City Council — Regular Meeting, February 6, 2023

City Manager's Agenda (9)

• CMA 2023 #21Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $50,000 from the General Fund Employee Benefits (Insurance) Salary and Wages account to the General Fund Inspectional Services Travel & Training (Judgment and Damages) account. The funds will cover medical bills and settlements for personnel injured in the course of their job
• CMA 2023 #22A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number #22-81, related to improving marketing and communication efforts and outreach for the Cambridge Community Electricity (CCE) programclimate📖 read
• CMA 2023 #23A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Calendar Item No. 10 of 3/21/22 requesting that the City Manager amend all existing Host Community Agreements (“HCA”) 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, unless supporting evidence is provided by the City showing a finding that it incurred additional expenses and impacts upon its road system, law enforcement, inspectional services, permitting services, administrative services, educational services and public health services greater than the .05% of Gross Revenue collected from all the Economic Empowerment applicant and Social Equity applicant dispensaries annually
• CMA 2023 #24A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Council Order No. O-8 of 1/23/2023, regarding (1) whether there is a two year bar on considering repetitive zoning petitions that have been unfavorably acted upon by the Council, (2) if so, whether that bar on repetitive petitions would prohibit the Council from moving forward with a Council initiated lab use zoning petition if there is unfavorable action on the pending Callender, et al. Petition, and (3) if so, what types of changes to zoning petition would be Necessary for it. to no longer be considered a repetitive petition. FINALIZED FEBRUARY 6, 2023zoning📖 read
• CMA 2023 #25A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to relative to a request for approval to seek authorization from the Massachusetts Office of the Inspector General (the “IG”) for the City to use the Construction Manager at Risk (“CMaR”) procurement and construction method (the “CMaR Method”) in connection with the Danehy Park Gateway Pavilion projectbudget📖 read 📄 PDF
• CMA 2023 #26A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appointment and reappointment of members of the Recycling Advisory Committeebike-lanes
• CMA 2023 #27A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the Police Review and Advisory Board quarterly reports. REFERRED TO PUBLIC SAFETY IN COUNCIL 2.6.2023police-safety📖 read
• CMA 2023 #28A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a report on an itemized statement of all materials, tools, and property owned by the Cambridge Police Department. REFERRED TO PUBLIC SAFETY IN COUNCIL 2.6.2023police-safety📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• CMA 2023 #29A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a report on an itemized statement of all materials, tools, and property owned by the Cambridge Police Department. REFERRED TO PUBLIC SAFETY IN COUNCIL 2.6.2023police-safety📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF

Communications (74)

74 resident communications received for this meeting — climate (25) · transit traffic (20) · police safety (13) · housing general (13) · leaf blowers (11). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (15)

• POR 2023 #14That the City Manager is requested to instruct the Community Development Department to draft amendments to the proposed BEUDO language to change the net zero deadline from 2050 to 2035 and to propose language to meet that deadline throughout the document (From the April 20, 2022 Ordinance Committee). CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR TONER IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 6, 2023climate📖 read
• POR 2023 #15That the City Manager is requested to take immediate steps to begin the process of obtaining police body worn cameras for the Cambridge Police Department, and to work with all appropriate Departments to produce policy recommendations that would allow body worn camera usage while also not violating civil liberties in compliance with the City's Surveillance Ordinancepolice-safety
• POR 2023 #16That the City Manager is requested to determine the best ways to promote bike safety with a particular focus on expanding the distribution of bike lights throughout the City
• POR 2023 #17That the City Manager is requested to direct Police Commissioner Elow to work on providing publicly-accessible traffic stop, arrest and citation police data on a new Procedural Justice Dashboard as soon as possiblepolice-safetytransit-traffic
• POR 2023 #18That the Finance Committee Convene a meeting on Police Budget including body camera discussionbudgetpolice-safety
• POR 2023 #19That the City Manager is requested to look into the feasibility of automated traffic enforcement in Cambridge as well as using unarmed CPD traffic details for future discussion Automated/Unarmed Traffic Enforcementpolice-safetytransit-traffic📖 read
• POR 2023 #20That the City Manager is requested to direct the Police Commissioner to explore additional less-than-lethal alternatives that pose the smallest risk of injury when deployed for standard issue in the Cambridge Police Departmentpolice-safety
• POR 2023 #21That the Regular City Council Meeting scheduled for Monday, March 27, 2023 be canceled due to the National League of Cities conference
• POR 2023 #22That the City Council and the School Committee will hold a joint roundtable on Tuesday, February 14, 2023, at 5:00pm to receive an update from the City Manager, Superintendent, and the Cambridge Office of Early Childhood on the next steps towards the implementation of universal Pre-K in Cambridgeschools
• POR 2023 #23That the City Manager is requested to engage a third party, independent firm/consultant or university partner to review and examine the Cambridge Police Department’s policies and practices regarding de-escalation methods, mental health calls for service, training, and morepolice-safety
• POR 2023 #24That the City Manager is requested to work with the Community Development Department and all other relevant departments to engage with community groups and the City’s existing multi-member bodies to design the next iteration of the Cambridge Community Electricity Aggregation programclimate📖 read
• POR 2023 #25That the City Manager is requested to work with staff in the Cambridge Public Health Department to review the current state of mental health resources, particularly for underserved communities, within the Cambridge Health Alliance
• POR 2023 #26That the City Manager is requested to report back to the City Council as soon as possible on the request to increase overnight resident street parking options in the vicinity of Rogers Street in East Cambridgetransit-traffic
• POR 2023 #27That City Council rescind the vote to refer the Brown Petition to the Ordinance Committee and Planning Board for hearing because the petition is defective as a matter of law
• POR 2023 #28That the City Manager direct the Solicitor to provide a legal opinion to the Council regarding the Doug Brown petition

