City Council — Regular Meeting, October 29, 2018

City Manager's Agenda (19)

• CMA 2018 #255Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $7,928,755 from Free Cash to the Mitigation Revenue Stabilization Fund which is a result of commitments related to zoning ordinance amendments and special permit conditionszoning
• CMA 2018 #256A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the reappointment of the following persons as members of the Arts Council Advisory Board for a term of three years, effective October 29, 2018: Lori Lander and David Danielarts
• CMA 2018 #257Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $18,000.00 from Free Cash to General Fund Public Celebrations/Arts Council Other Ordinary Maintenance account to support a partnership with the Bridge Repertory Theater to implement initiatives related to audience outreach and local community engagementarts
• CMA 2018 #258A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-95, regarding the policy on parking in front of drivewayspolice-safetytransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2018 #259A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 17-60, regarding a report on traffic direction on Kinnaird Streettransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2018 #260A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appointments of the following persons as members of the Conservation Commission for a term of three years, effective October 29, 2018: Kenneth Nugent and Kathryn Hess
• CMA 2018 #261Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $100,000 from Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund Public Works Extraordinary Expenditures Account for planting and caring for additional trees to be planted in various parks and open spaces throughout the city during this fall and the spring and fall planting season of 2019. This appropriation is also in response to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-69budgettrees📖 read
• CMA 2018 #262A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-70, regarding a report on tree removal hearingspolice-safetyschoolstrees📖 read
• CMA 2018 #263A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-09, regarding a report on repairs to Gold Star Mothers Parkschoolstrees📖 read
• CMA 2018 #264Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $67,179.02 from Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund Public Works Department Extraordinary Expenditures Account to support additional tree plantings in the Gore Street Neighborhoodtrees
• CMA 2018 #265A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Numbers 18-11 and 18-12, regarding the Cambridge Crossing sewer main on Gore Street📖 read
• CMA 2018 #266A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to new appointments of members of the Family Policy Council for a term of two years, effective October 29, 2018: Sydney Down and Kalijah Robinson
• CMA 2018 #267A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the reappointment of the following members of the Commission for Persons with Disabilities for a 2-year term, effective October 29, 2018: Gary Dmytryk and Alicia Zeh-Dean
• CMA 2018 #268Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $39,000.00 from Friends of the Community Learning Center to Department of Human Service Salary and Wages account ($35,076.00), to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($3,524.00), and to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Travel and Training account ($400.00) which will be used to fund the classes, advising and coaching of the Bridge to College Program students from July 2018 through June 2019schools
• CMA 2018 #269Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $15,000.00 from Friends of the Community Learning Center to Department of Human Service Salary and Wages account which will support English for Speakers of Other Languages classes at the Community Learning Center
• CMA 2018 #270Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $50,000.00 from the Cambridge Community Foundation to support the Agenda for Children Out of School Time Initiative to the Grant Fund Department of Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account which will be used to support a portion of one of the two new Youth Connectors funded in the FY19 City budgetbudgetschools
• CMA 2018 #271Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of funds for the College Success Program (CSI) from the Cambridge Housing Authority for $12,500.00 to the Grant Fund Human Service Department Programs Salary and Wages account which will support a portion of the salary costs for a part-time college success coach to work with students attending Bunker Hill Community Collegehousing-generalschools
• CMA 2018 #272Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of the Children’s Trust Fund grant for the Center for Families program in the amount of $62,925.00 to the Grant Fund Department of Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($62,000.00) and 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 resources
• CMA 2018 #273Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of additional funds to the Adult Basic Education (ABE) grant received from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) in the amount of $121,360.00 to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($92,765.00), and Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($28,595.00) which will be split between an ESOL Program and a Certified Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide (CNA/HHA) training program

Communications (9)

9 resident communications received for this meeting — trees (1) · transit traffic (1) · bike lanes (1) · climate (1). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (26)

