City Council ▸ 2022-11-07
City Council — Regular Meeting, November 7, 2022
City Manager's Agenda (13)
- CMA 2022 #211Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of the Safer Communities Initiative Edward J. Byrne Justice Assistance Grant, received from the state Executive Office of Public Safety and Security’s Office of Grants and Research, through the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office, in the amount of $10,043.47, to the Grant Fund Police Department Salary and Wages account, which will be used to support overtime costs for patrols in areas where gun violence is known to occur and help increase the visibility and presence of officers in the area to suppress violence, and support the communitypolice-safety
- CMA 2022 #212A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to approval requested for an appointment new members of the Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD)
- CMA 2022 #213A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 22-58 , regarding directing the appropriate City staff to establish a fund designed to assist those City employees in same-sex marriages with paying for surrogacy services📖 read
- CMA 2022 #214A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a Planning Board report with a recommendation to adopt the Incentive Zoning Rate Study Petition, with clarifying changeshousing-generalzoning📖 read
- CMA 2022 #215Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $600,000 from Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund Human Service Programs Extraordinary Expenditures account, to support softball field improvements at Danehy Park
- CMA 2022 #216Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of the Adult and Community Learning Services grant received from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) in the amount of $6,000.00 to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account, which will be used to pay for a portion of teachers’ salaries to participate in The Standards That Matter (TSTM) Train the Trainer Academiesschools
- CMA 2022 #217Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of various donations to the Council on Aging in the amount of $42,317.09 to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account, which will be used to support services for Cambridge Older Adults, including food and entertainment for Senior Center events, the purchase of fans for low-income seniors, support of social groups and transportation for Senior Center trips
- CMA 2022 #218Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $9,615.00 received from the Cambridge Public Health Commission, Agenda for Children, to the Grant Fund Department of Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account for the Center for Families program, these funds will be used to provide family programming and curriculum development, pre-bagged refreshments for outside and in-person events and activity bag giveaways
- CMA 2022 #219Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of of $15,000.00, received from the Cambridge Community Foundation, to the Grant Fund Human Service Department Programs Salary and Wages account for the College Success Initiative (CSI)
- CMA 2022 #220Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance grant funded by the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) in the amount of $103,339.03 to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($68,889.03), and to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($34,450.00), which will be used for costs related to the Carey Men’s Permanent Supported Housing Program operated by the Multi-Service Centerhomelessnesshousing-general
- CMA 2022 #221Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $1,057.58 from a preschool family fundraiser to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account, which will be used to support the cost of music enrichment sessions for the children
- CMA 2022 #222Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of a grant received from AECOM Technology Corporation, in the amount of $5,000.00, to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account, which will be used to support the wages of one Cambridge teen summer internship
- CMA 2022 #223Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of donations to The Cambridge Program for Individuals with Special Needs in the amount of $12,872.92 to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account, which will be used to support the participants of The Cambridge Program and will be used to purchase supplies and equipment to better support participant and program needs
Communications (79)
79 resident communications received for this meeting — transit traffic (63) · bike lanes (36) · schools (8) · zoning (6) · housing general (4). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.
Policy Orders (7)
- POR 2022 #282Policy Order Regarding Traffic Flow on Garden Streettransit-traffic📖 read 📄 PDF
- POR 2022 #283Ban Turns on Red Citywidebike-lanestransit-traffic📖 read
- POR 2022 #284Policy Order to Light Up City Hall in Purple on November 17, 2022 for World Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Day
- POR 2022 #285MBTA Passtransit-traffic
- POR 2022 #286Roundtable on Broadband
- POR 2022 #287Capitol Projects Finance Meeting
- POR 2022 #288Revised MBTA Bus Redesignclimatelaborschoolstransit-traffic📖 read
Resolutions (6)
- RES 2022 #289Resolution Re Harvard Clerical and Technical Workers Unionlabor
- RES 2022 #290Resolution on the death of Mary E. Hunter
- RES 2022 #291Veterans Day
- RES 2022 #292Congratulating Bom Dough
- RES 2022 #293Congratulating Simeon and Dora Stefanidakis on Their Retirement
- RES 2022 #294That the City Council formally go on record in congratulating Becca and Bradley St. Amand on the birth of their daughter, Ella Madelyn