City Council — Regular Meeting, January 27, 2020

City Manager's Agenda (12)

• CMA 2020 #7A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the recommendation to reappointment of Gerard Clark as a member of the Cambridge Housing Authority (CHA) Board of Commissioners for a term of 5-yearshousing-general
• CMA 2020 #8A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appointment of the following person as a new member of the Affordable Housing Trust Board for a term of three years, effective January 22, 2020: Elaine DeRosaaffordable-housinghousing-general
• CMA 2020 #9A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the reappointment of the following members of the LGBTQ+ Commissioner for a term of three years, effective February 6, 2020: Mal Malme, Robert Parlin, Aren Stone, Catherine Grams, Noelani Kamelamela, Gregory MacDonough and Britt Huhmann
• CMA 2020 #10Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $46,000 from Free Cash to the General Fund Elections Department Salary and Wages account ($6,145) and to the General Fund Elections Department Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($39,855) which will be used to cover the additional costs associated with recently approved early voting for the Presidential Primary, March 3rd, 2020
• CMA 2020 #11Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of the FY2020 Cultural Investment Portfolio Program Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in the amount of $12,100 to the Grant Fund Historical Commission Salaries and Wages account ($11,000), and Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($1,100) which will continue to support part-time archives assistants, who maintain the public archive of Cambridge history, as well as archival storage supplies
• CMA 2020 #12Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $50,000 from the Cambridge Community Foundation to support the Agenda for Children Out of School Time Initiative to the Grant Fund Department of Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($5,000) and to the Grant Fund Department of Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($45,000)schools
• CMA 2020 #13A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-118, regarding a report on senior scams and fraudpolice-safety📖 read
• CMA 2020 #14A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-120, regarding idling vehicles enforcementpolice-safetytransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2020 #15Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $400,000 from Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund Public Works Extraordinary Expenditures Account for the design of improvements at the River Street Firehouse
• CMA 2020 #16Transmitting 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 for the design of improvements at the Lexington Avenue Firehouse
• CMA 2020 #17Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $500,000 from Free Cash, to the Public Investment Fund Public Works Extraordinary Expenditures Account for interior floor concrete slab repairs at Lafayette and Inman Square Firehouses
• CMA 2020 #18Transmitting 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 to support the completion of Clarendon Avenue Playground

Communications (31)

31 resident communications received for this meeting — trees (7) · zoning (3) · climate (2) · homelessness (1). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (12)

• POR 2020 #6That the City Manager is requested to confer with the Commissioner of Public Works on updating the department’s maintenance plan with an emphasis on cleaning open-trash receptacles more frequently
• POR 2020 #7That the City Manager be and is hereby requested to confer with the Cambridge Police Commissioner and other relevant departments to determine the feasibility of purchasing sensory bags for Police vehicles as a pilot programpolice-safety
• POR 2020 #8That the City Manager is requested to work with all relevant city and state departments to amend the Do Not Enter sign at the entrance of Whittemore Avenue from Alewife Brook Parkway to include an exception for abutters
• POR 2020 #9Cancellation of the Regular City Council Meeting March 9, 2020
• POR 2020 #10That the City Manager is requested to confer with relevant City Departments, and, where relevant, the MBTA and counterparts in other municipalities for routes not wholly in Cambridge, on the feasibility of instituting and funding a fare-free pilot bus programclimateschoolstransit-traffic📖 read
• POR 2020 #11That the Mayor is requested to schedule a Roundtable/Working Meeting for members of the City Council and School Committee for Tuesday, February 11, 2020schools
• POR 2020 #12That the City Manager is requested to confer with the Director of the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department on the potential for implementing sufficient traffic-calming solutions on Upton Streettransit-traffic
• POR 2020 #13That the City Manager is requested to confer with relevant City departments regarding the acquisition and implementation of interpretation services for City Council meetings and other public City meetings
• POR 2020 #14That the Cambridge City Council amend the Municipal Ordinances of the City of Cambridge to insert a new Chapter 2.129, entitled WELCOMING COMMUNITY ORDINANCE📖 read 📄 PDF
• POR 2020 #15Declare January 31, 2020 as “Volunteer Income Tax Assistance and Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day" in the City of Cambridge
• POR 2020 #16That the city manager convene stakeholder meetings to make comments on the implementation of banning gas
• POR 2020 #17That the City Manager work with the Carnival Committee to enhance the Cambridge Carnival event, allocate the necessary funds, and develop a comprehensive public safety plan, including contingency plans so that the event can take place in a secure time and place, even in the presence of significant threats that can be anticipatedpolice-safety

Resolutions (18)

• RES 2020 #20Welcome to Dr. Robin DiAngelo
• RES 2020 #21Congratulations to Sydney Cox for 45 Years at DPW
• RES 2020 #22Resolution on the Death of Kathy Simmons
• RES 2020 #23Congratulations to Darlene Lombos
• RES 2020 #24Resolution on the death of Gloria Adkinslaborschools📖 read
• RES 2020 #25Resolution on the death of Ralph Hoagland IIIschools📖 read
• RES 2020 #26Resolution on the death of Corey McClintic📖 read
• RES 2020 #27Resolution on the death of Steven Sousa📖 read
• RES 2020 #28Resolution on the death of Brian M. Sullivan
• RES 2020 #29Happy 70th Birthday wishes to a special person
• RES 2020 #30Resolution on the death of Richard B. Griffin
• RES 2020 #31Congratulations to Shy Bird on being named one of Boston Globe's "29 Best New Restaurants in Boston and the suburbs."
• RES 2020 #32Wishing Deborah L. Anderson a Happiest 90th Birthday📖 read 📄 PDF
• RES 2020 #33Retirement of Maryann MacDonald from the School Departmentschools
• RES 2020 #34Retirement of Dosha Beard from the School Departmentschools
• RES 2020 #35Resolution on the death of Julia Hogan Jackson
• RES 2020 #36Retirement of Barbara Allen from the School Departmentschools
• RES 2020 #37Speedy recovery wishes to Maureen Frisoli

Applications & Petitions (3)

• APP 2020 #2An application was received from Patrick Barrett, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 907 Main Street; said petition has received approval from Inspectional Services, Traffic, Parking and Transportation, Historical Commission and Public Works. No response has been received from the neighborhood associationtransit-traffictrees📖 read 📄 PDF
• APP 2020 #3A petition was received from MIT List Visual Arts Center, requesting permission for fifteen banners on poles along Ames Street to promote the Galleries and their programming from February 5, 2020 thru September 31, 2020arts📖 read
• APP 2020 #4A petition was received from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, requesting permission for (189) one hundred and eighty-nine banners on poles along Massachusetts Avenue on existing wires at Norfolk and JFK Streets, poles in Harvard Square, poles along Massachusetts Avenue from Vassar Street to Harvard Square, poles along Broadway from Ellery Street to Felton Street, poles along Cambridge Street from Trowbridge to Hovey Streets and poles in Kendall Square to publicize the upcoming Cambridge Science Festival from March 16, 2020 thru April 27, 2020📖 read

Other Business (3)

• AR-20-1Report on the work that has been done to Support Small Business and the Arts through Tourismarts

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• a memorandum with additional materials regarding Calendar Item #1 from January 27, 2020 City Council meeting 📖 read

Committee Reports (8)

• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2019-12-11 — Report Accepted
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Tabled
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Order Adopted
• Neighborhood & Long Term Planning Committee hearing of 2019-12-19 — Charter Right
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Charter Right
• Health & Environment Committee hearing of 2020-01-22 — Report Accepted
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Adopted [6 To 3]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Passed To A Second Reading [7 To 2]