City Council — Regular Meeting, April 13, 2020

City Manager's Agenda (4)

• CMA 2020 #82A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to an update on COVID-19
• CMA 2020 #83A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appointment of the following person as a member of the Cambridge Health Alliance Board of Trustees for a term to expires June 30, 2021: James Henderson
• CMA 2020 #84Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the transfer of $50,000 from the General Fund Traffic, Parking and Transportation Fund Salary and Wages account to the Travel and Training (Judgment and Damages) account to cover current and anticipated medical services and/or prescription reimbursement costs for the remainder of the fiscal year for Traffic and Parking personnel injured in the performance of their dutiestransit-traffic
• CMA 2020 #85Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $215,450 from Free Cash to the General Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account to support the Homeless Shelter / Local Restaurant Community Meals Programhomelessness

Communications (44)

44 resident communications received for this meeting — transit traffic (24) · homelessness (10) · housing general (5) · budget (4) · bike lanes (4). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (9)

• POR 2020 #78That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to appoint and convene a Small Business Recovery Advisory Committee
• POR 2020 #79That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to appoint and convene a COVID-19 Advisory Committee to review the impact of the pandemic on local communities of color, to propose ways to better disseminate information on Impact to Communities of Color
• POR 2020 #80That in absence of revised City Council goals for the new term, the most recent approved goals are used in all Council business, particularly the budgetary process
• POR 2020 #81That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the Public Health Department to develop and implement stricter public health regulations to protect our grocery store workerslabor
• POR 2020 #82That the City Council go on record in full support of this petition and of Harvard graduate students as they courageously stand up for their needs in a time of crisisschools
• POR 2020 #83That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to light up City Hall blue to honor all frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Friday, April 17, 2020labor
• POR 2020 #84That the City Manager examine expanding the City’s jobs programs for those unemployed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
• POR 2020 #86That the City Manager is requested to work with appropriate City staff to determine a streamlined re-opening process for restaurants post COVID-19
• POR 2020 #87That the City Manager work with the Public Health Department, the Cambridge Health Department and our State Delegation to report back on how Partners Healthcare and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital are sharing resources with the Cambridge Health Alliance for the health and safety of CHA patients and Cambridge residents

Applications & Petitions (1)

• APP 2020 #20An application was received from Top Drawer, requesting permission for an external illuminating projecting sign at the premises numbered 5 Brattle Street approval has been received from Inspectional Services, Department of Public Works, Community Development Department and abutter mailing has been provided📖 read

Other Business (7)

• the 2019 Annual Report 📄 PDF
• Communicating regarding information from April 7 Regular School Committee Meeting and Public Hearing on the FY21 Budget 📖 read
• Communicating regarding COVID-19 Response 📖 read
• Communicating regarding COVID-specific Legal Coaching from New Leaf Legal 📖 read
• (untitled) 📖 read
• thoughts on planning for the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic 📖 read
• POR 2020 #85 : That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to repurpose the War Memorial facility into only a COVID-19 testing and temporary quarantine site for unhoused individuals awaiting their test results.

CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR ZONDERVAN IN COUNCIL APRIL 13, 2020 [homelessness]