• POR 2018 #244Order filing Home Rule Petition entitled "An Act Authorizing the City of Cambridge to offer Early Voting in Municipal Elections📖 read 📄 PDF
• POR 2018 #245That the City Manager is requested to work with the Department of Public Works to section off an area of the Mid-Cambridge Library lawn to dedicate to a dog park📖 read
• POR 2018 #246That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the appropriate City staff to determine whether unisex bathrooms can be installed in City Hall, or whether existing bathrooms could be modified into unisex bathrooms📖 read
• POR 2018 #247That the City Manager is requested to instruct the Director of 22 CityView to record the Human Services and Veterans Committee hearing on October 30, 2018 in its entirety so that those residents who are interested in the topic but unable to attend the hearing will be able to view the discussion
• POR 2018 #248That the City Manager is requested to make the necessary arrangements to have the clock tower bell of City Hall to ring out twenty-one times commencing at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 11, 2018 in honor of Armistice Day
• POR 2018 #249That the City Council declare that honor and gratitude be bestowed upon the Military Order of The Purple Heart, and further declare the City of Cambridge as a “Purple Heart City” in the Commonwealth of Massachusettspolice-safety
• POR 2018 #250That the City Manager is requested to consult with the Cambridge Police Department and the Department of Traffic, Parking, and Transportation to determine how to best address the uptick in TNC-associated vehicles stopping in the middle of streets and bicycle lanesbike-lanespolice-safetytransit-traffic
• POR 2018 #251That the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate staff to work with DCR and the State Police to determine what measures would best serve to prevent vehicles from blocking the Fresh Pond Mall's driveway onto Alewife Brook Parkwaypolice-safety
• POR 2018 #252That the City Manager is requested to provide an update on any current discussions or plans for extending the Alewife Greenway Bike Path from Alewife to Sherman Street
• POR 2018 #253That the City Manager and City staff be and hereby is requested to review its bidding process to improve outreach to local businesses on upcoming opportunities to contract for municipal business; to provide clarity on how to become a city vendor; to increasing access to information needed to compete for city business; and to build for accessibility at each stage of the contracting and bidding process
• POR 2018 #254That the City Manager is requested to send a letter to Enroot on behalf of the City and the Cambridge City Council encouraging them to work closely and collaboratively with their tenants during this pending transition and to consider ways in which they can maintain this building as a home for the non-profit communitytenants-renttransit-traffic
• POR 2018 #255That the City Manager is requested to direct the Traffic, Parking, and Transportation Department to schedule a walk down Rindge Avenue, covering at least from Haskell Street to Sherman Street, to analyze the congestion and intersections with interested residents to try to find mitigating solutions or to explain why mitigation may not be possibletransit-traffic
• POR 2018 #256That the City Manager is requested to confer with City staff and report back to the City Council on the status of the Cambridge Street Bicycle Safety Demonstration Project and on any efforts to assess how successful the project has been and what lessons the City may learn from the project that may help inform street allocation and design decisions elsewherebike-lanestransit-traffic📖 read
• POR 2018 #257That the City Manager is requested to confer with City staff and report back to the City Council on opportunities and plans to increase signage or other communication efforts to help ensure that all users of Brattle Street between Eliot and Mason Streets understand the cyclists may be using Brattle Street in the opposite direction of prevailing motor vehicle trafficbike-lanestransit-traffic
• POR 2018 #258That the City Manager is requested to make the necessary arrangements to have the Health and Environment Committee hearing on November 7, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. televised in its entirety so that residents who are interested in the topic of the safety of natural gas infrastructure in Cambridge will be able to view the discussion on their own time
• POR 2018 #259That the City Manager is requested to report back on the current status of the Surveillance Technology Ordinance and a date the City Council can expect an updated version of the proposed Ordinancepolice-safety
• POR 2018 #260That the City Manager is requested to report back to the City Council on the current status of any City Hall renovation plans and a timeline of planned events
• POR 2018 #261That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the appropriate City departments to use the best available salt substitutes and additives, and apply all other appropriate chloride reduction practices this winter in all areas where salt may be damaging trees, including but not limited to Linear Parktrees
• POR 2018 #262That the City Manager is requested to include protected bicycle infrastructure along the entire length of River Street as part of the FY20 River Street Redesign projectbike-lanes
• POR 2018 #263That the 500-foot buffer in the Cannabis proposed zoning amendment be reduced to 300 feet in relation to K-12 schools and public youth facilitiesschoolszoning
• POR 2018 #264That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to instruct City staff to provide zoning language for the Cannabis proposed zoning amendment to allow adult use cannabis establishments in BA-1, BA-2 and BA-3 districtszoning
• POR 2018 #265That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to instruct City staff to consider increasing the 5,000 square feet limitation for production facilities in the Cannabis proposed zoning amendmentzoning
• POR 2018 #266That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to instruct City staff to explore the possibility in the proposed Cannabis zoning amendment that adult use establishments integrate medical use establishment patientszoning
• POR 2018 #267To strike ll.803.1 (b) (i) provision from the cannabis zoning proposed amendmentlaborzoning
• POR 2018 #268That the City Manager be and hereby is directed to instruct City staff to review the possibility to include "social equity" in section 11.803.1 (b) (ii) of the proposed cannabis zoning amendmentzoning
• POR 2018 #269That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to provide the City Council with a recommendation of potential City departments that could house the work for Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Resolutions (12)

