City Council — Regular Meeting, May 9, 2022

City Manager's Agenda (9)

• CMA 2022 #100A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 22-18, regarding a report on working with BB&N school to provide a solution to cars idling, stalled traffic, and blocked drivewaysbike-lanespolice-safetyschoolstransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2022 #101A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 21-99, regarding GLX project funding
• CMA 2022 #102A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 22-26, regarding a report on trash bin sizesbike-lanes📖 read
• CMA 2022 #103Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $200,000 from Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund Public Works Extraordinary Expenditures account to support the rollout of standardized trash bins and the collection and recycling of old trash binsbike-lanes
• CMA 2022 #104Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $155,000.00 from Free Cash to the Department of Human Service Programs Capital account to purchase a 15 Passenger Van for DHSP’s Child and Youth Serving Programs
• CMA 2022 #105Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of a grant from the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance funded by the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) in the amount of $7,601.29 to the Department of Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($3,200) and to the Department of Human Service Programs Travel and Training Account ($4,401.29) which will support the Carey Men’s Permanent Supported Housing Program operated by the Multi-Service Centerhomelessnesshousing-general
• CMA 2022 #106Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the transfer of $7800 from the Department of Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account to the Department of Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance Account which will be used to contract for Recovery Coaching services and provide better support to the men in conjunction with the services provided by the Multi- Service Center staff
• CMA 2022 #107A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 22-16, regarding Alewife Overlay District Zoning Proposal Working Group and POR 2022 #84 contained in Committee Report Item Number 1 of May 2, 2022 regarding CDD's current workloadhousing-generalschoolszoning📖 read
• CMA 2022 #108A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to updated information that was requested by the Ordinance Committee at its hearing on April 7, 2022, relative to the Alewife Overlay Districts Zoning Petition as well as a legal opinion from City Solicitor Nancy E. Glowa, regarding legal questions raised by the Ordinance Committee at the same April 7, 2022 hearingzoning📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF

Communications (11)

11 resident communications received for this meeting — police safety (7) · housing general (6) · homelessness (5) · broadband (2) · zoning (2). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (5)

• POR 2022 #87That the City Manager is requested to work to provide evening and weekend hours in two of our youth centers this summer as a pilot program
• POR 2022 #88That the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate City staff to light City Hall up gold on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2022, to pay tribute to those who have died for our nation and remembering their service and devotion to this country
• POR 2022 #85That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to instruct the Community Development depart to provide information to the City Council about how to add $1.94 linkage fee to Housing Contribution Rate that is specifically targeted for job traininghousing-general
• POR 2022 #86That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to get information from the Community Development Department to include, but not be limited to, funding received through the linkage program, that those fees be reported out annually, and including future projections by year
• POR 2022 #84Section 11.202(b) of Article 11.000 Special Regulations linkage fee., be amended by substitution. (Ordinance #2022-14) PASSED TO A SECOND READING IN COUNCIL SEPTEMBER 12, 2022 TO BE ORDAINED ON THE OCTOBER 17, 2022 OR OCTOBER 24, 2022 CITY COUNCIL MEETINGhousing-generalzoning📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF

Resolutions (4)

• RES 2022 #109Congratulations to Roberta Mattos on her retirement from the Cambridge Health Alliance
• RES 2022 #110Congratulations to Maria-Alice Smolka on her retirement from The Cambridge Health Alliance
• RES 2022 #111Congratulations to Cassandra Ling on being named the Executive Director of YWCA Cambridge
• RES 2022 #112Congratulations to Nikolas Bowie for receiving tenure at Harvard Law Schoolschools

Applications & Petitions (1)

• APP 2022 #21An application was received from John Tucker representing Nuestra, LLC DBA Boston Garden, requesting permission for an awning at the premises numbered 200 Monsignor O'Brien Hwy. Approval has been received from Inspectional Services, Department of Public Works, Community Development Department and abutters proof of mailing has been provided📖 read

Other Business (5)

• AR-22-27Report on the feasibility of mailing “Watch for Bikes” stickers to residents who have applied for a residential parking permit for the next application cycle in 2023transit-traffic
• AR-22-28Report on looking into the feasibility of placing a covered bike rack at City Hall using FY23 Capital Budget Fundingbudget

• COM 454 #2022 : communication was received from Robert J. La Tremouille, regarding positive news on the Grand Junction, WITH MAJOR CONCERNS. 📖 read 📖 read
• an update regarding legislative activity 📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• information from the School Committee

Committee Reports (5)

• Housing Committee hearing of 2022-01-25 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Housing Committee hearing of 2022-03-16 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Order Adopted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Order Adopted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Placed On The Table [Unanimous]