City Council — Regular Meeting, December 13, 2021

City Manager's Agenda (6)

• CMA 2021 #274Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $64,230 from Free Cash to the General Fund Elections Department Salary and Wages account ($24,700), to the Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($38,930) and to the Travel and Training account ($600), to cover the additional costs associated with the Special State Primary and Special State Election for the 1st Suffolk and Middlesex Senate District to fill the vacancy formerly held by State Senator Joseph A. Boncore
• CMA 2021 #275A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appointment of Kimberly Massenburg, PH.D., Executive Director of the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House as a member of the Community Benefits Advisory Committee for a term of three years, effective December 13, 2021, as recommended by the Cambridge Nonprofit Coalition
• CMA 2021 #276A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appointment of Police Department Deputy Superintendent Frederick Cabral as a member of the Human Services Commission for a term of three years, effective December 13, 2021police-safety
• CMA 2021 #277A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 21-87, regarding a report on senior scam prevention effortshousing-generalpolice-safety📖 read
• CMA 2021 #278A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to new appointments and reappointments of the following persons as members of the Cambridge Immigrant Rights & Citizenship for a term of three years, effective December 13, 2021 - New Appointments: Eva Gottschalk, Abhishek Raman and Joe Manok. Reappointments: Karim El Razzaz and Jennifer Sparks
• CMA 2021 #279A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to new appointments and reappointments of the following persons as a members of the Human Rights Commission for a term of three years, effective December 13, 2021 - New Appointments: Stephen Curran and Judith Laguerre and Reappointments: Yasmin Padamsee Forbes

Communications (26)

26 resident communications received for this meeting — climate (12) · transit traffic (6) · bike lanes (4) · housing general (4) · homelessness (3). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (8)

• POR 2021 #268Fossil Fuel Special Permit Policy Orderclimatezoning📖 read
• POR 2021 #269That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with the Election Commission to send voter notification cards for both primary and general special elections
• POR 2021 #270COVID19 Expert Advisory Panel
• POR 2021 #271That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with the Department of Human Service Programs, the Cambridge Police Department, and other relevant departments to create a publicly accessible, comprehensive list of violence prevention programs that exist in the city and to place this list on the City’s websitepolice-safety
• POR 2021 #272Reaffirming Commitment to the Goal of 100% Renewable by 2035climate
• POR 2021 #273That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with the Director of Traffic, Parking, and Transportation and Divco West regarding the spending plan and possible reallocation for the anticipated GLX refunds, and to report to the City Council on the use of GLX Project Participation Agreement funding in a timely mannertransit-traffic
• POR 2021 #274That the City manager be and hereby is requested to instruct the city solicitor to provide a report to the city council on ways either the city or another entity can provide financial assistance to Group A Priority applicants in order to assist them in opening their businesses
• POR 2021 #275That the City manager be and hereby is requested to instruct the Community Development Department in collaboration with EE and SE applicants create a standard operating procedure document and that the city determine a single point of contact throughout the process to assist applicants in streamlining the application process

Resolutions (7)

• RES 2021 #300Resolution on the death of Death of Georgina Ober (Estrella)
• RES 2021 #301Resolution on the death of Idalyn (Parise) Nicoloro
• RES 2021 #302Retirement of Loyd Lewis from the Cambridge Police Departmentpolice-safety
• RES 2021 #303Congratulations to Rachael Rollins
• RES 2021 #304Wishing Danielle Mishkin a Happy Birthday
• RES 2021 #305Congratulations to Dr. Norma Finkelstein
• RES 2021 #306Congratulating Silkroad Ensemble

Other Business (6)

• AR-21-91Report on what the standard public process will be prior to implementing new sections of bike lanes, and what general evaluation process will take place post-installationbike-lanes
• AR-21-92Report on establishing a plan that will enable Covid-19 home testing to be conducted for seniors and those with significant mobility impediments
• AR-21-93Report on instructing the City Solicitor to draft the appropriate ordinance amendments for the City Council to review following the recent charter amendments

• an update regarding legislative activity 📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• COF 2021 #112 : A communication was received from Councillor Simmons, transmitting an update to the members of the

City Council and to the public on the process around the search for the City’s next city manager. 📖 read

• proposed amendments to Calendar #1 📖 read

Committee Reports (3)

• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2021-09-09 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Order Adopted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Order Adopted [Unanimous]