City Council — Regular Meeting, March 2, 2020

City Manager's Agenda (8)

• CMA 2020 #49A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Surveillance Technology Impact Report regarding video recording devices on school busespolice-safetyschools📖 read
• CMA 2020 #50A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a request for authorization to allow the Purchasing Agent to award a five (5) year contract to a successful bidder on the School Bus Transportation Bidschools📖 read
• CMA 2020 #51A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appointment of new members and reappointments of the following persons as a members of the Human Services Commission for a term of three years, effective March 2, 2020. New Members: Collin Fedor, Christopher Fischer and Kathleen Kelly. Reappointments: Julie Asher, Christine Elow and Rev. Lorraine Thornhill
• CMA 2020 #52A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the Harvard Square Conservation District Study Committee report📖 read 📄 PDF
• CMA 2020 #53A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-157, regarding the Cambridge Police Department Procedural Justice Dashboardbudgetpolice-safetytransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2020 #54Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $15,000,000 from Free Cash to the Affordable Housing Trust to assist in preserving affordability of units at Fresh Pond Apartments at 362 and 364 Rindge Avenueaffordable-housinghousing-general📖 read
• CMA 2020 #55A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the City of Cambridge retaining its AAA rating from the nation's three major credit rating agenciesbudgethousing-generalschools📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• CMA 2020 #56A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to an update on the proposed Eversource substation on Fulkerson Streetschoolstransit-trafficzoning📖 read

Communications (35)

35 resident communications received for this meeting — broadband (9) · zoning (8) · affordable housing (3) · housing general (3). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (7)

• POR 2020 #42Dedication Request for Brother Blue and Ruth Hill
• POR 2020 #43Policy Order re Preparations for Coronavirus Outbreak
• POR 2020 #44That the Mayor is requested to schedule a Roundtable/Working Meeting for members of the City Council and School Committee for Thursday, March 24, 2020schools
• POR 2020 #45That the City Manager be and is hereby requested to confer with the Economic Development Division of the Community Development Department to prepare a report on any steps it has taken to work towards developing a Vacant Storefront Registration Policy
• POR 2020 #46That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct staff to begin including a “Racial Equity Impact Statement” on all relevant agenda items including, but not limited to, appointments, appropriations, ordinances, legal opinions, policies, procedures and regulations, beginning on March 9, 2020
• POR 2020 #47City Council support for legislation that would allow for the adoption of fees on the transfer of real estate for use in creating new funding for affordable housing trusts, including H.2457, H.2552, and the consensus billaffordable-housinghousing-general
• POR 2020 #48That the City Manager is requested to confer with the Mayor’s Office, the Chief Public Health Officer of the Cambridge Public Health Department and other relevant City personnel to plan and collaborate events for Mental Health Awareness Month

Resolutions (7)

• RES 2020 #56Wishing Robert Travers, Jr. a Happy Belated Birthday
• RES 2020 #57Resolution on the death of Richard Gonci
• RES 2020 #58Resolution on the death of the Honorable Albert "Al" Burns
• RES 2020 #59Resolution on the death of Robert Buckley
• RES 2020 #60Retirement of Susan Lapierre from the Cambridge Savings Bank
• RES 2020 #61Resolution on the death of Sandra Vass Walker
• RES 2020 #62Resolution on the death of Lloyd Merriman

Applications & Petitions (2)

• APP 2020 #12An application was received from Alexandra Offiong, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 53 Bow 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-traffic📖 read
• APP 2020 #13An application was received from the Community Development Department requesting permission for a temporary banner across JFK and Mount Auburn Streets announcing Cambridge Energy Alliance from March 23, 2020 thru March 30, 2020climate📖 read

Other Business (6)

• AR-20-15Report on the feasibility of limiting the number of Saturdays and holidays any one developer can be permitted for any one construction project
• AR-20-16Report on the feasibility of eliminating Library fines
• AR-20-17Report on adding lighting and implementing an appropriate shut down time to the plan for Glacken Field
• AR-20-18Report on the feasibility of implementing additional dedicated bus lanes, as well as fully separate protected bicycle lanesbike-lanestransit-traffic
• AR-20-19Report on producing a Request For Proposal for the municipal broadband feasibility study that was called for by the City's Broadband Task Force in August 2016broadband

• information regarding preserving the affordability of the Fresh Pond Apartments 📖 read