City Council — Special Meeting, August 2, 2021

City Manager's Agenda (5)

• CMA 2021 #181Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of an FY22 State 911 Department Support and Incentive Grant, received from the Massachusetts State 911 Department in the amount of $494,531 to the Grant Fund Emergency Communications Salaries and Wages account ($425,081), and to the Grant Fund Emergency Communications Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($69,450) which will support the costs of Emergency Communications Center personnel salaries and overtime and annual maintenance costs of dispatch-related software
• CMA 2021 #182A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a recommendation of the Cambridge Historical Commission to approve the final Landmark Designation Report for the Alberta V. Scott House at 28 Union Streetlaborschools📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• CMA 2021 #183Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) grant in the amount of $875,999.00 funded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($150,499.00), and to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($725,500.00) for the operation of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program serving Cambridge and Somervillehousing-general
• CMA 2021 #184Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of the Adult and Community Learning Services grant received from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) in the amount of $1,190,717.00 to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($1,145,357.00), to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($44,535.00), and to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Travel and Training account ($825.00) which will be used for ESOL services
• CMA 2021 #185Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of the Family Shelter grant received from the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) in the amount of $664,250.33 to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account which will be subcontracted to the Cambridge YWCAhomelessnesshousing-general

Communications (36)

36 resident communications received for this meeting — trees (25) · schools (9) · climate (7) · police safety (7) · housing general (6). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (14)

• POR 2021 #159That the City Manager is requested to confer with the Department of Human Service Programs, the Peace Commission, and other relevant City departments to explore the feasibility of providing Equity Roadmap with regular funding for Friday Night Hype
• POR 2021 #160City Council support of HD.3457 and SD.2309, An Act Relative to Electric Bicyclesbike-lanes
• POR 2021 #161That the Executive Assistant to the City Council confer with the Dedication Committee to designate a suitable street corner, square or the Pemberton Basketball Courts in honor of Xavier Louis-Jacques
• POR 2021 #162Policy Order Re Addressing Increased Gun Activity
• POR 2021 #163Support for Replenishing the Restaurant Revitalization Fund
• POR 2021 #164That the City Manager is requested to work with relevant City departments on how the City can change practices such that all projects will treat trees as essential infrastructuretrees
• POR 2021 #165That the City Manager instruct the Community Development Department to draft zoning amendments requiring special permits be required for research and development, laboratory and research facilities in the districts noted in the attached memorandum to ensure a robust community processzoning📖 read
• POR 2021 #166That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the appropriate City staff to establish a restitution program that would take a to-be-determined percentage of revenue from local cannabis sales and distribute these monies to current and former Cambridge residents who have been harmed by the war on drugs, with a targeted launch date of July 2022
• POR 2021 #167That the City Manager confer with the Department of Public Works, the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority, the Community Development Department, and other relevant City staff to discuss the feasibility of committing financial resources to assist in redesigning and/or reshaping the outdoor public ways, natural space and infrastructure including sidewalks, protected bike lanes and tree canopy at the southern edge of Jerry’s Pond along Rindge Avenue to make it more accessible, more green and more equitable and to create a welcoming entryway to Cambridge from the westbike-lanestrees
• POR 2021 #168That the City Manager be and is hereby requested to report back to the City Council on how the city is working to get City staff to 100% vaccinated and decrease the likelihood that COVID-19 spreads via City staff and in City Buildings
• POR 2021 #171Dedication Request Maura Leonard and Nancy Lawton
• POR 2021 #172That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to immediately reimplement and extend Cambridge’s eviction moratorium until at least October 31, 2021tenants-rent
• POR 2021 #169That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to appropriate sufficient funding to hire a City Manager Search Firm consultant
• POR 2021 #170That Councillor Simmons and Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler of the government operations committee review any RFPs or other search process produced to hire a city manager search firm consultant

Resolutions (18)

• RES 2021 #171Resolution on the death of Manuel “Manny” S. Resendes
• RES 2021 #172Resolution on the death of William P. Lane
• RES 2021 #173Congratulations to The Loop Lab for their expansion into Kendall Square, and thanking them for their years of dedicated service to the Cambridge community
• RES 2021 #174Speedy Recovery wishes to Mike Monestime
• RES 2021 #175Speedy Recovery wishes to Priscilla Lee
• RES 2021 #176Congratulations to Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins for being nominated to serve as US Attorney from Massachusetts by President Joseph R. Biden
• RES 2021 #177Resolution on the death of Neil Olken
• RES 2021 #178Resolution on the death of Priscilla McMillan
• RES 2021 #179Resolution on the death of George W. Gendron
• RES 2021 #180Resolution on the death of Robert Moses
• RES 2021 #181Resolution on the death of Robert R. “LB” Favreau, III
• RES 2021 #182Congratulations and Best Wishes to Erinn Pearson and Christopher Breedy on their recent wedding
• RES 2021 #183Thanks to Branville G. Bard, Jr. for his four years of service to the Cambridge Community, and in wishing him great success as he enters his exciting next chapter
• RES 2021 #184Congratulations to David Shane Lowry for being newly hired to serve as MIT’s first ever Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies
• RES 2021 #185That this City Council go on record expressing its appreciation to Gail Ranere Nunes for her many years of dedicated service to the citizens and to the City of Cambridge
• RES 2021 #186Amaya Bros Comics Congratulations Resolution
• RES 2021 #187Farewell and Best Wishes to Matthew McLaughlin
• RES 2021 #188Former Mayor Ken Reeves is a recipient of the James Baldwin Legacy Award and that the City Council go on record in congratulating former Mayor Ken Reeves on this tremendous honor

Applications & Petitions (3)

• APP 2021 #35An application was received from Ricky Zeng representing Moge Tee, requesting permission for a projecting sign at the premises numbered 605 Massachusetts Avenue approval has been received from Inspectional Services, Department of Public Works, Community Development Department and abutter📖 read
• APP 2021 #36An application was received from Gregory McCarthy, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 747 Cambridge Street; said petition has received approval from Inspectional Services, Traffic, Parking and Transportation, Historical Commission and Public Works. No response has been received from the neighborhood associationtransit-traffic📖 read
• APP 2021 #37An application was received from James J. Rafferty, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 600-624 Main Street; said petition has received approval from Inspectional Services, Traffic, Parking and Transportation, Historical Commission and Public Works. No response has been received from the neighborhood associationtransit-traffic📖 read

Other Business (6)

• AR-21-51Report on examining and implementing a flexible, permanent remote work policy for City employees who can perform their tasks remotely
• AR-21-52Report on examining stipend models for the City's multi-member bodies
• AR-21-53Report on examining safety improvements at the intersection of Ware and Harvard Streets

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• information about the Attorney General’s ruling on Calendar Item #3 (Charter Amendments) 📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF

Committee Reports (8)

• Public Safety Committee hearing of 2021-01-19 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2021-06-02 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Adopted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Passed To A Second Reading [Unanimous]
• Economic Development & University Relations Committee hearing of 2021-06-08 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Government Operations Rules & Claims Committee hearing of 2021-06-29 — Accepted As Amended [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Order Adopted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Order Adopted [Unanimous]