City Council — Regular Meeting, February 24, 2020

City Manager's Agenda (14)

• CMA 2020 #35Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of the Massachusetts Formula Grant in the amount of $173,998.00 funded by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs to the Grant Fund Department of Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($109,283.00), Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($57,915.00), and to the Travel and Training account ($6,800.00) which will be used for the Council on Aging Division to provide transportation for Cambridge seniors to medical appointments and weekly grocery shopping trips and will also support an activities assistant, an office aid, a meals assistant and several wellness/exercise instructors and group facilitators who provide services at the Citywide Senior Center
• CMA 2020 #36Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of additional funds for the Community Learning Center’s Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education/Community Learning Services state grant in the amount of $33,425.00 to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account which will be used to increase part time staff hours for follow up, collection, tracking and entry of outcomes in LACES (the state database), for assessments; and for part time staff participation in CLC teams’ work, and for the newly hired ESOL/CAN teacher to familiarize herself with the program curriculum and to tutor students to pass the MA certificate exam and will also be used to pay for staff hours for education and career advising and curriculum coordinationschools
• CMA 2020 #37Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of new Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) funds for the YWCA family shelter in the amount of $8,000.00 to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account which will be used to provide educational enrichment (tutoring, school vacation programs, educational software and events) to children and teens residing in its DHCD funded family shelter during the July1, 2019 through June 30, 2020 contract yearhomelessnesshousing-generalschools
• CMA 2020 #38A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appointment of the following person as a members of the Family Policy Council for a term of 2 years, effective February 24, 2020: Hiba Eddaif and Irene Hill
• CMA 2020 #39Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of a grant from the State Executive Office of Public Safety for $3,125 to the Grant Fund Fire Salaries and Wages account ($2,500.00) and Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($625.00) to provide funds for the Senior SAFE Program that educates seniors on the dangers of fire and its effect on people, property, and the environmentpolice-safety
• CMA 2020 #40Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of a grant from the State Executive Office of Public Safety for $10,655 to the Grant Fund Fire Salaries and Wages account ($8,855), Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($1,500.00) and Travel and Training account ($300.00) to provide funds to continue the Student Awareness of Fire Education (SAFE) Program that educates students on the dangers of fire and its effect on people, property, and the environmentpolice-safetyschools
• CMA 2020 #41A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-143, regarding a report on a pilot program with the Cambridge Housing Authority of assigning security officers with CHA premises in and near Central Square and The Portaffordable-housinghousing-generalpolice-safetytenants-rent📖 read
• CMA 2020 #42Transmitting 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 continued design of improvements to the DPW complex
• CMA 2020 #43A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-128, regarding ways the City is combating the city-wide rodent issues
• CMA 2020 #44A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 20-2, regarding a report on maintenance plan for public area bins on Cambridge Street with an emphasis on cleaning open-trash receptacles more frequentlybike-lanesbudgetclimate📖 read
• CMA 2020 #45A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 20-14, requesting an update on the Lechmere Station closure, the replacement bus service, and the community outreach that is planned
• CMA 2020 #46A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a Planning Board recommendation to adopt the Incentive Zoning Contribution Rate Zoning Petitionzoning📖 read
• CMA 2020 #47A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the Getting to Net Zero Action Plan Fiscal Year 2019 progress reportclimatezoning📖 read
• CMA 2020 #48A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the revised Surveillance Technology Impact Reportspolice-safety📖 read

Communications (26)

26 resident communications received for this meeting — housing general (4) · police safety (4) · affordable housing (3) · labor (1) · transit traffic (1). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (7)

• POR 2020 #41100% Affordable Housing Overlay Zoning Petition 2020affordable-housinghousing-generalzoning📖 read
• POR 2020 #35That the City Manager is requested to confer with the Department of Public Works and other relevant City Departments to determine the feasibility of limiting the number of Saturdays and holidays any one developer can be permitted for any one construction project
• POR 2020 #36That the City Manager is requested to confer with Director of Cambridge Public Libraries to determine the feasibility of eliminating late fines
• POR 2020 #37That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with all relevant City departments and agencies to implement an appropriate shut down time and lighting to add to the plan at Glacken Field
• POR 2020 #38That the Department of Conservation and Recreation reconsider a road diet and protected bike lane for Gerrys Landing Roadbike-lanes
• POR 2020 #39That the City Manager is hereby requested to confer with relevant City departments and the MBTA on the feasibility of implementing additional dedicated bus lanes, as well as fully separate protected bicycle lanesbike-lanestransit-traffic
• POR 2020 #40That the City Manager is requested to produce a Request For Proposal for the municipal broadband feasibility study that was called for by the City's Broadband Task Force in August 2016broadband

Resolutions (7)

• RES 2020 #49Congratulations to Manikka Bowman and Jeffrey Myers on the birth of their daughter Zyla Elaine Myers
• RES 2020 #50Congratulations on the Birth of Olympia Groban Robinson
• RES 2020 #51Thanks to Hilton’s Tent City for their participation in this year’s Warm Hearts for Warm Feet wool sock drive, and for being a local business that truly embodies Cambridge’s values
• RES 2020 #52Congratulations to Maria Fontellio on her recent promotion to Branch Manager of Eastern Bank in Watertown
• RES 2020 #53Happy 30th Birthday wishes to Michael Crossen
• RES 2020 #54Resolution on the death of Frederick A. Centanni
• RES 2020 #55Retirement of Donald Paine from St. Mary Parish

Applications & Petitions (2)

• APP 2020 #10An application was received from the Traffic and Parking Department requesting permission for a temporary banner across JFK at Mount Auburn Street to inform people about the 20 mph speed limits that are being implemented the banner will be hung from March 2, 2020 thru March 16, 2020transit-traffic📖 read
• APP 2020 #11An application was received from Rock and Roll Daycare, requesting permission for a projecting sign at the premises numbered 190 Concord Avenue approval has been received from Inspectional Services, Department of Public Works, Community Development Department and abutter📖 read 📄 PDF

Other Business (11)

• AR-20-10Report on renaming the Agassiz neighborhood
• AR-20-11Report on the process for renaming the maintenance area within the Ryan Garage at 147 Hampshire Street in honor of Sydney Cox, with this becoming known as the “Sydney James Cox Maintenance Facility
• AR-20-12Report on the feasibility of instituting a program to install rings on parking meters to expand bicycle parking optionsbike-lanestransit-traffic
• AR-20-13Report on expanding the Head Start program hours and adding additional scholarships to improve access to high-quality, early childhood educational resources
• AR-20-14Report on working in conjunction with the MBTA to provide an update on the Lechmere Station closure, the replacement bus services and the community outreach they plan on executingtransit-traffic

• a compilation of the Surveillance technology Impact Reports approved by the City Council on February 24, 2020 📖 read 📄 PDF
• a compilation of the Surveillance technology Impact Reports referred by the City Council to the Public Safety Committee 📖 read 📄 PDF
• a compilation of the Surveillance technology Impact Reports tabled by the City Council on February 24, 2020 📖 read 📖 read
• Surveillance Technology Impact Reports 📖 read
• a memorandum with comments on refilling the 100% Affordable Housing Overlay Zoning Petition 2020
• Proposed Amendments to the Harvard Square Overlay District Zoning Petition

Committee Reports (10)

• Public Safety Committee hearing of 2020-01-22 — Report Accepted
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Placed On File
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Placed On File
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Placed On File
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Approved
• Public Safety Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Referred To Committee
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Tabled
• Committee hearing of 2020-02-12 — Report Accepted
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Passed To A Second Reading
• Government Operations Rules & Claims Committee hearing of 2020-02-04 — Report Accepted