffic, Parking and Transportation to determine if Cambridge can improve pedestrian safety at problematic intersection by incorporating illuminated pedestrian crossing signs similar to recently installed signage in the Union Square area of Somerville and to report back to the City Council.Council orderO-22
• Policy orderO-23known to exist, not yet recoveredO-23
• Policy orderO-24known to exist, not yet recoveredO-24
• Policy orderO-25known to exist, not yet recoveredO-25
• Policy orderO-26known to exist, not yet recoveredO-26
• Policy orderO-27known to exist, not yet recoveredO-27
• Policy orderO-28known to exist, not yet recoveredO-28
• Policy orderO-29known to exist, not yet recoveredO-29
• Policy orderO-30Asks the City Manager to confer with the Police Commissioner to report back on current enforcement of Section 5.20.020 of the Public Transportation Ordinance and what potential obstacles there are to enforcement.Councillor McGovernO-30
• Policy orderO-31Asks the City Manager to report back to the City Council on whether more resources are needed to maintain the tree canopy, such as the need for an additional water truck and whether mulch and watering cans can be made available to residents for use in tree wells to keep down the weeds and addressing other issues and ideas raised at the Health & Environment hearing held on September 16, 2015.Council requestO-31

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.

• ORDINANCE # 1372
  9–0Benzan, Carlone, Cheung, Kelley, Mazen, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, Maher minutes
• ORDER FOR AGENDA # 5
  9–0Benzan, Carlone, Cheung, Kelley, Mazen, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, MaherAdopted minutes
• ORDER FOR AGENDA # 6
  9–0Benzan, Carlone, Cheung, Kelley, Mazen, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, MaherAdopted minutes
• ORDER FOR AGENDA # 14
  9–0Benzan, Carlone, Cheung, Kelley, Mazen, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, MaherAdopted minutes
• AGENDA # 25A
  9–0Benzan, Carlone, Cheung, Kelley, Mazen, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, MaherAdopted minutes
• AGENDA # 25B
  9–0Benzan, Carlone, Cheung, Kelley, Mazen, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, MaherAdopted minutes
• O-24
  8–1Benzan, Carlone, Cheung, Mazen, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, MaherKelleyAdopted minutes
• ORDER FOR CALENDAR # 1
  6–1Benzan, Cheung, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, MaherKelley minutes
• ORDINANCE 1373
  9–0Benzan, Carlone, Cheung, Kelley, Mazen, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, Maher minutes
• ORDINANCE # 1374
  9–0Benzan, Carlone, Cheung, Kelley, Mazen, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, Maher minutes
• e on approving the response contained in Communications and Reports from City Officers # 1
  7–1Benzan, Cheung, Kelley, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, MaherMazen minutes
• O-15
  9–0Benzan, Carlone, Cheung, Kelley, Mazen, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, MaherTabled minutes
• O-32
  6–3Carlone, Mazen, McGovern, Simmons, Toomey, MaherBenzan, Cheung, Kelley minutes
• O-22
  3–6Mazen, Toomey, MaherBenzan, Carlone, Cheung, Kelley, McGovern, Simmons minutes