City Council — Regular Meeting, November 25, 2019

City Manager's Agenda (12)

• CMA 2019 #300Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $30,000 from Free Cash to the General Fund Community Development Department Other Ordinary Maintenance Account to support workshops and trainings to Cambridge small-scale food businesses, including food truck operators vending in Cambridge
• CMA 2019 #301A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-96, regarding supporting documentation as it relates to cyclists running red lightsbike-lanes📖 read
• CMA 2019 #302Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of a State Executive Office of Public Safety, Department of Fire Services grant, in the amount of $187,500, to the Grant Fund Fire Department Extraordinary Expenditures account ($163,700) and the Grant Fund Fire Travel and Training account ($23,800) and will be used for Hazmat Responders Personal Protective Equipment; to upgrade decontamination supplies; for new hazards detection devices; to purchase warrantees for certain meters; and Gasses and Confidence Tests for detection devices; and to repair or replace equipment as needed as well as for training that will allow members to stay current on the latest hazards, threats and procedurespolice-safety
• CMA 2019 #303A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-97, regarding safe needle disposal in City parks and buildingshomelessnesslaborpolice-safety📖 read
• CMA 2019 #304A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-43, regarding a report on the types of vendor reporting programs that the City uses and our ability to modify these programs
• CMA 2019 #305A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-110, regarding a report on installing safety measures at Fayette and Cambridge Streetstransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2019 #306Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the transfer of $62,500 from the General Fund Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department Salary & Wages Account to the Traffic, Parking, and Transportation Travel and Training (Judgment and Damages) account to cover a workers compensation lump sum settlementlabortransit-traffic
• CMA 2019 #307Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $1,924,594.18, associated with Education First’s EF 3 Building, SP#328) from the Mitigation Revenue Stabilization Fund to the Public Investment Public Works Extraordinary Expenditure account which will be used to support utility work associated with the Port Project and were paid by Education First to fulfill their Inflow and Infiltration requirement
• CMA 2019 #308Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $48,467, associated with Triangle Park stormwater management, from the Mitigation Revenue Stabilization Fund to the Public Investment Fund Public Works Department Extraordinary Expenditures account which will be used to support stormwater improvements at the Triangle Park and were paid by Alexandria Real Estate
• CMA 2019 #309A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-140, regarding Harvard Square plaza area safety improvementsbike-lanestransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2019 #310Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $107,000 from Free Cash to the General Fund Finance Other Ordinary Maintenance account as initial support of the recommendations of the Mayor’s Arts Task Force regarding the Central Square Cultural Districtarts
• CMA 2019 #311A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-122, which requested a legal opinion on the License Commissions authority📖 read

Communications (8)

8 resident communications received for this meeting — bike lanes (2) · zoning (1) · transit traffic (1). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (6)

• POR 2019 #374That the City Manager is requested to work with the Police Commissioner and other relevant departments to provide an update of when the public Police Dashboard will be fully operationalpolice-safety
• POR 2019 #375That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the Director of Traffic, Parking and Transportation and the Department of Recreation and Conservation to provide an explanation as to why a “No Turn on Red” was installed where Rindge Avenue intersects Alewife Brook Parkwaytransit-traffic
• POR 2019 #376That the City Manager is requested to allocate the necessary funds to maintain the existing staffing levels and operating hours at the O’Connell Branch Library
• POR 2019 #377That the City Manager is requested to confer with the Director of Traffic, Parking and Transportation and the Police Commissioner to determine ways to review safety and devise any safety interventions at the corner of Saville Street and Walden Streetpolice-safetytransit-traffic
• POR 2019 #378That the City Council go on record condemning WeWork’s decision to terminate all of its cleaning and maintenance staff, and urging the company to reverse this mistreatment of workers in Cambridge and all across the continentlabor
• POR 2019 #379That the City Council go on record calling on Harvard-Yale to ensure that the legal rights of the Harvard-Yale protestors are fully protected and that all charges are dropped

Resolutions (7)

• RES 2019 #384Speedy Recovery wishes to Dosha Beard
• RES 2019 #385Speedy Recovery wishes to Judy Martin
• RES 2019 #386Resolution on the death of Steven DiCecca
• RES 2019 #387Resolution on the death of Florence Eori
• RES 2019 #388Resolution on the death of Elaine T. Leccese
• RES 2019 #389Resolution on the death of Anne T. Delvecchio
• RES 2019 #390Congratulations to Pastor Jaron Green on his new role as Pastor at the Union Baptist Churchlabor

Applications & Petitions (1)

• APP 2019 #92An application was received from Central Square Business Improvement District requesting permission for a 35 temporary banners on poles along Massachusetts Avenue announcing Central Square Shop Small from November 26, 2019 thru January 7, 2019📖 read

Other Business (4)

• AR-19-155Report on changing the surface of the Tudor Street Dog Park to eliminate hazards created by ingestion of small stones from the surface of the park
• AR-19-156Report on fully restoring sharrows to Broadway, alongside the new door-zone bike lane, as a reminder to motorists that cyclists are always allowed to take the full lanebike-lanes

• (untitled) 📖 read
• CRT 2019 #78 — A report from Councillor Dennis J. Carlone and Councillor Craig A. Kelley, Co-Chairs of the Ordinance Committee, for a public hearing held on September 26, 2019 and November 14, 2019 to discuss the petition by Stephen R. Karp, Trustee of Cambridgeside Galleria Associates Trust, to amend the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Cambridge by adding a Section 13.100 that creates a new PUD-8 District and to amend the Zoning Map of the City of Cambridge by adding the new PUD-8 District, which District would include the property located at 100 Cambridgeside Place (currently zoned in the Business A and PUD-4 Districts) [zoning]

Committee Reports (2)

• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2019-09-26 — Referred
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Referred