City Council — Regular Meeting, April 8, 2019

City Manager's Agenda (9)

• CMA 2019 #87Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $800,000 from Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund School Department Extraordinary Expenditures account for building upgrades at the Peabody Elementary School and the Baldwin Elementary Schoolschools
• CMA 2019 #88Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the transfer of $335,000 in the General Fund between School Department statutory accounts as follows: $335,000 from the Salary and Wages account to the School Travel and Training account which will be used to fund current and projected medical service and prescription reimbursement costs as well as anticipated workers’ compensation settlement costs related to School Department personnel injured in the performance of their dutieslaborschools
• CMA 2019 #89Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of the FY19 EOPSS HSD Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Grant for $8,000 received from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security Highway Safety Division to the Grant Fund Police Department Salary and Wages account which will be for personnel/overtime services and will be dedicated to initiatives that address pedestrian and bicycle issues, coupling educational projects with enforcement of laws to reduce pedestrian and bicycle injuries and crashesbike-lanespolice-safetytransit-traffic
• CMA 2019 #90Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $1,280,000.00 from Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund Library Extraordinary Expenditure account to support the creation of a new STEAM creativity zone, The Hive, at the Cambridge Public Library
• CMA 2019 #91A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appointment of the following person as a member of the Human Rights Commissioner for a term of three years, effective April 4, 2019: Brandon Morgan
• CMA 2019 #92Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $300,000 from parking fund balance to the General Fund Traffic and Parking Department Other Ordinary Maintenance account, to cover additional Fiscal Year 2019 operating expenditures for expanding separated bicycle lane network; feasibility and desirability of a potential extension of Terminal Road to Wheeler Street; and projected additional expenses relating to ongoing building renovation work at the Traffic Department officesbike-lanestransit-traffic
• CMA 2019 #93A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-94, regarding a report on micromobility, shared mobility data access, and data management concernsclimatetransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2019 #94A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-17, regarding a report on an update on efforts to study, assess, and address noise issues associated with flights in and out of Logan Airport📖 read
• CMA 2019 #95A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-27, regarding a report on an update on the Firehouse improvements allocation

Communications (25)

25 resident communications received for this meeting — bike lanes (6) · trees (1) · broadband (1) · transit traffic (1) · affordable housing (1). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (19)

• POR 2019 #123That the City Manager is requested to instruct the Director of the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department to install more metered parking spots in business districts that do not currently have any and report back to the City Council on this matter in a timely mannertransit-traffic
• POR 2019 #124That the City Manager is requested to work with the Department of Human Services to develop a plan for implementation of a City-Wide Workforce Development Consortium
• POR 2019 #125That the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate City departments to make the necessary arrangements for all future committee hearings that take place in the Sullivan Chamber to be televised and recorded
• POR 2019 #126That the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate City personnel to compile a full accounting of streets, schools, and public buildings that may be named in honor of those who have ties to the American slave trade, and to work towards renaming all of these streets, schools, and buildings as soon as possibleschools📖 read
• POR 2019 #127That the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate City staff to televise the Economic Development and University Relations Committee hearing on April 30, 2019 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 on their own time📖 read
• POR 2019 #128That the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate City departments to make the necessary arrangements to televise and record the Ordinance Committee hearing on the Cannabis Business Permitting Ordinance for 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, 2019, with no set ending time
• POR 2019 #129That the City Manager is requested to direct the Commissioner of the Department of Public Works to provide an update on the small business recycling program pilot indicating any recalibration or reconsideration of the proposed program that may be necessary and any plans for expansionbike-lanes
• POR 2019 #130That the City Council go on record in support of Cambridge committing to be a Start by Believing community and do hereby declare its’ intention to take the Start by Believing pledge on Wednesday, April 10, 2019, at an event on the steps of City Hall at noon
• POR 2019 #131That the City Manager is requested to instruct the City Solicitor to review whether the MBTA is out of compliance with the amended MBTA/BCIL settlement agreement through the delay in completion of the elevator replacement and concurrent hazardous condition of the stairwells related to Central Squaretransit-traffic
• POR 2019 #132City Council support for Dark Skies Legislation H.2858/S.1937
• POR 2019 #133That the City Manager is requested to direct the Commissioner of the Department of Public Works to provide an update on the feasibility study of expanding curbside composting program to small businesses, city buildings and non-profits by the end of 2019bike-lanesbudget📖 read
• POR 2019 #134That the City Manager is requested to work with the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department and the Police Department to increase traffic monitoring resources at the intersection of Prospect and Broadway, especially during morning rush hourpolice-safetyschoolstransit-traffic📖 read
• POR 2019 #135City Council support of H.771/S.462, “An Act Reducing Plastic Bag Pollution”, and in urging the Chairpeople of the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture to advance the bill with a favorable recommendation
• POR 2019 #136That the City Manager is requested to work with the appropriate departments and the MBTA to do whatever is necessary to alleviate the Green Street bus idling and unhealthy situationtransit-traffic
• POR 2019 #137That the City Manager is requested to work with the Public Health Alliance, Economic Development Division of Community Development Department and the Community Development Department to recommend restrictions on signage specific to retail establishments that sell e-cigarettes and other vaping devices
• POR 2019 #138That the City Manager is requested to confer with the appropriate City departments about updating the “Cambridge Parking Tickets” dataset in the Open Data Portal with the most recent information availablepolice-safetytransit-traffic📖 read
• POR 2019 #139That the City Manager is requested to provide the City Council with an additional response that clarifies the City’s policy around future installation of new LED streetlights and replacement of failed 4000K LED streetlights with warmer alternatives 3000K or less
• POR 2019 #140That the City Council go on record in support of the Harvard Graduate Students Union-UAW's demands for a fair contract now, with fair wages, benefits and a fair and neutral procedure for adjudicating workplace harassment and discriminationlaborschools
• POR 2019 #141That the following policy be approved when a member of the City Council makes a request to provide refreshments for a meeting/hearing: A member of the City Council submits a Policy Order, in advance of the meeting/hearing, outlining the date, time, and publicly accessible location of the meeting/hearing, and the purpose for food or incidentals for the meeting/hearing; The City Council votes to approve the expenditure

