City Council — Regular Meeting, October 4, 2021

City Manager's Agenda (4)

• CMA 2021 #220A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to votes necessary to seek approval from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue of the tax rate for FY2022budgettransit-traffic📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• CMA 2021 #221A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appointment and reappointment of members of the Family Policy Council, effective October 1, 2021:
• CMA 2021 #222A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 21-22, regarding updating neighborhood organization lists
• CMA 2021 #223A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 21-33, regarding Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment standards in the review of development projects

Communications (9)

9 resident communications received for this meeting — schools (3) · bike lanes (2) · affordable housing (1) · housing general (1) · transit traffic (1). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (10)

• POR 2021 #204That the City Manager is requested to make available the appropriate staff and information pertaining to past efforts to establish a Green Jobs program
• POR 2021 #205That the City Manager is requested to establish a written plan designed to ensure that Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color will be recruited by the City, trained, and placed in leadership positions throughout the municipal government
• POR 2021 #206That the City Manager is requested to direct appropriate staff to design a Language Access Plan in conjunction with the Cambridge Public Schoolsschools
• POR 2021 #207That the City Manager is requested to re-establish the Community School Neighborhood Councilsschools
• POR 2021 #208That the City Council go on record requesting that the Neighborhood & Long Term Planning, Public Facilities, Arts and Celebrations Committee hold a hearing to discuss the ways the city might support residents interested in having pickle and paddle ball opportunities availablearts
• POR 2021 #209City Council support of the MIT Graduate Student Unionlabor
• POR 2021 #210That the City Manager is requested to present a plan, which includes funding, and the findings of any feasibility study of any DHSP and any other city department providing children and/or city youth programs, for rapidly expanding out of school time in the city to create enough slots for all families who need itschools
• POR 2021 #211That the City Manager is requested to convene a Caregiver Advisory Council that is overly represented by high priority families will be convened in partnership with DHSP that engages key stakeholders that includes, but is not limited to, the Agenda for Children, current and former out of school time staff and leadership, and out of school time community benefit organizations. Such a council will receive reports as ordered by Policy Order 2021 #201 that describe who applied and were enrolled, capacity, staffing, and outreach effortsschools
• POR 2021 #212That the Housing Committee hold a public meeting to discuss the property tax rate and progressive revenuebudgethousing-general
• POR 2021 #213That the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate City staff to affix the Indigenous Peoples’ Day Banner above JFK Street and Mt Auburn Street beginning on October 7, 2021 for no less than one week

Resolutions (14)

• RES 2021 #228Resolution on the death of Maryann (Iannacci) Cataldo
• RES 2021 #229Resolution on the death of Sarhad Karageuzian
• RES 2021 #230Resolution on the death of Dorothy (Bernarducci) Harr
• RES 2021 #231Resolution on the death of Lorna Hoover
• RES 2021 #232Wishing Joe Rose a Happy Birthday
• RES 2021 #233Resolution on the death of Michael “Trifty” Trifone
• RES 2021 #234Resolution on the death of Joyce Frith
• RES 2021 #235Congratulations to Jada Simmons Ononeme for being presented with the Mystic River Watershed Association’s Ripple Award
• RES 2021 #236Congratulations to the Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre on the success of the Dance for World Community Festival
• RES 2021 #237Resolution on the death of Donald Burroughs
• RES 2021 #239Late Resolution Commemorating Kittie Knox Day
• RES 2021 #240Late Birthday Resolution for Athelston Allayne
• RES 2021 #241That the City Council formally go on record in extending its deepest condolences to the family of Teresa Guzman for their tremendous loss
• RES 2021 #242Resolution Congratulating MAPS

Applications & Petitions (1)

• APP 2021 #42An application was received from MIT Visual Arts Center requesting permission for a temporary banner across Ames Street, Memorial Drive to Main Street 15 lights poles announcing Welcome back/Now Open, Contemporary Art Museum at MIT, MIT List Visual Arts Center from October 2021 until February 2022arts📖 read

Other Business (4)

• AR-21-66Report on reaching out to the owner of 689 Massachusetts Avenue to inquire about the prospect of selling this building to the City of Cambridge
• AR-21-67Report on working with the staff at the Cambridge Historical Commission, the DCR Commissioner, and members of Cambridge’s state delegation to approve, fund and execute the design and installation of a suitable historic marker by April 2022 to recognize the vision of Frederick Law Olmsted and others in transforming the Cambridge riverfront landscape

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Committee Reports (1)

• Health & Environment Committee hearing of 2021-04-14 — Charter Right