City Council — Regular Meeting, January 14, 2019

City Manager's Agenda (8)

• CMA 2019 #5A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, requesting approval of 1) a disposition order permitting the City of Cambridge (the “City”) to lease the Harvard Square Kiosk to the Tenant currently occupying the premises on a short term basis for a period of three months with three three-month extension options to be offered in the sole discretion of the City Manager; and 2) an order approving a diminution of the requirements of Section 2.110.010 of the Municipal Code to relieve the City of the requirements of that sectiontenants-renttransit-traffic📖 read 📄 PDF
• CMA 2019 #6A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-126, regarding the River Street Infrastructure and Streetscape Project
• CMA 2019 #7A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-81, regarding a report on opening a public building during extreme heat eventspolice-safety📖 read
• CMA 2019 #8A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-27, regarding a report on audio and video difficulties during live broadcasts of Council Meetings
• CMA 2019 #9A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-88, regarding a report on conducting a comprehensive evaluation of inclusionary tenants' experiences with particular emphasis on biased practicesaffordable-housinghousing-generaltenants-rent📖 read
• CMA 2019 #10A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-120, regarding the focus of Envision Cambridge goals during community presentationsaffordable-housingclimatehousing-generalzoning📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• CMA 2019 #11A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-97, regarding a report on updating vacant property database and reviewing strategies presented in the Storefront Vacancies Best Practices Reportartstenants-rent📖 read
• CMA 2019 #12A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-128, regarding creating a small business Saturday strategy for the 2019 holiday seasontransit-traffic📖 read

Communications (9)

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

Policy Orders (8)

• POR 2019 #15That the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate City personnel to compile a report outlining how a prolonged Federal Government shut-down may impact the people of Cambridge📖 read
• POR 2019 #16That the City Manager is requested to direct the City Solicitor to review the language of Boston’s Electric Vehicle Charging Station Home Rule Petition and propose similar language for the City Council to consider
• POR 2019 #17That the City Manager is requested to confer with the Managing Director of the Water Department on whether the department is monitoring aged pipelines to prevent unexpected breaks and if information on the age of the pipes is readily available
• POR 2019 #18That the City Manager is requested to work with the Community Development Department, Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department and Department of Public Works to determine what facilities, parking changes, and other improvements to the pavement conditions are possible to make Cambridge’s stretch of Webster Avenue a Complete Streettransit-traffic
• POR 2019 #19That the Neighborhood and Long-Term Planning Committee hold a public hearing to explore the feasibility of Transit X and their potential to provide an affordable, equitable, safe, practical, congestion-reducing, and eco-friendly public transportation solution for our communitytransit-traffic
• POR 2019 #20That the City Manager is requested to confer with the Community Development Department and the City’s legal services providers on establishing a system of information-sharing and/ or alternative method for making available that data which may be of beneficial use to the City in analyzing displacementaffordable-housinghousing-generaltenants-rent📖 read
• POR 2019 #21That the topic of revamping the Memorial Tree Program be referred to the Neighborhood and Long-Term Planning, Public Facilities, Arts and Celebrations Committeeartstrees
• POR 2019 #22That the City Manager is requested to work with the Community Development Department and the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) to explore the feasibility of designing the next iteration of the Cambridge Community Electricity program

Resolutions (15)

• RES 2019 #13Resolution on the death of Roy J. Glauber
• RES 2019 #14Resolution on the death of Leonilde Alves
• RES 2019 #15Resolution on the death of Anthony "Paul" Jarosiewicz
• RES 2019 #16Resolution on the death of William A. Nadeau
• RES 2019 #17Resolution on the death of Virginia (Paiva) Sousa
• RES 2019 #18Retirement of Donna Cabral from the Community Action Agency of Somerville
• RES 2019 #19Congratulations to Professor Margo Lindauer on her appointment as a Bellow Scholar
• RES 2019 #20Retirement of Marie Killackey from the Print Shop and Mail Room
• RES 2019 #21Retirement of James Cassidy Sr. from the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Departmenttransit-traffic
• RES 2019 #22Retirement of Timothy MacDonald from the Water Department
• RES 2019 #23Retirement of Kathleen Mitchell from the Department of Human Services Programs
• RES 2019 #24Retirement of Robert Reardon from the Assessing Department
• RES 2019 #25Appreciation to Many Helping Hands 365 for organizing the Martin Luther King Jr. Cambridge Day of Service
• RES 2019 #26Resolution on the death of Paul Wilson
• RES 2019 #27Happy birthday to Sylvia Saavedra-Keber

Other Business (8)

• AR-19-1Report on the recently adopted regulations of the short-term rental revenue and the necessary steps to impose and access the revenue from the excise and community impact fees
• AR-19-2Report on allocating a percentage of hotel/motel tax revenue and adult use cannabis tax revenue to the arts in the FY20 budgetartsbudget
• AR-19-3Report on establishing a Central Square Improvement Fund and allocate no less than 25% of funds generated to the artsarts
• AR-19-4Report on the City's 1% for arts ordinance, which projects have met the threshold and which have fallen short, and whether it can be adjusted to account for ensuring that all mediums and disciplines of art, including live performance art, receive fundingarts
• AR-19-5Report on how to provide public representation to the major project Selection Committees

• a report from Councillor Craig Kelley, Chair of the Public Safety Committee, for a public hearing held on December 18, 2018 to explore the responsibilities and capacities of CPD officers or other officers working in Cambridge under CPD authority, such as out-of-town officers working a construction detail, to respond to bike related collisions 📖 read
• a report from Councillor Sumbul Siddiqui, Co-Chair and Councillor Alanna Malon, Co-Chair of the Human Services and Veterans Committee, for a public hearing held on October 30, 2018 to receive an update of existing/in progress workforce development programs 📖 read
• a communication from Councillor Carlone transmitting his comments on the Alewife Urban Design 📖 read

Committee Reports (2)

• Public Safety Committee hearing of 2018-12-18 — Report Accepted And Placed On
• Human Services & Veterans Committee hearing of 2018-10-30 — Report Accepted And Placed On