Resolutions (11)

• RES 2019 #96Happy belated birthday wishes to Mary Horgan
• RES 2019 #97Congratulations to Chicago Mayor-Elect Lori Lightfoot
• RES 2019 #98Happy 100th Birthday wishes to Dr. Takako Grace Sato Salvi
• RES 2019 #99Congratulations to Jacqueline "Jackie" and Norman "Ted" Coffman on their 50th Wedding Anniversary
• RES 2019 #100Resolution on the death of Isabel Cabral
• RES 2019 #101Resolution on the death of Jose B. Medeiros
• RES 2019 #102Congratulations to Cambridge Dispatcher of the Year Katelyn Harrington, Trainer of the Year James Maybury, and Supervisor of the Year Joseph Sullivan on the occasion of their recognition as we celebrate National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week from April 14-20, 2019police-safety
• RES 2019 #103Resolution on the death Idalia Gravito
• RES 2019 #104Congratulations to Becki Norris on her appointment as Community Charter School of Cambridge Head of Schoolschools
• RES 2019 #105Congratulations Cynthia and Rene Becker on the opening of their new restaurant Luce
• RES 2019 #106Congratulations to Jesen Fagerness and Emily LaCroix on the birth of their first child, Murray Calder LaCoix Fagerness

Applications & Petitions (2)

• APP 2019 #22An application was received from the DPW Department of the City of Cambridge requesting permission for two temporary banners across Massachusetts Avenue in front of City Hall, announcing Arbor Week/Cambridge Adopt a Tree Program from April 22, 2019 thru April 29, 2019trees📖 read
• APP 2019 #23An application was received from the Department of Human Services City of Cambridge requesting permission for a temporary banner across Massachusetts Avenue in front of City Hall announcing Find It Cambridge on April 29 2019 thru May 13, 2019, August 5, 2019 thru August 19, 2019 and October 14, 2019 thru October 21, 2019📖 read

Other Business (9)

• AR-19-41Report on how Cambridge enforces moped registration requirements and the enforcement numbers
• AR-19-42Report on plans this construction season to install sidewalk markings that appropriately indicate what types of mobility devices are allowed on which sidewalks
• AR-19-43Report on 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

• a report from Vice Mayor Jan Devereux, Chair of the Government Operations, Rules & Claims Committee, for a public hearing held on March 26, 2019 to discuss a proposed change to City Council Rule 39 entitled “Rules of Travel” to be amended to be entitled “Rules of Travel and Other Council Related Expenditures” 📖 read
• a report from Councillor Craig Kelley, Chair of the Public Safety Committee, for a public hearing held on March 13, 2019 to discuss under what circumstance the City of Cambridge might be interested in submitting a home rule petition to allow the City Council or another branch of Municipal Government to define, if, where and how public consumption of cannabis might be allowed in Cambridge 📖 read
• a report from Councillor E. Denise Simmons, Co-Chair and Councillor Sumbul Siddiqui, Co-Chair of the Housing Committee for a public hearing held on March 5, 2019 to continue discussions on the Affordable Housing Overlay District 📖 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 March 27, 2019 to discuss a zoning petition filed by Melissa and Christopher Grippo et al to amend the Zoning Ordinance by adding at the end of section 5.30.11 a sentence that reads: “notwithstanding the foregoing, in Industry B District, a hotel use (Section 4.31.2) shall be governed by the section number (4.0) for purposes of determining the maximum ratio of floor area to lot area. ON OR AFTER APRIL 29, 2019 THE QUESTION COMES ON PASSAGE TO BE ORDAINED 📖 read 📖 read 📖 read
• a memorandum from Gregory Matteosian in regards to the Curb Cut application for 14 Jackson Street which was the subject of a Charter Right on April 1, 2019 📖 read
• a memorandum regarding the update on the search process to hire a new City Clerk to replace Donna Lopez when she retires 📖 read 📖 read

Committee Reports (4)

• Government Operations Rules & Claims Committee hearing of 2019-03-26 — Report Accepted And Placed On
• Public Safety Committee hearing of 2019-03-13 — Report Accepted And Placed On
• Housing Committee hearing of 2019-03-05 — Report Accepted And Placed On
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2019-03-27 — Passed To A Second Reading