City Council · Regular Meeting, January 14, 2019

• City Manager's report2019 · #5✅ Order adopted, 8–0approval 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 sectionSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Managertenants renttransit traffic📖 read CMA 2019 #5
• City Manager's report2019 · #6📁 Placed on fileAwaiting Report Item Number 18-126, regarding the River Street Infrastructure and Streetscape ProjectSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City ManagerCMA 2019 #6
• City Manager's report2019 · #7📁 Placed on fileAwaiting Report Item Number 18-81, regarding a report on opening a public building during extreme heat eventsSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Managerpolice safety📖 readCMA 2019 #7
• City Manager's report2019 · #8📁 Placed on fileAwaiting Report Item Number 18-27, regarding a report on audio and video difficulties during live broadcasts of Council MeetingsSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City ManagerCMA 2019 #8
• City Manager's report2019 · #9📁 Placed on fileAwaiting Report Item Number 18-88, regarding a report on conducting a comprehensive evaluation of inclusionary tenants' experiences with particular emphasis on biased practicesSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Manageraffordable housinghousing generaltenants rent📖 readCMA 2019 #9
• City Manager's report2019 · #10📁 Placed on fileAwaiting Report Item Number 18-120, regarding the focus of Envision Cambridge goals during community presentationsSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Manageraffordable housingclimatehousing generallaborschoolszoning📖 read CMA 2019 #10
• City Manager's report2019 · #11📁 Placed on fileAwaiting Report Item Number 18-97, regarding a report on updating vacant property database and reviewing strategies presented in the Storefront Vacancies Best Practices ReportSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Managerartstenants rent📖 readCMA 2019 #11
• City Manager's report2019 · #12📁 Placed on fileAwaiting Report Item Number 18-128, regarding creating a small business Saturday strategy for the 2019 holiday seasonSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Managertransit traffic📖 readCMA 2019 #12

• City officer's report2019 · #2a communication from Councillor Carlone transmitting his comments on the Alewife Urban Designartsbudgethousing general📖 readCOF 2019 #2

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

• Policy order2019 · #15✅ Order adopted as amendedAsks the City Manager to direct the appropriate City personnel to compile a report outlining how a prolonged Federal Government shut-down may impact the people of CambridgeCouncil request📖 readPOR 2019 #15
• Policy order2019 · #16✅ Order adoptedAsks the City Manager 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 considerCouncil requestPOR 2019 #16
• Policy order2019 · #17✅ Order adoptedAsks the City Manager 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 availableCouncil requestPOR 2019 #17
• Policy order2019 · #18✅ Order adoptedAsks the City Manager 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 StreetCouncil requesttransit trafficPOR 2019 #18
• Policy order2019 · #19⊘ Order withdrawnNeighborhood 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 communityCouncil ordertransit trafficPOR 2019 #19
• Policy order2019 · #20✅ Order adoptedAsks the City Manager 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 displacementCouncil requestaffordable housinghousing generaltenants rent📖 readPOR 2019 #20
• Policy order2019 · #21✅ Order adoptedtopic of revamping the Memorial Tree Program be referred to the Neighborhood and Long-Term Planning, Public Facilities, Arts and Celebrations CommitteeCouncil orderartstreesPOR 2019 #21
• Policy order2019 · #22✅ Order adoptedAsks the City Manager 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 programCouncil requestPOR 2019 #22

• Resolution2019 · #13✅ Order adoptedResolution on the death of Roy J. GlauberRES 2019 #13
• Resolution2019 · #14✅ Order adoptedResolution on the death of Leonilde AlvesRES 2019 #14
• Resolution2019 · #15✅ Order adoptedResolution on the death of Anthony "Paul" JarosiewiczRES 2019 #15
• Resolution2019 · #16✅ Order adoptedResolution on the death of William A. NadeauRES 2019 #16
• Resolution2019 · #17✅ Order adoptedResolution on the death of Virginia (Paiva) SousaRES 2019 #17
• Resolution2019 · #18✅ Order adoptedRetirement of Donna Cabral from the Community Action Agency of SomervilleRES 2019 #18
• Resolution2019 · #19✅ Order adoptedCongratulations to Professor Margo Lindauer on her appointment as a Bellow ScholarRES 2019 #19
• Resolution2019 · #20✅ Order adoptedRetirement of Marie Killackey from the Print Shop and Mail RoomRES 2019 #20
• Resolution2019 · #21✅ Order adoptedRetirement of James Cassidy Sr. from the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Departmenttransit trafficRES 2019 #21
• Resolution2019 · #22✅ Order adoptedRetirement of Timothy MacDonald from the Water DepartmentRES 2019 #22
• Resolution2019 · #23✅ Order adoptedRetirement of Kathleen Mitchell from the Department of Human Services ProgramsRES 2019 #23
• Resolution2019 · #24✅ Order adoptedRetirement of Robert Reardon from the Assessing DepartmentRES 2019 #24
• Resolution2019 · #25✅ Order adoptedAppreciation to Many Helping Hands 365 for organizing the Martin Luther King Jr. Cambridge Day of ServiceRES 2019 #25
• Resolution2019 · #26✅ Order adoptedResolution on the death of Paul WilsonRES 2019 #26
• Resolution2019 · #27✅ Order adoptedHappy birthday to Sylvia Saavedra-KeberRES 2019 #27

• Awaiting report2019 · #1✅ Report received and acceptedReport 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 feesAR-19-1
• Awaiting report2019 · #2Report on allocating a percentage of hotel/motel tax revenue and adult use cannabis tax revenue to the arts in the FY20 budgetartsbudgetAR-19-2
• Awaiting report2019 · #3Report on establishing a Central Square Improvement Fund and allocate no less than 25% of funds generated to the artsartsAR-19-3
• Awaiting report2019 · #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 fundingartsAR-19-4
• Awaiting report2019 · #5📁 Placed on file due to end of legislative termReport on how to provide public representation to the major project Selection CommitteesAR-19-5

• CRT 2019 #3 · 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 [police-safety] 📖 read
• CRT 2019 #4 · 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

• 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