City Council — Regular Meeting, February 8, 2021

City Manager's Agenda (6)

• CMA 2021 #22A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to an update on Covid-19 vaccination rollout📖 read
• CMA 2021 #23A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appointment of the following new members of the Commission on the Status of Women, effective February 8, 2021 for a term of three years: Sucharita Varanasi, Hiwot Behabtu, Sandra Middleton, Shamika Naidu and Rhonda Greene
• CMA 2021 #24A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the new appointment of the following person as a member of the Conservation Commission for a term of three years, effective February 8, 2021: Michelle Lane
• CMA 2021 #25A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to new appointments and reappointments to the Community Benefits Advisory Committee effective February 8, 2021 for three year terms
• CMA 2021 #26Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $1,000,000 from the Community Benefits Stabilization Fund to the Grant Fund Human Services Other Ordinary Maintenance for the purpose of entering into grant agreements with nonprofit organizations to provide services to vulnerable residents during the COVID-19 emergency and recovery
• CMA 2021 #27A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 20-52, regarding a report on what impact the Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping may have on the City of Cambridge📖 read

Communications & Reports from Other City Officers (1)

• COF 2021 #9A Communication has been received from Mayor Siddiqui, transmitting Information from the School Committeeschools

Communications (12)

12 resident communications received for this meeting — homelessness (7) · housing general (5) · zoning (4) · climate (3) · schools (2). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (5)

• POR 2021 #25Retail Table of Land Use Update PO. PASSED TO A SECOND READING IN COUNCIL MAY 17, 2021📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• POR 2021 #26Support for Universal School Mealsschools
• POR 2021 #27Support for Lifting Our Kids Out of Deep Poverty
• POR 2021 #28Redesigning Cambridge Voting Stickers
• POR 2021 #29That the City Manager instruct his staff to develop a ten-year infrastructure plan for the City Council that outlines all future needs and plans for infrastructure, public safety and public servicespolice-safety

Resolutions (7)

• RES 2021 #36Resolution on the death of Earl Moore
• RES 2021 #37Resolution on the death of Ezra Vogel
• RES 2021 #38Thanking the Expert Advisory Panel
• RES 2021 #39Alexander Joseph “Zandy” Bard Death Resolution
• RES 2021 #40Resolution on the death of Ziporrah Wiseman
• RES 2021 #41That the City Council go on record wishing Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui a Happiest Birthday and many more joy-filled and healthy years to come
• RES 2021 #42Resolution on the death of Eric Small

Other Business (7)

• AR-21-4Report on conducting a spending disparity study on City purchasing with businesses owned by minorities, women, veterans, disabled persons, LGBTQ+ individuals, and other historically disadvantaged groups
• AR-21-5Report on working with the local affordable housing organizations to develop a vaccination plan to reach out to the City’s senior population, as well as to the City’s minority communities and other underrepresented communities, that will establish a framework for the orderly onsite vaccination of these groupsaffordable-housinghousing-general
• AR-21-6Report on obtaining written documentation from the Cambridge Housing Authority, Homeowners Rehab, Inc., Just a Start, and the Community Development Department updating the City Council on the locations, unit sizes, number of units, overall costs, populations served, and expected dates of completion for each of the projects they reported on during the Housing Committee hearing held on January 12, 2021housing-general
• AR-21-7Report on coordinating with the Public Health Department and the Inspectional Services Department to establish random check-ins and assessments of public and private affordable housing sites currently undergoing renovations to ensure proper compliance with Covid-19 safety protocolsaffordable-housinghousing-general

• Data Collection from Transportation Network Companies
• Coming to Terms with Climate Change’s Relentless, Long-Term Fallout by Jonathan Shaw (Harvard Magazine November-December 2020)
• follow up information regarding Charter Right related to 605 Concord Avenue 📖 read