City Council — Regular Meeting, January 31, 2022

City Manager's Agenda (8)

• CMA 2022 #10A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 21-93, regarding proposed amendments to the Municipal Code relative to recent charter changes. (Ordinance #2022-2) CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR NOLAN IN COUNCIL JANUARY 31, 2022charter📖 read 📄 PDF
• CMA 2022 #11A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 21-77, regarding a report on ways to report pedestrian and cycling crashes using real-time reportingbike-lanespolice-safetytransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2022 #12A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 22-5, regarding pedestrian safety on Broadway at CRLSclimateschoolstransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2022 #13A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 21-85, which requesting a report on potential modifications or adjustments to the recent improvements that were made on the segment of Massachusetts Avenue from Dudley Street to Alewife Brook Parkway
• CMA 2022 #14A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 22-1, regarding the feasibility of creating a Cycling Safety Ordinance Advisory groupbike-lanes
• CMA 2022 #15A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a Planning Board recommendation to not adopt the Cushing, et al., Zoning Petitionaffordable-housinghousing-generaltransit-trafficzoning📖 read
• CMA 2022 #16A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a Planning Board recommendation not to adopt the Yamin, et al., Zoning Petitionaffordable-housinghousing-generalzoning📖 read
• CMA 2022 #17A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a Planning Board recommendation not to adopt the Francis Donovan, et al., Zoning Petitionhousing-generalschoolstransit-trafficzoning📖 read

Communications (17)

17 resident communications received for this meeting — bike lanes (9) · transit traffic (7) · trees (4) · climate (3) · police safety (2). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (3)

• POR 2022 #13That the City Council go on record recognizing February 2022 as Black History Month in the City of Cambridge
• POR 2022 #14Wage Theft Ordinance (Ordinance #2022-3)
• POR 2022 #15That the City Council and School Committee hold a joint virtual roundtable on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 to discuss priorities for the FY23. Budgetbudgetschools

Resolutions (7)

• RES 2022 #20Congratulations to the City Manager’s Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Awardees
• RES 2022 #21Condolences to the family of State Senator Bill Owens
• RES 2022 #22Congratulations to Deval Patrick on the occasion of his new role at the Kennedy School of Government’s Center for Public Leadershipschools
• RES 2022 #23Resolution on the death of Doris Cyr
• RES 2022 #24Resolution on the death of Eleanor Vailliant
• RES 2022 #25Congratulations to Peter Ciurczak and Elizabeth McIntyre on the birth of their daughter, June Ciurczak-McIntyre
• RES 2022 #26That the City Council and City of Cambridge go on record thanking Officer Albert for his long and honorable service to the City of Cambridge

Applications & Petitions (1)

• APP 2022 #2An application was received from Heather Dudko representing Citizens Bank, requesting permission for a projecting sign externally illuminated by spot at the premises numbered 698 Massachusetts Avenue approval has been received from Inspectional Services, Department of Public Works, Community Development Department and abutter📖 read 📄 PDF

Other Business (6)

• AR-22-5Report on determining what safety improvements could be made to the area in front of CRLS and the crosswalk on Broadwaytransit-traffic
• AR-22-6Report on the feasibility of expediting the Demolition and Rebuilding permitting process in the event of a natural disaster

• an update regarding legislative activity 📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• a response to Charter Right item #1 📖 read
• the January 2022 report on homelessness in Cambridge 📖 read
• information from the School Committee

Committee Reports (1)

• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2021-12-08 — Accepted [Unanimous]