City Council — Regular Meeting, June 22, 2020

City Manager's Agenda (12)

• CMA 2020 #134A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a COVID-19 update
• CMA 2020 #135Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of the Mass Cultural Council FY2020 Safe Harbors grant in the amount of $2,250 to the Grant Fund Historical Commission Salaries and Wages account which will support the Commission’s part-time archives assistant
• CMA 2020 #136Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $1,245 received from the Board of Library Commissioners (MLBC) to the Grant Fund Library Other Ordinary Maintenance account which will be used to support community summer learning programs at the Library
• CMA 2020 #137Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $500.00 from Cambridge in Motion, through the Cambridge Public Health Department, to the grant fund Emergency Communication Other Ordinary Maintenance account which will be used to support a program to encourage all staff to take on a monthly challenge designed to improve physical activity during the shift such as standing for fifteen minutes each hour or walking the building during breaks
• CMA 2020 #138Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a transfer in the amount of $65,000 from the General Fund Law Department Salaries and Wages to the General Fund Law Department Other Ordinary Maintenance account which will be used to cover cost increases related to litigation and legal matters handled by outside counsel
• CMA 2020 #139Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $1,641,000 from Free Cash, to the Public Investment Fund Public Works Extraordinary Expenditures Account for the first year of a two-year lease of operating and office space for the Department of Public Works on Mooney Street
• CMA 2020 #140Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $5,300,000 from Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund Human Services Extraordinary Expenditures Account to construct a new Universal Design Playgroundtrees📖 read
• CMA 2020 #141Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a recommendation of the Community Preservation Act Committee (CPAC) for an allocation of $1,000,000 from the CPA Fund Balance to the Community Preservation Act Fund COVID-19 Housing Stabilization Programhousing-general📖 read 📄 PDF
• CMA 2020 #142Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the authorization of a spending limit of $1,300,000 FY2021, for the Renewable Energy and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Revolving Fund, pursuant to Chapter 3.24 of the Municipal Ordinance titled “Departmental Revolving Funds”climate📖 read
• CMA 2020 #143Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of Federal CARES Act funds in the amount of $1,529,834 to the Public Investment Fund Community Development Department Extraordinary Expenditures account which will be used to assist residents and small business owners who are impacted by the virus
• CMA 2020 #144Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of grant in the amount of $613,262 from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through the HOME Program to the Public Investment Fund Community Development Extraordinary Expenditures account ($578,992) and to the Grant Fund Community Development Salary & Wages account ($34,270) which will be used to continue the development and rehabilitation of affordable housing in the City of Cambridgeaffordable-housinghousing-general
• CMA 2020 #145Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $120,000 from Free Cash to the General Fund Executive (Cambridge Office of Tourism) Other Ordinary Maintenance account which will directly support a city-wide campaign, “Hello Again” in collaboration with the City and the business community - to welcome businesses, customers, and the surrounding neighborhoods back by promoting health safety and positivity following the COVID-19 shut down

Communications (27)

27 resident communications received for this meeting — police safety (20) · labor (5) · climate (5) · budget (4) · transit traffic (3). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (16)

• POR 2020 #138That the City Manager be and is hereby requested to work with the appropriate city departments to place all collective bargaining agreements between the City and unions on the city website, in an easily accessible location, to increase transparency for the public
• POR 2020 #139That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the appropriate City staff to work with the Central Square Business Association in developing a pilot program that will allow Central Square to close to vehicular traffic on Sundays and allow restaurants to fully embrace the concept of outdoor dining for the summer months of 2020, and to report back to the City Council on this matter in a timely mannertransit-traffic
• POR 2020 #140That the City Manager be and is hereby requested to identify an air-conditioned space for a Cambridge Day Services Center for unhoused peoplehomelessness
• POR 2020 #141Anti-Racist Free Little Libraries
• POR 2020 #142That the City Manager is requested to provide a report by the end of summer for discussion at a September Council meeting on the advantages and disadvantages of continuing with Civil Service, and the process by which Cambridge could exit Civil Service
• POR 2020 #143That the City Council goes on record in support of the Stop The Money Pipeline movement calling on the insurance industry to not insure or invest in fossil fuelsclimate
• POR 2020 #144That the Cambridge City Council go on record in support of including a two-track Grand Junction railway crossing in MassDOT’s Allston Multimodal Improvement Project plans, and urges the FMCB to vote in favor of this inclusion. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR TOOMEY IN COUNCIL JUNE 22, 2020
• POR 2020 #145That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to immediately publish a list of all upcoming temporary tow-zones in the Port neighborhood and distribute this list to residents
• POR 2020 #146That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to obtain an itemized statement of all materials, tools, and property owned by the Cambridge Police Department. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS IN COUNCIL JUNE 22, 2020police-safety
• POR 2020 #147Green Energy Analysis Zoning Amendment. PASSED TO A SECOND READING ON NOVEMBER 2, 2020. TO BE ORDAINED ON OR AFTER NOVEMBER 23, 2020zoning📖 read 📄 PDF
• POR 2020 #148Policy Order Asking That Juneteenth Be Made an Official City Observance. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR ZONDERVAN IN COUNCIL JUNE 22, 2020
• POR 2020 #149Alternative Policing PO. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR ZONDERVAN IN COUNCIL JUNE 22, 2020
• POR 2020 #150Dispatching crews of hand-sweepers from the Public Works Department to Harvard Street (between Prospect Street to Portland Street) in the Port. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR ZONDERVAN IN COUNCIL JUNE 22, 2020
• POR 2020 #151That the City Manager be and hereby is directed to provide the City Council with an update on the formal Anti-bias /Cultural Competency Strategic Plan. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR ZONDERVAN IN COUNCIL JUNE 22, 2020
• POR 2020 #152That the City Manager confer with the City’s Housing Liaison and Multi Service Center to discuss a variety of long-term housing solutions and tenant protections and report back to the City Council on July 27, 2020. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR ZONDERVAN IN COUNCIL JUNE 22, 2020housing-generaltenants-rent
• POR 2020 #153That the City Manager includes the weekly COVID-19 Expert Advisory Board meeting notes on the following Monday nights City Council agenda for discussion starting on the Monday, June 29th meeting. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR ZONDERVAN IN COUNCIL JUNE 22, 2020

Resolutions (7)

• RES 2020 #165Resolution on the death of Malcolm Daniel
• RES 2020 #166Wishing Loretta Dupont a Swift Recovery
• RES 2020 #167That this City Council go on record congratulating the Super Seniors of CRLS class of 2020, in recognition of academic achievement for the top ten students and in recognition of the honor given to twelve students chosen for their demonstration of living up to the motto Opportunity Diversity Respectschools
• RES 2020 #168Resolution on the Retirement of Susan D. Breen
• RES 2020 #169That the City Council go on record commending and thanking the CHA maintenance staff for their heroic efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic
• RES 2020 #170Marco Almeid and Diana Gomes on relocating to Florida
• RES 2020 #171Thanking DPW Custodians

Other Business (1)

• information from the School Committee’s Special Meeting and Regular Meeting 📖 read