City Council — Regular Meeting, March 1, 2021

City Manager's Agenda (3)

• CMA 2021 #35A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to an update on the COVID-19 vaccination rollout📖 read
• CMA 2021 #36A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to additional information and revised Financial Analysis for the Alewife Zoning Petitionzoning📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• CMA 2021 #37A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the City of Cambridge retaining its AAA rating from the nation's three major credit rating agenciesbudget📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF

Communications (11)

11 resident communications received for this meeting — police safety (5) · zoning (4) · transit traffic (4) · homelessness (2) · labor (2). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (4)

• POR 2021 #35Lowell Street Property
• POR 2021 #36Task Force Transparency RECONSIDERATION FILED BY COUNCILLOR ZONDERVAN ON MARCH 9, 2021 motion for reconsideration failed 4 yeas, 5 nays📖 read
• POR 2021 #37Budget Reallocation Updatebudget
• POR 2021 #38Shelter Wages CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR ZONDERVAN IN COUNCIL MARCH 1, 2021homelessness

Resolutions (5)

• RES 2021 #58Congratulating Gather Here on its 10th Anniversary
• RES 2021 #59Congratulations to Roger Lau for being hired as the Deputy Executive Director to the Democratic National Convention
• RES 2021 #60COVID-19 Memorial Day
• RES 2021 #61Resolution on the death of Arlene Delaney
• RES 2021 #62Happy 80th Birthday to Fredrika Steen

Applications & Petitions (3)

• APP 2021 #5An application was received from Patrick Conte, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 303 Binney Street; said petition has received approval from Inspectional Services, Traffic, Parking and Transportation, Historical Commission and Public Works. Response has been received from the neighborhood associationtransit-traffic📖 read
• APP 2021 #6An application was received from TD Bank, requesting permission for 4 (four) awnings at the premises numbered 617 Massachusetts Avenue. Approval has been received from Inspectional Services, Department of Public Works, Community Development Department and abutters📖 read
• APP 2021 #7ORDINANCE 2021-6: A Zoning Petition Has been received from Beals Associates Inc. regarding Broad Canal Subdistrict Zoning Petition as submitted with strike outslaborzoning📖 read 📄 PDF

Other Business (5)

• AR-21-9Report on providing an overview of various programs and services that are designed to assist the City’s chronically unhoused population and those in danger of becoming unhoused, along with the metrics by which the City determines the effectiveness of these programshomelessness
• AR-21-10Report on whether or not the City can require written notice be sent to all abutters, both property owners as well as tenants, regarding the scheduling of a hearing regarding the extension of a building permit request to the Planning Boardtenants-rent

• COM 98 #2021 : A communication was received from James J. Rafferty, regarding curb cut application 105729

303-325 Binney Street. 📖 read 📄 PDF

• questions for the COVID-19 update 📖 read
• (untitled)

Committee Reports (4)

• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2020-12-16 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2021-02-10 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2021-02-16 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Passed To A Second Reading [6 To 3]