City Council — Regular Meeting, November 23, 2020

City Manager's Agenda (3)

• CMA 2020 #266A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a Covid-19 update📖 read
• CMA 2020 #267Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $9,277,190 from Free Cash to the General Fund School Department Salaries and Wages account ($7,446,360), General Fund School Department Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($1,781,455), and General Fund School Department Travel and Training account ($49,375), to fund additional costs associated with the reopening of schools with health and safety mitigations related to COVID-19budgetschools📖 read
• CMA 2020 #268A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a request to move to Executive Session to discuss the purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property

Communications (31)

31 resident communications received for this meeting — schools (6) · housing general (3) · broadband (2) · homelessness (2) · bike lanes (2). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (6)

• POR 2020 #272That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to explore the feasibility of hiring a consultant to perform an Equity Audit on the Cambridge Arts Council, and to report back to the City Council by January 4th, 2021arts
• POR 2020 #273That the City Council formally go on record in asking the City Manager to work with the appropriate City Staff in formulating an RFP for a public arts project that will acknowledge the unfinished work of the 19th Amendment, the importance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and how the two pieces of legislation ultimately complemented one another in helping to shape a more perfect union, and that the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back to the City Council on this matter in a timely mannerartslabor📖 read
• POR 2020 #274That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with the Community Development Department and other pertinent City staff to establish a Black and Brown-Owned Business Taskforce, to be focused upon strengthening the City’s outreach efforts, information-sharing, assistance mechanisms, and overall relationship with local Black and Brown-owned businesses, and to establish a rolling set of recommendations designed to ensure the City spares no effort in assisting these businesses
• POR 2020 #275Policy Order to strengthen community bonds and ensure equitable access to neighborhood organizations📖 read
• POR 2020 #276That the City Manager be and is hereby requested to appropriate the funds necessary to procure the work of the Collins Center as outlined in their submitted proposalcharterschools📖 read
• POR 2020 #277Policy Order to find a suitable location for a dedicated corner for Fred O'Connor

Resolutions (7)

• RES 2020 #284Congratulations to Representative Katherine Clark on being elected as the next Assistant Speaker of the House
• RES 2020 #285Solidarity with Urban Hearth
• RES 2020 #286Resolution on the death of Peter F. Colleary
• RES 2020 #287Resolution on the death of Dorothea R. Johnston
• RES 2020 #288Resolution on the death of Elizabeth Dexter
• RES 2020 #289Resolution on the Death of Francis H. Duehay
• RES 2020 #290Wishing Ruth Ryan Allen, co-owner of Paddy’s Lunch, a swift and full recovery

Other Business (5)

• AR-20-61Report on an update on City-Owned Vacant Properties Inventory
• AR-20-62Report on the feasibility of having interpreters at polling locations
• AR-20-63Report on a review of the granting of an extension for the 605 Concord Avenue project which appears counter to the City’s zoning code and confer with the relevant departments on how many projects that had a permit prior to these changes could request an extensionzoning
• AR-20-64Report on drafting appropriate Home Rule language which would allow for acoustic live entertainment performances in small businesses under certain conditions without a license

• (untitled) 📖 read