City Council — Regular Meeting, November 1, 2021

City Manager's Agenda (3)

• CMA 2021 #232A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to an update on COVID-19schools📖 read
• CMA 2021 #233Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of a grant from the State Executive Office of Public Safety, Department of Fire Services, in the amount of $187,500 to the Grant Fund Fire Travel & Training account ($20,000) and the Extraordinary Expenditures account ($167,500), which will be used for the purchase of quick response/safety Hazmat vehiclespolice-safety
• CMA 2021 #234A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 21-79, regarding proposed amendments to Article 8.12 of the Municipal Codeclimate📖 read 📄 PDF

Communications (7)

7 resident communications received for this meeting — transit traffic (7) · bike lanes (6) · tenants rent (1). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (4)

• POR 2021 #239That the City Manager is requested to direct the Assistant City Manager for the Department of Human Services to establish a pilot Winter Youth Employment Program
• POR 2021 #240City Council support of MIT Divest’s campaign to divest MIT’s endowment from the fossil fuel industryclimate
• POR 2021 #241That the City Manager is requested to instruct the Climate Crisis Working Group to include a recommendation and proposal to amend the Green Fleet Policy in their final reportclimate
• POR 2021 #242That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with CDD and Law Department to present 1) strategies for all buildings, not just the largest ones, while continuing to keep equity in mind, and 2) draft BEUDO amendment language, to a meeting of the Health & Environment Committee for review and consideration no later than November 8, 2021, such language to include emissions reductions targets that match or exceed the Commonwealth’s emissions reductions targetsclimate

Resolutions (6)

• RES 2021 #264Happy 105th Anniversary to Western Avenue Baptist Church
• RES 2021 #265Congratulating La Saison on one year in Cambridge
• RES 2021 #266Congratulations to Justin Casanova-Davis for his new position of Acting Finance Director for the Town of Brookline
• RES 2021 #267Congratulations to Richard Raposa on receiving special recognition for outstanding contributions to the Imperio Mariense Society
• RES 2021 #268Resolution on the death of Lawrence W. "Larry" Stone
• RES 2021 #269Resolution on the Death of Jonathan Backstrom

Applications & Petitions (1)

• APP 2021 #45An application was received from MIT Visual Arts Center requesting permission for a temporary banner across Ames Street, and Broadway 26 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 (6)

• AR-21-77Report on ways to report pedestrian and cyclist accidents in real time to residentsbike-lanestransit-traffic
• AR-21-78Report on in addition to stricter parking enforcement, a viable long-term strategy must be developed to mitigate the issues created by the removal of the metered parking spaces along Massachusetts Avenue near Banks Street to ensure that those providing home-based services to seniors in this neighborhood are fully able to do sotransit-traffic
• AR-21-79Report on reviewing the language of Ordinance #2021-24 proposed ordinance amendment
• AR-21-80Report on all work done on the Carl Barron Plaza redesign proposal and all feedback from the community including the unhoused community in conjunction with the petitionhomelessness
• AR-21-81Report on conferring with DCR on the possibility of extending the closure of Memorial Drive until at least the final Sunday in December 2021, if not longer, weather permitting
• AR-21-82Report on support of implementing key safety improvements on the Harvard Bridge, including flex post-protected bike lanes by the end of the year and bus lanes as soon as can be feasibly coordinated with the MBTAbike-lanestransit-traffic

Committee Reports (4)

• Neighborhood & Long Term Planning Committee hearing of 2020-07-15 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Health & Environment Committee hearing of 2021-05-25 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Health & Environment Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Order Adopted As Amended [Unanimous]
• Housing Committee hearing of 2021-06-03 — Accepted [Unanimous]