City Council — Regular Meeting, June 17, 2019

City Manager's Agenda (9)

• CMA 2019 #169Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $29,343.28 from individual donations, to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account. Funds were donated through various sources and will be used to support all participant and program needs including team uniforms, Special Olympic entry and travel costs, theatrical production costs, mobility and physical therapy equipment, art supplies and field tripsarts
• CMA 2019 #171Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $42,689.17 received from various donations to the Council on Aging, to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($17,000.00) and to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($25,689.17). These donations will be used to support a variety of services for Cambridge Seniors, including food and entertainment for senior parties, the purchase of fans for low-income seniors, provision of minor home adaptation equipment, support for the food pantry, and transportation for special senior center events and trips
• CMA 2019 #172Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $10,000 from additional Golf Course revenue, to the Public Investment Human Service Programs Extraordinary Expenditures account. These funds will be used to purchase an electric greens roller for the Golf Course to replace an existing gas-powered unit. The purchase is consistent with the 10-year replacement plan at Fresh Pond Golf Course, which includes the goal of ensuring that the Golf Course and the abutting reservation is maintained properly, provides uninterrupted service to our patrons, and limits environmental impacts by investing in green technology
• CMA 2019 #173Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $226,672, from the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) of the Office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD, to the Grant Fund Human Services Programs Salary and Wages account ($17,000) and to the Grant Fund Human Services Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($209,672). The funds will be used for shelter operating costs, providing essential services to homeless persons outside of the shelter setting, rapid re-housing and homelessness prevention case management, short and medium-term rental assistance, and financial assistance needed to gain or retain permanent housinghomelessnesshousing-general
• CMA 2019 #174Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $549,215 from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through the HOME Program to the Public Investment Fund Community Development Extraordinary Expenditures account ($544,315) and to the Grant Fund Community Development Salary & Wages account ($4,900). Development activities may include acquisition, moderate rehabilitation, substantial rehabilitation and new construction of housing units for low- and moderate- income families and individuals. The majority of the HOME funds, $544,315, will be used towards those activities; and $36,310 will be used for the Community Development Department’s administration of the HOME program. This appropriation will continue the development and rehabilitation of affordable housing in the City of Cambridgeaffordable-housinghousing-general
• CMA 2019 #175Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $352,640.66 received from Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program income to the Public Investment Community Development Extraordinary Expenditures Account, which will increase funds available to continue the development of affordable housing for residentsaffordable-housinghousing-general
• CMA 2019 #176A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-67, regarding setting up a series of informational and interactive community engagement meetings on the Affordable Housing Overlayaffordable-housinghousing-general📖 read
• CMA 2019 #177A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-44, regarding the installation of additional metered parking spots in business districts that do not currently have parking meterstransit-traffic📖 read 📄 PDF
• CMA 2019 #178A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-32, regarding a report on the number of fines for failure to clear sidewalks issued from the winter of 2014-15 through the winter of 2018-19, received from Owen O’Riordan, Commissioner of Public Works📖 read

Communications (14)

14 resident communications received for this meeting — trees (2). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (4)

• POR 2019 #215City Council support of S.2213, An Act Relative to Gender Identity on Massachusetts Identification📖 read
• POR 2019 #218That the City Manager is requested to confer with the appropriate City staff and Eversource personnel to determine why the signals at Broadway and Ellery, which add an element of confusion to this intersection, were installed without Eversource’s being able to connect them to the grid in a more responsive mannerbike-lanestransit-traffic📖 read
• POR 2019 #219City Council support for access to a safe and legal abortion
• POR 2019 #220Verizon New England, Inc. - Ware Street Innovation Space Overlay District Petition

Resolutions (17)

• RES 2019 #191Resolution on the death of Peter V. Greco
• RES 2019 #192Congratulations on retirement of John Taylor, Jr
• RES 2019 #193Resolution on the death of Manuel Pacheco
• RES 2019 #194Resolution on the death of Ronald C. Caton
• RES 2019 #195Resolution on the death of Phyllis (Tracy) Vera
• RES 2019 #196Retirement of Jean Cusack from the Finance Department
• RES 2019 #197Happy 70th Birthday wishes to Joanne Smith
• RES 2019 #198Resolution on the death of John "Sean" J. Leddy
• RES 2019 #199Resolution on the death of Rosemary Nicholson
• RES 2019 #200Retirement of Dr. Gary Setnik from Mount Auburn Hospital's Emergency Department
• RES 2019 #201Congratulating local restaurant owner and chef, Will Gilson, on his forthcoming restaurant in Cambridge Crossing
• RES 2019 #202Resolution on the death of Marquita Lawrence's sister
• RES 2019 #203Resolution on the death of Reverend Aiden C. Ward
• RES 2019 #204Recognizing June 19 as Juneteenth in Cambridge
• RES 2019 #205Retirement of Joe Robinson from Christ Church Cambridge
• RES 2019 #206Resolution on the death of Julie L. Burns
• RES 2019 #207Happy 50th Birthday wishes to Jamie Townes

Applications & Petitions (2)

• APP 2019 #51An application was received from New City Microcreamery, requesting permission for 2 Benches in front of the premises numbered 403 Massachusetts Avenue📖 read
• APP 2019 #52A petition was received from Stephan Badige et al, regarding amending the Municipal Code, Title 2, Chapter 2.78.090 subparagraph E and I by changing six months to twelve months twice in each paragraph to permit the Cambridge Historical Commission to delay the issuance of a demolition permit for twelve months📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF

Other Business (3)

• a report from Vice Mayor Jan Devereux, Chair of the Government Operations, Rules & Claims Committee, for a public hearing held on May 28, 2019 to receive an update on the Election Commission’s discussion of potential changes to the ballots used for Municipal Elections that would limit voters to marking only up to 15 candidates 📖 read
• a report from Councillor Dennis J. Carlone, Co-Chair and Councillor Craig A. Kelley, Co-Chair of the Ordinance Committee, for a public hearing held on May 28, 2019 to discuss a petition received from Verizon New England, Inc. to amend the zoning map of the City of Cambridge by creating a new Overlay Zoning District entitled “Ware Street Innovation Space Overlay District: encompassing 10 Ware Street and to amend article 20.000 of the Zoning Ordinance by creating a section entitled “Ware Street Innovation Space Overlay District” 📖 read
• CMA 2019 #170 : Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $79,059.00 from the Cambridge Housing Authority, to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account.

These funds will be used to maintain the capacity of the Cambridge Employment Program (CEP) by continuing to fund a vocational case manager to provide career counseling and case management services to Cambridge residents seeking employment, particularly those residing in public housing [affordable-housing, housing-general]

Committee Reports (2)

• Government Operations Rules & Claims Committee hearing of 2019-05-28 — Report Accepted And Placed On
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2019-05-28 — Report Accepted And Placed On