City Council — Regular Meeting, December 5, 2016

City Manager's Agenda (9)

• City Manager's report2016 · #326✅ Order adopted, 8–0the appropriation of a grant from the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency (MassHousing) in the amount of $3,000 to the Grant Fund Human Services Other Ordinary Maintenance account which will be used to provide services in relation to hoarding, including training of service providers, funding assistance for clean-ups, establishing and supporting hoarding related peer led support groups, and other hoarding related education and trainingSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Managerhousing generalCMA 2016 #326
• City Manager's report2016 · #327✅ Order adopted, 8–0the appropriation of the Friends of the Community Learning Center (CLC) grant in the amount of $23,700 to the Grant Fund Human Services Salary and Wages account ($21,825) and to the Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($1,875) from the Jacobs Foundation to provide support for Bridge Program advising, coaching and mentoring, advising for the ESOL/Certified Nursing Assistant Program, and education and career advising for other CLC studentsSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City ManagerschoolsCMA 2016 #327
• City Manager's report2016 · #328✅ Order adopted, 8–0the appropriation of a grant from the Jacob’s Foundation for $7,300 to the Grant Fund Human Services Salary and Wages account which will be used to support the salary costs of a part-time Cambridge Employment Program (CEP) Career Counselor who will provide services exclusively to CLC students on siteSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City ManagerschoolsCMA 2016 #328
• City Manager's report2016 · #329✅ Order adopted, 8–0the appropriation of the Project Bread Food Pantry grant received from the Project Bread organization for $2,000 to the Grant Fund Human Services Other Ordinary Maintenance account which were awarded to the Cambridge Senior Center Food Pantry by Project Bread to pay for purchases at the Greater Boston Food Bank, and for other food purchases for the Senior Food PantrySubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City ManagerCMA 2016 #329
• City Manager's report2016 · #330↪ Referredproposed amendments to Chapter 2.125 of the Cambridge Municipal Code of the GLBT Commission by changing the name of the Cambridge Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Commission to the Cambridge Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Plus CommissionSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager📖 read CMA 2016 #330
• City Manager's report2016 · #331✅ Order adopted, 8–0that the City Council adopt an order giving the City of Cambridge permission to apply for, accept and expend state grant funds for Valente Branch Library, which is included in the construction of the King Open and Cambridge Street Upper Schools & Community Complex projectSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Managerschools📖 read CMA 2016 #331
• City Manager's report2016 · #332📁 Placed on fileAwaiting Report Item Number 16-58, regarding a report on outreach to small business ownersSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager📖 readCMA 2016 #332
• City Manager's report2016 · #333📁 Placed on fileAwaiting Report Item Number 16-96, regarding a report on implementing a pay by phone pay by app parking systemSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Managertransit traffic📖 readCMA 2016 #333
• City Manager's report2016 · #334📁 Placed on fileAwaiting Report Item Number 16-98, regarding a report on retaining on-street bicycle corrals in place all yearSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Managerbike lanesschoolstransit traffic📖 readCMA 2016 #334

Communications (5)

5 resident communications received for this meeting — affordable housing (1) · housing general (1) · zoning (1) · homelessness (1) · schools (1). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (3)

• Policy order2016 · #315✅ Order adoptedAsks the City Manager to report back to the City Council with suggested changes to Cambridge’s policy regarding advertising revenue that could help support the continuation and expansion of Hubway in the City of CambridgeCouncil requestPOR 2016 #315
• Policy order2016 · #316✅ Order adoptedAsks the City Manager to direct with the appropriate City departments to televise and record the Economic Development and University Relations Committee hearing scheduled for December 13, 2016Council requestPOR 2016 #316
• Policy order2016 · #317✅ Order adoptedAsks the City Manager to make the appropriate staff available to assist the Mayor’s Office in facilitating a community conversation about the roles and intersection of race, class, gender, and culture in Cambridge within the first quarter of 2017Council requestPOR 2016 #317

Resolutions (9)

