City Council — Regular Meeting, September 20, 2021

City Manager's Agenda (4)

• CMA 2021 #212A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the recommendations of the Community Preservation Act Committee (CPAC) for FY2022affordable-housinghousing-general📖 read 📄 PDF
• CMA 2021 #213Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of of $5,000 received as a donation from Stonyfield Farms, Inc. to the Grant Fund Public Works Department Other Ordinary Maintenance account which will be used toward the costs of natural turf management practices by the Department of Public Works at City parks and fields
• CMA 2021 #214Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $199,736.56 received from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Shared Streets and Spaces Program Grant, to the Grant Fund Traffic, Parking, and Transportation Extraordinary Expenditures account ($199,736.56) which will be used to fund the installation of two new Bluebikes stations, as well as the installation of a new curb extension to create space for one of the new stationstransit-traffic
• CMA 2021 #215A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a request for approval to submit an amendment to the proposed Home Rule Petition for a special law regarding a fire cadet program for the City of Cambridge Fire Departmentlabor📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF

Communications (14)

14 resident communications received for this meeting — climate (4) · bike lanes (3) · transit traffic (3) · housing general (3) · tenants rent (3). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (9)

• POR 2021 #189That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the Community Development Department, the City Solicitor, and other appropriate City staff to compile a report detailing the efforts the City has made toward creating LGBTQ+-Friendly Housing over the past decade, to state what impediments had been identified in realizing this effort, and to outline recommendations for how the City may successfully create such housing within the next three yearshousing-general
• POR 2021 #190That the Executive Assistant to the City Council confer with the Dedication Committee to consider a suitable dedication in honor of Marine Corps Lance Corporal Roger Michael Hurd, who was Killed in Action and awarded the Purple Heart for his service in the Vietnam Warpolice-safety
• POR 2021 #191That the Executive Assistant to the City Council confer with the Dedication Committee to consider the request from Kate Rubin for a bench dedication at Danehy Park in honor of John Haydon
• POR 2021 #192That the City Manager be and is hereby requested to work with the Public Health Department and report back to the City Council on the milestones that will be used to determine when the indoor mask mandate will no longer be needed
• POR 2021 #193That section 11.202(b) of Article 11.000 of the Zoning Ordinance, regarding the linkage fee, be amended by substitution (Ordinance #2021-20)zoning
• POR 2021 #194Council Support of H.926
• POR 2021 #195That the City Council urges the US Congress to fulfill its obligation to prevent nuclear war, as outlined in the Back from the Brink campaign
• POR 2021 #196That the City Council go on record in support of Darwin’s UNITED
• POR 2021 #197That the City Council schedule a hearing of the Ordinance Committee for the purposes of amending the Ordinance of the City of Cambridge (Ordinance #2021-21)

Resolutions (6)

• RES 2021 #206Resolution on the death of Gary Stewart
• RES 2021 #207Resolution congratulating Kathryn Fenneman
• RES 2021 #208Resolution congratulating Ben Clark
• RES 2021 #209That the City Council go on record congratulating the Benjamin Banneker School on it’s 25th anniversaryschools
• RES 2021 #210An Act Relative To Language Access and Inclusion
• RES 2021 #211Congratulations to Isaac Yablo and Rebecca Hooper

Other Business (9)

• AR-16-111Report on the potential of building below market rental housing on City-owned parking lots along Bishop Allen Drive. On a communication from Councillor McGovern requesting that this matter be forwarded to the 2018-2019 Legislative Sessionhousing-generaltransit-traffic
• AR-21-59Report on creating a new section on the City Council’s webpage devoted to clearly outlining the various steps of the dedication request process, to post the criteria by which these requests are determined by the Dedication Committee
• AR-21-60Report on reviewing the residential parking permit program to determine whether the criteria for this program can be modified to limit the issuance of residential permits to vehicles that are primarily utilized for personal, non-commercial usetransit-traffic
• AR-21-61Report on the City’s rodent and pest control efforts since February 2020, to outline what metrics are being used to determine the effectiveness of these efforts, and to issue recommendations as to whether increasing the budget for these efforts, as well as creating new incentives and penalties to ensure community compliance with regulations around rodent control, would lead to a greater level of success in resolving this issuebudget
• AR-21-62Report on the feasibility of installing lights at all Cambridge dog parks
• AR-21-63Report on using only locally sourced produce, farmers, and resident gardeners to study the feasibility of spending Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to address food insecurity by installing raised garden beds throughout Cambridge and providing free, fresh, locally-grown food for residents in need

• memorandums from City Solicitor, Nancy E. Glowa regarding Minor Correction to Ballot Question No. 3 Which Is to be Placed on the November 3, 2021 Ballot Pursuant to Calendar Item No. 3 of 6/28/21 📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
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• a communication for Brian McLane, PE – Supervising Engineer, Department of Public Works in regards to updated information for Calendar item #1 Curb Cut a the location of 851 Cambridge Street 📖 read

Committee Reports (1)

• Transportation & Public Utilities Committee hearing of 2021-07-14 — Accepted [Unanimous]