• RES 2018 #334Happy 145th Anniversary to St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
• RES 2018 #335Speedy recovery wishes to Kathleen Walcott
• RES 2018 #336Congratulations to Jennifer Gordon on receiving the Milken Educator Award
• RES 2018 #337Best wishes to Katie Belgard in her new endeavors
• RES 2018 #338Congratulations to Catherine Bohn and David Whelan on the birth of their daughter Kaia Skye
• RES 2018 #339Happy Birthday wishes to Mike Monestime
• RES 2018 #340Resolution on the death of Joseph "Joe" Hall
• RES 2018 #341Resolution on the death of Fernando Costa
• RES 2018 #342Resolution on the death of Angelina Machado
• RES 2018 #343Congratulations to Eddie Palmieri on having the jazz section of La Fabrica Central Restaurant named in his honor
• RES 2018 #344Resolution on the death of Jie "JJ" Zhao
• RES 2018 #345Best wishes to all Cambridge residents who will be celebrating Diwali

Applications & Petitions (2)

• APP 2018 #343An application was received from Martin Cafasso, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 19 Fayette 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 associationtransit-traffictreeszoning📖 read 📄 PDF
• APP 2018 #344An application was received from Daniel Brennan, requesting permission for a projecting sign at the premises numbered 3 Brattle Street approval has been received from Inspectional Services, Department of Public Works, Community Development Department and abutter📖 read

Other Business (9)

• AR-18-105Report on the feasibility of placing a condition in the public bidding documents prohibiting municipal contractors from displaying any signage other than company markers and contact information on vehicles
• AR-18-106Report on celebrating National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend in October of 2019 by scheduling a commemoration ceremony and lighting up City Hall and individual firehouses
• AR-18-107Report on prioritizing the Public Safety outreach measures in the FY20 budgetbudgetpolice-safety

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• a report from Councillor Quinton Zondervan, Chair of the Neighborhood and Long Term Planning, Public Facilities, Arts and Celebration Committee, for a public hearing held on September 20, 2018 to discuss the various events being planned for Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2019 and ways to observe the holiday in a manner that promotes the culture, history, and diversity of indigenous peoples during future years 📖 read
• a report from Councillor Dennis J. Carlone and Councillor Craig A. Kelley, Co-Chairs of the Ordinance Committee, for a public hearing held on October 2, 2018 to discuss a petition filed by the City Council to amend the zoning ordinances in Articles 2.000, 4.000, 6.000 and 11.000 and to establish provisions for Cannabis Uses 📖 read
• a communication from Councillor Mallon, transmitting notes for the first meeting of the Mayor's Arts Task Force 📖 read
• a communication from Mayor McGovern, transmitting a memorandum regarding creating a fully accessibly playground in Cambridge for children with disabilities 📖 read

Committee Reports (4)

• Health & Environment Committee hearing of 2018-09-27 — Report Accepted And Placed On
• Health & Environment Committee hearing of 2018-10-09 — Report Accepted And Placed On
• Neighborhood & Long Term Planning Committee hearing of 2018-09-20 — Report Accepted And Placed On
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2018-10-02 — Report Accepted And Placed On