City Council — Regular Meeting, January 7, 2019

City Manager's Agenda (4)

• CMA 2019 #2Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of a State Executive Office of Public Safety Grant in the amount of $10,386 to the Grant Fund Fire Salary and Wages account ($8,286), Grant Fund Fire Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($1,800), and the Grant Fund Fire Travel and Training account ($300) to provide funds to continue the Student Awareness of Fire Education (SAFE) Programpolice-safety
• CMA 2019 #1Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of a State Executive Office of Public Safety Grant in the amount of $3,200 to the Grant Fund Fire Salary and Wages account ($2,500), and the Grant Fund Fire Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($700), to provide funds for the Senior SAFE Programpolice-safety
• CMA 2019 #3Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of a Hazardous Material Emergency Preparedness (HMEP) Grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the amount of $1,750 to the Grant Fund Fire Travel and Training account
• CMA 2019 #4Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the transfer of $50,000 from the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Fund Salary and Wages account to the General Fund Traffic, Parking and Transportation 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 Traffic and Parking personnel injured in the performance of their dutiestransit-traffic

Communications (32)

32 resident communications received for this meeting — trees (3) · arts (3) · police safety (1) · homelessness (1) · bike lanes (1). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (14)

• POR 2019 #1Creating Gender X on Cambridge Birth Certificates📖 read
• POR 2019 #2That the Ordinance Committee hearing on Tree Protections scheduled for January 9, 2019 be televisedtrees
• POR 2019 #3By adding a joint City Council/School Committee Roundtable schedule for February 12, 2019 at 5:30pm in the Sullivan Chamber to conduct a preliminary discussion on the FY20 School Budgetbudgetschools
• POR 2019 #4Accessing revenue generated from new short-term rental legislation
• POR 2019 #5That the City Manager work with the Cambridge Arts Council and Department of Finance to allocate a percentage of hotel/motel tax revenue and adult use cannabis tax revenue to the arts in the FY20 budgetartsbudget
• POR 2019 #6That the City Manager work with the Cambridge Arts Council, Traffic and Parking Department, Community Development Department, and Central Square Advisory Committee to establish the Central Square Improvement Fund and allocate no less than 25% of funds generated to the artsartstransit-trafficzoning📖 read
• POR 2019 #7That the City Manager work with the Cambridge Arts Council and Community Development Department to make the appropriate updates to the City's 1% for arts ordinanceartsschools📖 read
• POR 2019 #8Support Green New Deal
• POR 2019 #9Water Mains Age and Maintenance Update
• POR 2019 #10City Manager is requested to instruct the City Solicitor to prepare a draft Home Rule petition for a Real Estate Transfer feeaffordable-housingbudgethousing-general📖 read
• POR 2019 #11Joint City Council/School Committee Roundtable for February 26, 2019 on the Tobin/VLUS school designschools
• POR 2019 #12Amendment to the Municipal Code to create a new Chapter entitled "Cycling Safety Ordinance"bike-lanestransit-traffic📖 read
• POR 2019 #13Volpe Project Updates
• POR 2019 #14Major Public Building Projects Selection Committee Representation

Resolutions (12)

• RES 2019 #1Retirement of Susan Marcone from the Finance Department
• RES 2019 #2Congratulations to Grace and Josh Zakim in the birth of their son Leo Patrick Zakim
• RES 2019 #3Resolution on the death of Bob Richards
• RES 2019 #4Resolution on the death of James Carl Ludwig
• RES 2019 #5Resolution on the death of Eleanor "Honey" Haley
• RES 2019 #6Congratulating Y2Y on Acceptance into Social Innovation Forum
• RES 2019 #7Resolution on the death of Arminda Vieira
• RES 2019 #8Resolution on the death of Elaine Camplese
• RES 2019 #9Congratulations to Kathy Mitchell on her retirement after 37 years of dedicated service to our City's most vulnerable communities
• RES 2019 #10Resolution on the death of David Costa
• RES 2019 #11Resolution on the death of Jules J. Albert
• RES 2019 #12Resolution on the death of Bessie Robinson

Other Business (8)

• AR-18-140Report on updating the Table of Uses and determining the frequency of regularly updating the Table of Uses
• AR-18-141Report on safe way to bring power to the curb and across sidewalks to power electric vehicles
• AR-18-142Report on targeting advertising efforts to education cyclists about riding safely and responsible, sharing the road especially at intersectionsbike-lanes
• AR-18-143Report on requiring a business entity's beneficial ownership and residential real estate beneficial ownership transactions be disclosed in all Cambridge real estate transactions
• AR-18-144Report on the process for obtaining and analyzing further detailed and specific eviction datatenants-rent

• a report from Councillor Craig Kelley, Chair of the Public Safety Committee, for a public hearing held on December 5, 2018 to explore the legal options Cambridge does and does not have when permitting existing, new and emerging mobility platforms in Cambridge 📖 read
• (untitled) 📖 read 📄 PDF
• a communication from Councillor Mallon, transmitting notes of the meeting of the Mayor's Arts Task Force 📖 read

Committee Reports (2)

• Public Safety Committee hearing of 2018-12-05 — Report Accepted And Placed On
• Health & Environment Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Report Accepted