City Council — Regular Meeting, February 28, 2022

City Manager's Agenda (17)

• CMA 2022 #20A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a COVID-19 update📖 read
• CMA 2022 #21A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 21-97, regarding a report on creating a publicly accessible, list of violence prevention programs that exist in the City and to place this list on the City's websitepolice-safetyschools📖 read
• CMA 2022 #22A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the reappointment of Michael P. Gardner as a member of the Cambridge Retirement Board for a term of three years, effective March 1, 2022. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY VICE MAYOR MALLON IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022
• CMA 2022 #23A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appointment of Maxwell Solet as a new member of the Board of Trustee of the Cambridge Health Alliance for a term to expire June 30, 2024. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY VICE MAYOR MALLON IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022
• CMA 2022 #24A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to approval requested for new appointments and reappointment to Open Data Review Board for a term of two year. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY VICE MAYOR MALLON IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022 PLACED ON THE TABLE IN COUNCIL MARCH 7, 2022
• CMA 2022 #25Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the transfer of $25,000 from the General Fund Electrical Department Salary and Wages Account to the General Fund Electrical Travel and Training Account (Judgments and Damages) to cover medical services and/or prescription reimbursement costs for personnel injured in performance of their duties
• CMA 2022 #26A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to approval requested for reappointment and new appointment to the Water Board. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY VICE MAYOR MALLON IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022 PLACED ON THE TABLE IN COUNCIL MARCH 7, 2022
• CMA 2022 #27A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to approval requested for reappointments to the Fresh Pond Master Plan Advisory Board. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY VICE MAYOR MALLON IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022 PLACED ON THE TABLE IN COUNCIL MARCH 7, 2022
• CMA 2022 #28Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $650,000 from Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund Department of Human Service Programs Extraordinary Expenditures account to provide necessary repairs to the 3 swimming pools located at the War Memorial Pool Facility
• CMA 2022 #29A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to approval requested for new appointments and reappointments to the Mid Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Commission. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY VICE MAYOR MALLON IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022 PLACED ON THE TABLE IN COUNCIL MARCH 7, 2022
• CMA 2022 #30A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to approval requested for a new appointment and reappointments to the Avon Hill Neighborhood Conservation District Commission. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY VICE MAYOR MALLON IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022 PLACED ON THE TABLE IN COUNCIL MARCH 7, 2022
• CMA 2022 #31A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to approval requested for reappointments to the Half Crown-Marsh Neighborhood Conservation District Commission. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY VICE MAYOR MALLON IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022 PLACED ON THE TABLE IN COUNCIL MARCH 7, 2022
• CMA 2022 #32A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to approval requested for a new appointment and reappointments to the Historical Commission. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY VICE MAYOR MALLON IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022 PLACED ON THE TABLE IN COUNCIL MARCH 7, 2022
• CMA 2022 #33A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the City of Cambridge retaining its AAA rating from the nation's three major credit rating agencies📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• CMA 2022 #34A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the Climate Resilience Zoning Task Force Report. (Ordinance #2022-9)affordable-housingclimatehousing-generallabortreeszoning📖 read 📄 PDF
• CMA 2022 #35A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a request for approval of the special act that has been enacted by the Legislature and signed by the Governor, entitled “Chapter 19 of the Acts of 2022, An Act Authorizing the City of Cambridge to Use Certain Land for General Municipal Purposes and the Installation of Subsurface Geothermal Wells” at the Father Callanan Playground and Fields in conjunction with the Tobin Montessori and Vassal Lane Upper Schools Projectschools📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• CMA 2022 #36A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a communication from City Solicitor Nancy E. Glowa, relative to a further response to Awaiting Report Item Number 21-93 regarding a report on proposed amendments to the Municipal Code relative to recent charter changescharter📖 read

Communications (153)

153 resident communications received for this meeting — transit traffic (106) · bike lanes (87) · housing general (26) · climate (19) · zoning (15). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (12)

