City Council — Regular Meeting, November 13, 2017

City Manager's Agenda (13)

• City Manager's report2017 · #286📁 Placed on filethe appointment of the following persons as new members of the Citizens Committee on Civic Unity for a term of three years, effective November 1, 2017: Lorraine Goffe, Kelly Hassett, Laura Smith, Gustavo Payan, Tarit Rao-Chakravorti and Holly BernierSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City ManagerCMA 2017 #286
• City Manager's report2017 · #287✅ Order adopted, 7–0the appropriation of $2,274,829 from Free Cash to the Mitigation Revenue Stabilization Fund. Funds appropriated to the Mitigation Revenue Stabilization Fund will be used to fund specific projects which will require individual appropriations by the City Council for the related projects in the futureSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City ManagerCMA 2017 #287
• City Manager's report2017 · #288✅ Order adopted, 7–0the transfer of $15,000 from the General Fund Employee Benefits (Insurance) Salary and Wages account to the General Fund Library Travel and Training (Judgment and Damages) account to cover current and anticipated medical services and/or prescription reimbursement costs for the remainder of the fiscal year for Library personnel injured in the performance of their dutiesSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City ManagerCMA 2017 #288
• City Manager's report2017 · #289✅ Order adopted, 7–0the transfer of $250,000.00 from the General Fund Employee Benefits (Insurance) Salary and Wages account to the General Fund Public Works Judgment and Damages account to cover current and anticipated medical services and/or prescription reimbursement costs for the remainder of the fiscal year for Public Works personnel injured in the performance of their dutiesSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City ManagerCMA 2017 #289
• City Manager's report2017 · #290↪ Referred to the petitiona recommendation from the Planning Board to adopt the Alexandria Zoning Petition regarding Innovation Space in the PUD-3A and PUD-4C DistrictsSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Managerhousing generalzoning📖 readCMA 2017 #290
• City Manager's report2017 · #291✅ Order adopted, 7–0the appropriation of the Children’s Trust Fund grant for the Center for Families program in the amount of $62,925.00 to the Department of Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($62,000.00) and to the Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($925.00) which will be used by the Center for Families to support family programs targeting parents of children up to eight years, which include a variety of family support and parent education programs and resourcesSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City ManagerCMA 2017 #291
• City Manager's report2017 · #292✅ Order adopted, 7–0the appropriation of the Project Bread Food Pantry grant received from the Project Bread organization for $2,000.00 to the Grant Fund Human Services Other Ordinary Maintenance account which will allow the Cambridge Senior Center Food Pantry 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 2017 #292
• City Manager's report2017 · #293✅ Order adopted, 7–0the appropriation of the Agenda for Children’s Talk and Read grant in the amount of $2,690.00 received from the Cambridge Public Health Department to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($1,150.00) and to the Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($1,540.00) which will be used for the Agenda for Children’s Talk and Read programSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City ManagerCMA 2017 #293
• City Manager's report2017 · #295↪ Referred backAwaiting Report Item Number 17-60, regarding a report on the feasibility of making the section of Kinnaird Street between River Street and Western Avenue a one-waySubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City ManagerCMA 2017 #295
• City Manager's report2017 · #296📁 Placed on fileAwaiting Report Item Number 16-52 regarding the City's use of push button caution lights at crosswalks and to determine any decrease in pedestrian legal rights should they be hit; and Awaiting Report Item Number 16-66, regarding a report on how traffic laws pertaining to crosswalks are currently enforced throughout the City and whether there can be stricter laws to ultimately increase pedestrian safetySubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Managertransit traffic📖 readCMA 2017 #296
• City Manager's report2017 · #297↪ Referred backAwaiting Report Item Number 17-101, regarding a report on the feasibility of reducing the speed limit on Magazine Street as well as other traffic calming measuresSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Managertransit traffic📖 readCMA 2017 #297
• City Manager's report2017 · #298📁 Placed on fileAwaiting Report Item Number 17-90, regarding a report on policies regarding urban wildlife managementSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Managerhomelessness📖 readCMA 2017 #298
• City Manager's report2017 · #299📁 Placed on fileAwaiting Report Item Number 16-86, regarding a report on which public campaign finance options are legal for municipal elections in Cambridge; and Awaiting Report Item Number 17-84, regarding potential plans and options, responsive to community concerns, for creating a program of tax revenue financing for candidates running for City Council and School Committee in the City of CambridgeSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Managerschools📖 read CMA 2017 #299

Communications (5)

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

Policy Orders (5)

• Policy order2017 · #301✅ Order adoptedAsks the City Manager to work with the relevant City departments and report back to the City Council with an update on the City’s plans to expand the curbside composting program citywideCouncil requestPOR 2017 #301
• Policy order2017 · #302✅ Order adoptedCancel the Regular City Council Meeting scheduled for Monday, November 27, 2017POR 2017 #302
• Policy order2017 · #303✅ Order adoptedAsks the City Manager to work with the relevant City departments and report back to the City Council if there is anything further the City can do to better educate parents, coaches, referees, and players about concussions and how to handle athletes if they suspect there is a concussionCouncil requestPOR 2017 #303
• Policy order2017 · #304✅ Order adoptedAsks the City Manager to work with the relevant City departments to determine the feasibility on installing stretching, body weight, and low-impact fitness equipment at various parks throughout the City and report back to the City CouncilCouncil requestPOR 2017 #304
• Policy order2017 · #305✅ Order adoptedAsks the City Manager to confer with the appropriate City departments with the view in mind of exploring the feasibility of implementing The Sprint 1 Million Project and report back to the Council by the end of City Council term with an updateCouncil requestPOR 2017 #305

Resolutions (8)

• Resolution2017 · #475✅ Order adoptedCity Council hereby goes on record in congratulating Gladys “Pebble” Gifford for receiving the 2017 Jane Thompson AwardCouncil orderRES 2017 #475
• Resolution2017 · #476✅ Order adoptedRetirement of Kevin McCormick from the Community Development DepartmentRES 2017 #476
• Resolution2017 · #477✅ Order adoptedThe City Council supports local citizens who work to enrich the Massachusetts community through service to the elderly and thank you Iain HamiltonRES 2017 #477
• Resolution2017 · #478✅ Order adoptedCongratulations to Gilda Nogueira on being named President of the Federal Reserve Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council for the 2018 termRES 2017 #478
• Resolution2017 · #479✅ Order adoptedResolution on the death of John "Jackie" H. BotehloRES 2017 #479
• Resolution2017 · #480✅ Order adoptedResolution on the death of Dominic DeFranciscoRES 2017 #480
• Resolution2017 · #481✅ Order adoptedResolution on the death of Ronald "Ronnie" Owens JrRES 2017 #481
• Resolution2017 · #482✅ Order adoptedResolution on the death of Shawn Gregory "Shiz" ChambersRES 2017 #482

Other Business (2)

• Awaiting report2017 · #117✅ Report received and acceptedReport on the elevator breakdowns at Millers River Apartments as well as the reasons for the continual breakdowns of these elevatorsAR-17-117

• CRT 2017 #55 — a report from Councillor Dennis J. Carlone and Councillor Leland Cheung, Co-Chairs of the Ordinance Committee, for a public hearing held on October 12, 2017 to discuss a Zoning Petition filed by Christopher D. Smith, et al., to create a new Section 13.913 Graduate Student Housing Production Requirement. This petition would require new graduate housing to be built in conjunction with the development of commercial uses in the proposed Planned Unit Development 7 District as well as a phasing plan to implement graduate housing development 📖 read