Resolutions (15)

• RES 2023 #41Congratulations to Stephen Lyons on his retirement from the Cambridge Police Departmentpolice-safety
• RES 2023 #42Congratulations to Janet Borron on her retirement from the City of Cambridge
• RES 2023 #43Congratulations to Dirty Water Fitness on its Grand Re-Opening and Expansion
• RES 2023 #44Resolution on the death of Norman A. Smith, Sr
• RES 2023 #45Congratulations to Chef Robert Harris and Season to Taste on its Grand Re-Opening
• RES 2023 #46Resolution on the death of Louise M. Kennedy
• RES 2023 #47Condolences to the family of Shirley Kimbrough
• RES 2023 #48Resolution on the death of William "Bill" Lee
• RES 2023 #49Resolution on the death of Marion Freeman
• RES 2023 #50Congratulations to Ilyon Woo on the occasion of the publishing of her second book titled "Master Slave Husband Wife."
• RES 2023 #51Congratulations to the Prospect Hill Academy and Community Charter School of Cambridge of being awarded the 2022 AP Computer Science Female Diversity Awardschools
• RES 2023 #52Congratulations to Julia Hallman and Aaron Rubin on their purchase of Formaggio Kitchen
• RES 2023 #53Resolution on the death of Alice Wolf
• RES 2023 #54Congratulations To 37th Annual NAACP Brunch Honorees
• RES 2023 #55That the City Council formally go on record in expressing its deepest condolences to the family of Jane Richards for their tremendous loss

Ordinances (2)

• ORD 2022 # 2An Ordinance has been received from Diane P. LeBlanc City Clerk, relative to Ordinance 2022-2 Chapter 2.02 entitled “City Council”📖 read 📄 PDF
• ORD 2022 # 9An Ordinance 2022 #9 has been received from DianeLeBlanc City Clerk, relative to create a new Section 22.80 Flood Resilience Standardsclimatezoning📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF

Applications & Petitions (2)

• APP 2023 #6An application was received from Heritage Flag Co. representing the American Repertory Theatre requesting permission for a eight (8) temporary banners along Broadway and eighteen (18) temporary banners along Massachusetts Avenue announcing the upcoming production of Wife of Willesden from February 14, 2023 through March 20, 2023📖 read
• APP 2023 #7An application was received from Kelley Brown, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 51 Vassar 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 associationtransit-traffic📖 read

Other Business (5)

• AR-23-2Report on the need for a special permitting process for cannabis dispensaries, special permitting fees and bicycle parking requirements that are required of local recreational cannabis dispensaries, to provide a report on how the special permit process, and these requirements may impact these businesses, to determine whether these requirements may need to be modified or eliminated,bike-lanestransit-traffic
• AR-23-3Report on determining the feasibility of purchasing the property located at 37 Brookline Street, former home of Peter Valentine, with the intent of utilizing this as a community arts spacearts

• an update regarding legislative activity 📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• information from the School Committee
• the Douglas Brown Petition 📖 read

Committee Reports (9)

• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2019-09-26 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2019-11-14 — No Action Taken [Unanimous]
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2022-03-30 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2022-04-13 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Passed To A Second Reading [Unanimous]
• Finance Committee hearing of 2022-04-20 — No Action Taken [Unanimous]
• Government Operations Rules & Claims Committee hearing of 2023-01-11 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2023-01-26 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Passed To A Second Reading [Unanimous]