City Council — Regular Meeting, March 8, 2021

City Manager's Agenda (9)

• CMA 2021 #38A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to an update on the COVID-19 vaccination rollout📖 read
• CMA 2021 #39A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the Annual Surveillance Report concerning City Departments’ use of Surveillance Technology or Surveillance Dataartspolice-safety📖 read
• CMA 2021 #40A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a Surveillance Technology Impact Report which describes landline location technology for the Emergency Communications Departmentpolice-safety📖 read
• CMA 2021 #41A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a response to a Policy Order that was adopted on December 14, 2020 as part of the Public Safety Committee Report from October 7, 2020, regarding data on ShotSpotter, OMEGA Dashbord and COPLINKpolice-safety📖 read
• CMA 2021 #42A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a summary report of all requests for approval of Surveillance Technology Impact Reports (STIRs) received by the City Council in the prior yearpolice-safety
• CMA 2021 #43Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of a grant received from the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) through the City of Boston’s Office of Emergency Management, in the amount of $25,000 to the Grant Fund Fire Department Extraordinary Expenditures account which will be used to purchase a security gate for the East Cambridge Fire Station parking lottransit-traffic
• CMA 2021 #44Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of a grant received from the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) through the City of Boston’s Office of Emergency Management, in the amount of $75,000 to the Grant Fund Fire Department Extraordinary Expenditures account which will be used to replace the existing 800MHz interoperability channel
• CMA 2021 #45A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a Planning Board recommendation on the Green Roofs Ordinance (Oliver, et al.) Zoning Petitionclimatetransit-trafficzoning📖 read
• CMA 2021 #46A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Calendar Item Number 2 dated November 2, 2020, which requested draft ordinance language to prohibit the use of tear gas in Cambridge📖 read 📄 PDF

Communications (10)

10 resident communications received for this meeting — homelessness (5) · labor (4) · police safety (4) · transit traffic (2) · tenants rent (1). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (5)

• POR 2021 #40Mobile Vaccines Policy Order
• POR 2021 #41Waiving Business Fees
• POR 2021 #42Honoring the Cambridge Lives Lost to COVID-19
• POR 2021 #43That the Cambridge City Council goes on record in support of the farmer protests in India
• POR 2021 #44That the City Manager consult relevant staff to implement universal Pre-K in Cambridge

Resolutions (7)

• RES 2021 #63Recognizing Pam Love's Heroicism
• RES 2021 #64Resolution on the death of Edith F. Pedro
• RES 2021 #65Happy 94th Birthday to Carmen Asencio
• RES 2021 #66Resolution on the death of Gilbert Arthur Ryce
• RES 2021 #67Resolution on the death of Daniel F. Murphy
• RES 2021 #68Resolution on the death of Tammy Marie Thibault
• RES 2021 #69Resolution on the death of Antonietta Rita Hayes

Other Business (5)

• AR-21-11Report on providing an update of the June 2020 budget agreement, including which of the positions listed in the agreement have been filled and if savings from leaving some police department positions vacant were used to fund the new positionsbudgetpolice-safety

• COM 120 #2021 : A communication was received from Carolyn Magid, regarding PO 2021 #36: Task Force Transparency

PO 2021#38: Shelter Wages. [homelessness, labor, police-safety] 📖 read

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• COVID-19 Update Questions 📖 read

Committee Reports (3)

• Health & Environment Committee hearing of 2020-11-10 — Tabled [Unanimous]
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2021-01-20 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Placed On File [Unanimous]