City Council · Regular Meeting, April 13, 2020

• City Manager's report2020 · #82📁 Placed on file, unanimousan update on COVID-19Submitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City ManagerCMA 2020 #82
• City Manager's report2020 · #83📁 Placed on file, unanimousthe 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 HendersonSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City ManagerCMA 2020 #83
• City Manager's report2020 · #84✅ Order adopted, unanimousthe 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 dutiesSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City Managertransit trafficCMA 2020 #84
• City Manager's report2020 · #85✅ Order adopted, unanimousthe 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 ProgramSubmitted by Louis A. DePasquale, City ManagerhomelessnessCMA 2020 #85

• City officer's report2020 · #21the 2019 Annual Reporttransit trafficCOF 2020 #21
• City officer's report2020 · #22Communicating regarding information from April 7 Regular School Committee Meeting and Public Hearing on the FY21 Budgetbudgetschools📖 readCOF 2020 #22
• City officer's report2020 · #23Communicating regarding COVID-19 Responsehomelessnesslabor📖 readCOF 2020 #23
• City officer's report2020 · #24Communicating regarding COVID-specific Legal Coaching from New Leaf Legal📖 readCOF 2020 #24
• City officer's report2020 · #25(untitled)📖 readCOF 2020 #25
• City officer's report2020 · #26thoughts on planning for the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic📖 readCOF 2020 #26

44 resident communications received for this meeting, on 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 order2020 · #78✅ Order adopted, unanimousAsks the City Manager to appoint and convene a Small Business Recovery Advisory CommitteeCouncil requestPOR 2020 #78
• Policy order2020 · #79✅ Order adopted, unanimousAsks the City Manager 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 ColorCouncil requestPOR 2020 #79
• Policy order2020 · #80✅ Order adopted, 8–0That 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 processPOR 2020 #80
• Policy order2020 · #81✅ Order adopted as amended, unanimousAsks the City Manager to confer with the Public Health Department to develop and implement stricter public health regulations to protect our grocery store workersCouncil requestlaborPOR 2020 #81
• Policy order2020 · #82✅ Order adopted, unanimousCity 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 crisisCouncil orderschoolsPOR 2020 #82
• Policy order2020 · #83✅ Order adopted, unanimousAsks the City Manager to light up City Hall blue to honor all frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Friday, April 17, 2020Council requestlaborPOR 2020 #83
• Policy order2020 · #84✅ Order adopted, unanimousCity Manager examine expanding the City’s jobs programs for those unemployed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemicCouncil orderPOR 2020 #84
• Policy order2020 · #85POR 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 resultsPOR 2020 #85
• Policy order2020 · #86✅ Order adopted as amended, unanimousAsks the City Manager to work with appropriate City staff to determine a streamlined re-opening process for restaurants post COVID-19Council requestPOR 2020 #86
• Policy order2020 · #87✅ Order adopted, unanimousCity 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 residentsCouncil orderPOR 2020 #87

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

• Application / petition2020 · #20✅ Order adopted, unanimousan external illuminating projecting sign at the premises numbered 5 Brattle StreetApplication from Top Drawer📖 readapproval has been received from Inspectional Services, Department of Public Works, CommuniAPP 2020 #20