City Council — Regular Meeting, March 30, 2020

City Manager's Agenda (4)

• CMA 2020 #74Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $52,890.00 from Free Cash to the General Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account for the support of the continued operation of the Y2Y Youth Shelter for the next few weekshomelessness
• CMA 2020 #75A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the recommended reappointment of Christopher Bator as a member of the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority for a term of 5-years
• CMA 2020 #76A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 20-3, regarding the feasibility of purchasing sensory bags for Police vehicles as a pilot programpolice-safety📖 read
• CMA 2020 #77A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the use of the War Memorial Recreation Center and Field House on Cambridge Street, which is adjacent to and part of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School campus, for an emergency shelter for the homeless due to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergencyhomelessnessschools

Communications (2)

2 resident communications received for this meeting — homelessness (1) · housing general (1) · broadband (1). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (8)

• POR 2020 #66That the City Manager be and is hereby requested to work with the Cambridge Housing Authority and other appropriate personnel to enforce compliance with this order in publicly owned housing, publicly subsidized housing, and federally assisted housinghousing-general
• POR 2020 #67That the City Manager is requested to confer with the Director of Traffic, Parking, and Transportation on streets in each neighborhood that could be closed to all non-essential traffic for the duration of the Health Emergency and report back to the council as soon as possible. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS IN COUNCIL MARCH 30, 2020transit-traffic
• POR 2020 #68That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with DCR to explore closing Memorial Drive for the duration of the Stay at Home order to give people in Cambridge a safe space to exercise and be outside without violating social distancing practiceser. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS IN COUNCIL MARCH 30, 2020
• POR 2020 #69That the City Manager explore short-term solutions to expand essential internet access to Cambridge residents who lack it during the pandemic until such time that a municipal broadband network can be implementedbroadband
• POR 2020 #70That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the relevant City departments to give the Council a financial impact summary from April 1 to June 30, 2020 and how it may impact this current year’s/next year’s budget and free cashbudget
• POR 2020 #71That the Council stands in solidarity with the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe against the disestablishment of their reservation
• POR 2020 #72City Council support of SD.2888: An Act Concerning Business Interruption Insurance
• POR 2020 #73That the City Council go on record calling for the Federal Government and/or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to issue an immediate moratorium on rent payments, mortgage payments, evictions, and foreclosures until the end of the COVID-19 pandemictenants-rent

Resolutions (4)

• RES 2020 #86Congratulations to the Massachusetts Avenue Baptist Church on their 130th Anniversary
• RES 2020 #88Deepest Sympathy for the family of Pauline Paris
• RES 2020 #89Condolences on the death of Barbara Toomey
• RES 2020 #90Resolution on the death of Domingo Cook

Applications & Petitions (1)

• APP 2020 #19An application was received from Sam Kachmar, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 207 Lakeview Avenue; 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 association. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR ZONDERVAN IN COUNCIL MARCH 30, 2020transit-traffic📖 read