• Resolution2016 · #383✅ Order adoptedCongratulation to Breakthrough Greater Boston on its 9th annual Breakthroughs in Education lecture seriesRES 2016 #383
• Resolution2016 · #384✅ Order adoptedResolution on the death of John F. ConroyRES 2016 #384
• Resolution2016 · #385✅ Order adoptedThanks to MIT, Google, Boston Properties, the City’s Information Technology Department, the Cambridge Housing Authority, and Alexandria Real Estate Equities for their collaborative work in implementing "Kendall Wi-Fi."housing generalRES 2016 #385
• Resolution2016 · #386✅ Order adoptedCongratulations to Rebecca Berry on her election as secretary of the Boston Society of ArchitectsRES 2016 #386
• Resolution2016 · #387✅ Order adoptedCongratulations to Doctors Gordon Weir and Susan Bonner-Weir for receiving Joslin Diabetes Center's 2016 Lifetime Achievement AwardRES 2016 #387
• Resolution2016 · #388✅ Order adoptedCongratulations to DigitalOcean on their decision to join the Cambridge communityRES 2016 #388
• Resolution2016 · #389✅ Order adoptedRetirement of Brad Gerratt from the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Departmenttransit trafficRES 2016 #389
• Resolution2016 · #390✅ Order adoptedCongratulations to Shire on their plans to open a rare disease innovation hub in Kendall SquareRES 2016 #390
• Resolution2016 · #391✅ Order adoptedResolution on the death of Melvin L. SaundersRES 2016 #391

Applications & Petitions (5)

• Application / petition2016 · #96✅ Order adopteda projecting sign at the premises numbered 114 Mount Auburn Street. Approval has been received from Inspectional Services, Department of Public Works, Community Development Department, Historical Commission and abuttersApplication from President & Fellows of Harvard📖 readAPP 2016 #96
• Application / petition2016 · #97✅ Order adopteda curb cut at the premises numbered 23 Hawthorn Street; said petition has received approval from Inspectional Services, Traffic, Parking and Transportation, Historical Commission and Public Works. Response has been received from the neighborhood associationApplication from 23 Hawthorn Street Nominee Trusttransit traffic📖 readAPP 2016 #97
• Application / petition2016 · #98✅ Order adoptedtwo new curb cuts and two relocated curb cuts at the premises numbered 25 Hayward Street; said petition has received approval from Inspectional Services, Traffic, Parking and Transportation, Historical Commission and Public Works. No neighborhood association for this areaApplication from The Massachusetts Institute of Technologytransit traffic📖 readAPP 2016 #98
• Application / petition2016 · #99✅ Order adoptedtwo projecting blade signs at the premises numbered 8 Brattle Street. Approval has been received from Inspectional Services, Department of Public Works, Community Development Department, Historical Commission and abuttersApplication from Origins📖 readAPP 2016 #99
• Application / petition2016 · #100✅ Order adopteda projecting blade sign and two awnings at the premises numbered 564 Massachusetts Avenue. Approval has been received from Inspectional Services, Department of Public Works, Community Development Department and abuttersApplication from Target📖 readAPP 2016 #100

Other Business (7)

• Awaiting report2016 · #96✅ Report received and acceptedReport on the total cost of implementing a pay by phone/ pay by app parking system in the Citytransit trafficAR-16-96
• Awaiting report2016 · #97✅ Report received and acceptedReport on which City programs and projects, including School Department, Cambridge Housing Authority and the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority, rely on the support of federal funds and how changes in federal funds could affect the viability of these programshousing generalschoolsAR-16-97
• Awaiting report2016 · #98✅ Report received and acceptedReport the possibility of keeping Cambridge’s on-street bike corrals in place year round, even if that means altering snow removal procedures or impacting on-street parking, with the intent of keeping the bike corrals in place all year roundtransit trafficAR-16-98
• Awaiting report2016 · #99✅ Report received and acceptedReport to instruct the Law Department, Community Development Department, License Commission and the Health Department to report back to the City Council regarding Medical Marijuana DispensariesAR-16-99

• CRT 2016 #65 — a report from Timothy J. Toomey, Jr., Chair of the Transportation and Public Utilities Committee, for a public hearing held on November 16, 2016 to discuss gradually increasing the parking permit fee and to consider other improvements to the program to help fund the City’s budget towards reducing vehicle miles traveled and to promote alternative forms of transportation 📖 read
• CRT 2016 #66 — a report from Councillor Dennis J. Carlone and Councillor Leland Cheung, Co-Chairs of the Ordinance Committee, for a public hearing held on October 27, 2016 to discuss a zoning petition by the City Council to amend four sections in Article 19.000 of the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Cambridge 📖 read
• CRT 2016 #67 — a report from Councillor Dennis J. Carlone and Councillor Leland Cheung, Co-Chairs of the Ordinance Committee, for a public hearing held on October 27, 2016 to discuss a proposed amendment to the Municipal Code in Title 15 entitled “Buildings and Construction” by adding a new Chapter 15.22 entitled “Outdoor Lighting.” 📖 read