• POR 2022 #25That the Executive Assistant to the City Council confer with the Dedication Committee to consider the request for a street corner dedication in honor of Reuben Nathaniel Dottin, Jr. in the vicinity of Hews Street and Western Avenue
• POR 2022 #26Thanks to Ronald “R-Jay” Jones for his 50 years of service at the Cambridge Community Center, and in declaring February 28, 2022 to be designated as Ronald “R-Jay” Jones Day in the City of Cambridge
• POR 2022 #27That the City Manager is requested to amend all existing Community Host Agreements previously issued by the City by reducing the Impact Fee to 0.05% of Gross Revenue and to refrain from placing this burden upon any future HCAs that may yet be issued. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR ZONDERVAN IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022 PLACED ON THE TABLE IN COUNCIL MARCH 7, 2022📖 read
• POR 2022 #28That the Mayor is requested to schedule a Special Meeting of the City Council and invite the Mayor of Somerville, Somerville City Councillors, the Cambridge Police Department, the Somerville Police Department, and others to discuss how to work together to address the gun activity taking place between our youth in our communitiespolice-safety
• POR 2022 #29That the City Manager is requested to confer with the Economic Development division and other appropriate departments with the intention of conducting a study to collect relevant economic data relating to business impacts from bike lane installations, positive or negative, which will help inform future installations of bike lanes along commercial corridorsbike-lanes
• POR 2022 #30That the Executive Assistant to the City Council is requested to confer with the Dedication Committee to consider this request for a suitable dedication in honor of Janet Axelrod in the vicinity of Broadway and Trowbridge Street
• POR 2022 #31That a City Manager Search ad-hoc committee of the Cambridge City Council be formed for the purpose of reviewing and selecting self-nominated residents and stakeholders to be on the candidate preliminary screening committee
• POR 2022 #32That the Cambridge City Council calls for the Federal Government to reverse Title 42 and immediately halt the deportation of Haitian migrants, thereby allowing them to seek due process through our legal system to make claims for legal status
• POR 2022 #33That the Executive Assistant to the City Council confer with the Dedication Committee to consider the request from Councillor Azeem for a suitable location to dedicate a street corner in honor of Dr. Andre Gabor Borda
• POR 2022 #34That the City Manager is requested to work with DCR to pilot an expansion of Memorial Drive closures along any segments east of Western Avenue that could be used as parkland. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022
• POR 2022 #35Amendment to Chapter 2.78 of the Cambridge Code of Ordinance, entitled “Historical Buildings and Landmarks.” (Ordinance #2022-11)housing-generaltenants-rent📖 read
• POR 2022 #36That the City Manager be and is hereby requested to light City Hall blue and yellow this week in honor of Ukrainewar-peace

Resolutions (13)

• RES 2022 #36Resolution on the death of Trudy Joan Cox
• RES 2022 #37Thanks to Anne Shuhler and the entire Classic Graphx team for more than 35 years of exemplary service to the people and businesses of Cambridge
• RES 2022 #38Resolution on the death of Avram Goldberg
• RES 2022 #39That the City Council go on record thanking the TTT Mentor Program’s Mentees for participating in the TTT Mentor Program’s 2021-2022 session
• RES 2022 #40City Council thanks to the Mentors for enriching the lives of their Mentees by participating in the TTT Mentor Program’s 2021-2022 session
• RES 2022 #41City Council thanks to The Reverend Kathleen O’Keefe Reed for her years of extraordinary service to the people of Cambridge, and in wishing her well in her retirement
• RES 2022 #42Resolution on the death of Salvatore Fantasia
• RES 2022 #43That the City Council go on record thanking Izzy Maldonado and his family for over 41 years of serving up some of the finest comfort food in Cambridge at Izzy’s Restaurant & Sub Shop, and in wishing the family well as the beloved institution passes into memory
• RES 2022 #44Condolences to the family of Glenn M. Tegan for their tremendous loss
• RES 2022 #45Resolution on the death of Tommaso Sasso
• RES 2022 #46Happy 80th Birthday wishes to Peter Valentine
• RES 2022 #47Resolution on Green Line Extension
• RES 2022 #48The Cambridge City Council was saddened to learn of the passing of George Berkowitz, Cambridge native and founder of Legal Cash Market in Cambridge in 1950 and later, Legal Sea Foods, in Inman Square in 1968

Applications & Petitions (5)

• APP 2022 #5An application was received from MIT List Visual Arts Center requesting permission for 35 temporary banners across Ames Street Memorial Drive Main Street and Broadway announcing MIT List, New Art on View, Contemporary Art from February 2022 through October 2022. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR CARLONE IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022artsschools📖 read 📄 PDF
• APP 2022 #6An application was received from Dan Anderson, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 33 Webster Avenue said petition has received approval from Inspectional Services, Traffic, Parking and Transportation, Historical Commission and Public Works. No response has been received from the neighborhood association. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR CARLONE IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022transit-traffictrees📖 read 📄 PDF
• APP 2022 #7An application was received from Kelley Brown, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 301 Vasser Street; said petition has received approval from Inspectional Services, Traffic, Parking and Transportation, Historical Commission and Public Works. No response has been received from the neighborhood association. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR CARLONE IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022housing-generaltransit-traffictrees📖 read 📄 PDF
• APP 2022 #8An application was received from Dillon Lammers, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 1065 Cambridge Street; said petition has received approval from Inspectional Services, Traffic, Parking and Transportation, Historical Commission and Public Works. No response has been received from the neighborhood association. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR CARLONE IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022transit-traffictrees📖 read 📄 PDF
• APP 2022 #9A Zoning Petition Has been received from Craig A. Kelley regarding The Cambridge Transportation De-Carbonization and Congestion-Mitigation Bill. (Ordinance #2022-10) CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR CARLONE IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022zoning📖 read

Other Business (5)

• AR-22-8Report on determining the feasibility of establishing additional compensation for the City’s essential employees in accordance with the considered State legislation framework
• AR-22-9Report on options for spending ARPA money on direct support for households and individuals facing eviction, housing instability, and/or homelessnesshomelessnesshousing-generaltenants-rent

• an update regarding legislative activity 📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• a memorandum regarding Final Report of the Cambridge Advisory Committee on City Art, Monuments, & Markers 📖 read
• (untitled)

Committee Reports (5)

• Neighborhood & Long Term Planning Committee hearing of 2021-10-13 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Health & Environment Committee hearing of 2021-12-08 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2021-12-15 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Roll Call [0 To 9]
• Human Services & Veterans Committee hearing of 2021-12-16 — Accepted [Unanimous]