City Council — Regular Meeting, April 1, 2019

City Manager's Agenda (19)

• CMA 2019 #68A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a recommendation from City Engineer Katherine Watkins, to eliminate and rename certain streets in the Northpoint/Cambridge Crossing areaschools📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• CMA 2019 #69A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-19, regarding a report on new tree plantings and trash receptacles in The Porttrees
• CMA 2019 #70Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $300,000 from Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund Public Works Extraordinary Expenditures account which will support the expansion of the curbside organics program to 13+ unit households in FY20 and be used for the purchase of collection bins and outreach efforts
• CMA 2019 #71Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $180,000 in Virtual Net Metering (VNM) credits to the General Fund Public Works Other Ordinary Maintenance account, for costs related to solar VNM agreementsclimate
• CMA 2019 #72A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-06, regarding a report on outlining how a prolonged Federal Government shutdown may impact the people in Cambridge
• CMA 2019 #73A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-61 regarding a report on commissioning a public art piece, statue or memorial that would commemorate the dedication of women in Cambridge to passing the Nineteenth Amendmentarts
• CMA 2019 #74A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-91, regarding a report on a plan to allow the Mayor’s Annual Harvard Senior Luncheon to be held regardless of weather conditions
• CMA 2019 #75A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to reappointments and new appointments of the following person as a member of the LGBTQ+ Commission effective April 1, 2019: Reappointments: John Gintell (3 years), Steve Lee (3 years), Lesley Phillips (3 years), Silas Weiner (3 years) and new appointments: Michelle Zucker (3 years), Nefyn Meissner (3 years), Leo Benjamin Austin-Spooner (2 years) and Britt Huhmann (1 year)
• CMA 2019 #76Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of a grant from the MetroNorth Regional Employment Board (MNREB) for $81,775.00 to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($49,065.00) and to the Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($32,710.00) which will be used to reimburse the City for salary costs associated with enrolling income-eligible youth in the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program, and to support program costs for work sites taking large numbers of youth and developing worksites for youth participants
• CMA 2019 #77Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of the Massachusetts Formula Grant in the amount of $173,800.00 from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs to the Grant Fund Department of Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($116,816.00), to the Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($48,684.00), and to the Travel and Training account ($8,300.00) which will be used to provide transportation for Cambridge seniors to medical appointments and weekly grocery shopping trips and will also support one part-time weekend coordinator position, an office aid, a meals assistant and several wellness/exercise instructors and group facilitators who provide services at the Citywide Senior Center
• CMA 2019 #78Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of the Shannon Grant received from the Metropolitan Mayors Coalition/Shannon Community Safety Initiative through the Executive Office of Public Safety for $15,042.07 to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($13,824.00) and to the Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($1,218.07) which will be used to support the design and implementation of the City Peace program, a violence prevention peer leadership internship for teens through the Youth Centerspolice-safety
• CMA 2019 #79Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $70,000.00 from Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund Human Service Programs Extraordinary Expenditures Account for the purchase of a new ADA accessible bus
• CMA 2019 #80A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-65, regarding organizing a Town Hall Meeting for Cambridge youth
• CMA 2019 #81A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-24, regarding pedestrian safety improvements at the intersection of Day Street and Massachusetts Avenue, and Awaiting Report 19-31, regarding general safety improvements at the intersection of Spring Street and Third Streettransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2019 #82A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-133, regarding a report on raising the fines for blocking both loading zones and bike lanes to a comparable rate to Boston for the 2020 fiscal yearbike-lanestransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2019 #83A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-12, regarding a report on legality and constitutionality of the proposed "Cambridge Publicly Financed Municipal Election Program" and the "Cambridge Municipal Election People's Pledge", and Awaiting Report Item Number 18-136 regarding a report on submitting a proposal that candidates would agree to not accept donations from persons outside of the Commonwealth of Massachusettsschools📖 read
• CMA 2019 #84A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-01, regarding a report 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📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• CMA 2019 #85A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a request for approval to seek authorization from the Massachusetts Office of the Inspector General (the “IG”) for the City to use the Construction Manager at Risk (“CMaR”) procurement and construction method (the “CMaR Method”) in connection with the Tobin Montessori and Vassal Lane Upper Schools Projectschools📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• CMA 2019 #86A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the proposed Cannabis Business Permitting Ordinance. ON OR AFTER APRIL 22, 2019 THE QUESTION COMES ON PASSAGE TO BE ORDAINED📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF

Communications (7)

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

Policy Orders (11)

• POR 2019 #111That the City Manager is requested to confer with the appropriate City departments to televise and record the Transportation and Public Utilities Committee hearing scheduled for Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 1:00 p.m
• POR 2019 #112That the City Manager is requested to consult with the appropriate City departments to make the necessary provisions to televise and record the Ordinance Committee hearing on “Leaf Blower Noise Control” for 5:30pm on Wednesday, May 1, 2019leaf-blowers
• POR 2019 #113That the City Manager is requested to work with the appropriate departments to provide more information and analysis as it relates to the 100% Affordable Housing Overlay Districtaffordable-housinghousing-general
• POR 2019 #114That the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate City personnel to ensure that the Housing Committee hearing scheduled for April 25, 2019 be televised and livestreamed, to ensure that as many people as possible will have the opportunity to view this hearinghousing-general
• POR 2019 #115That the City Manager is requested to confer with relevant City, Department of Conservation and Recreation, and MassDOT staff, as well as with representatives of the communities through which the Minuteman Bikeway passes, to review infrastructure designs and investigate ways, to include speed limits, enforcement, striping, construction projects, signage and education efforts, to maximize safety for all users of these regional bike-related amenitiestransit-traffic
• POR 2019 #116That the City Manager is requested to confer with City staff, to include the Cambridge Police Department and the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department staff, on how Cambridge enforces moped registration requirements and the enforcement numberspolice-safetytransit-traffic
• POR 2019 #117That the City Manager is requested to report back to the City Council on what the plans are this construction season to install sidewalk markings that appropriately indicate what types of mobility devices are allowed on which sidewalks
• POR 2019 #118That the City Manager is requested to confer with relevant City departments regarding the types of vendor reporting programs that the City uses and how they are used as well as the ability to modify these programs given the constraints of relevant state and federal laws and similar limitations
• POR 2019 #119That the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate City personnel to ensure that the Housing Committee hearing scheduled for April 16, 2019 be televised and livestreamed,housing-general
• POR 2019 #120That the City Manager is requested to confer with the appropriate City departments to televise and record the Government Operations, Rules and Claims Committee hearing scheduled for Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 4:00 p.m
• POR 2019 #122That the City Council go on record in enthusiastic support of H.2865, “An Act to Establish a Net Zero Energy Stretch Codeclimate

Resolutions (6)

• RES 2019 #90Resolution on the death of Joyce Egleston
• RES 2019 #91Speedy recovery wishes to Esther Splaine
• RES 2019 #92Resolution on the death of retired Cambridge Police Officer Edward "Eddie" Burkepolice-safety
• RES 2019 #93Resolution on the death of Charles Webb
• RES 2019 #94Resolution on the death of Maria (Pinto) Henley
• RES 2019 #95Congratulations and wishes of success to the Professionisti Italani a Boston as well as its participants and sponsors on the upcoming "Italian Expo Day" to be held on April 6, 2019

Applications & Petitions (1)

• APP 2019 #21An application was received from Gregory Matteosian, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 14 Jackson 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-trafficzoning📖 read

Other Business (4)

• AR-19-38Report on designating a staff member in the Economic Development Division as an "arts liaison."arts
• AR-19-39Report on creating a dedicated comprehensive "arts friendly" licensing web pagearts
• AR-19-40Report on providing accessibility to the deaf community by hiring American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters and using apps such as Language Line Solutions to communicate with the deaf community in their first language

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