City Council — Regular Meeting, March 6, 2023

City Manager's Agenda (9)

• CMA 2023 #66Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the transfer of $325,000 in the General Fund between School Department statutory accounts as follows: $325,000 from the Salary and Wages account to the School Travel and Training account ($205,000) and to the School Extraordinary Expenditures account ($120,000). The transfer will be used to fund current and anticipated workers’ compensation settlement costs related to School Department personnel injured in the performance of their duties. The transfer will also be used to fund the purchase of a new electric van for the Rindge School of Technical Arts (RSTA)artslaborschools
• CMA 2023 #67Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of transfer of $205,000 in the General Fund between School Department Other Ordinary Maintenance account to the School Extraordinary Expenditures account. The transfer will fund the purchase of a new electric vehicle for Facilities Maintenance; the installation of new garage doors at the King Open School and CRLS; and to purchase a new CRLS Crew Sculling boat to replace a boat which is at the end of its cycleschools
• CMA 2023 #68A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Policy Order 2022 #181, regarding convening a North Mass Avenue Corridor District Zoning Proposal Working Groupclimatehousing-generalzoning📖 read
• CMA 2023 #69Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $150,000 from Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund Community Development Department Extraordinary Expenditures account to be used for professional services for a planning study for Massachusetts Avenue from Cambridge Common to Alewife Brook Parkway. Funds will be combined with existing balances from prior related projects
• CMA 2023 #70Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $250,000 from Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund, Emergency Communications Extraordinary Expenditures account. This appropriation will fund the replacement of critical infrastructure to support the City of Cambridge radio system
• CMA 2023 #71A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 22-78, regarding safety concerns at the LBJ Apartment buildinghousing-generalpolice-safetytenants-rent📖 read
• CMA 2023 #72Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a transfer of $40,000 from the General Fund Reserves Other Ordinary Maintenance account to the General Fund City Council Other Ordinary Maintenance account to cover current and anticipated costs related to the work of the Charter Review Committeecharter
• CMA 2023 #73A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, 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 2023 #74A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the Annual Surveillance Report concerning City Departments’ use of Surveillance Technology or Surveillance Dataartspolice-safety📖 read

Communications (27)

27 resident communications received for this meeting — housing general (16) · climate (12) · zoning (9) · affordable housing (3) · transit traffic (3). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (8)

• POR 2023 #42That the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate City staff to explore the feasibility of crafting a policy that will ensure that the City is notified whenever a high-rise building over six floors experiences elevator failures📖 read
• POR 2023 #43That the City Manager is requested to work with the Department of Public Health and the Parks Department to determine the feasibility of installing Automated External Defibrillators at all public parks and practice fields, and any other public place as appropriatepolice-safetyschools📖 read
• POR 2023 #44That the City Manager be and is hereby requested to direct CDD to provide language that would amend the Patrick Barrett et al. North Mass Ave BZ-5 Zoning District Petition to include the amendments proposed by the petitioner and report back to the City Council by March 13, 2023zoning
• POR 2023 #45That the City Council go on record in support of the Tenant Protection Act HD.3922/SD.2368tenants-rent
• POR 2023 #46That the City Manager is requested to work with relevant departments to assist BAY-CASH as they begin working with unhoused youth in Cambridgehomelessness
• POR 2023 #47That the City Manager is requested to confer with the City Manager’s Housing Liaison, Community Development Department, Cambridge Housing Authority, and the City Solicitor on the feasibility of municipally-funded housing vouchersaffordable-housingbudgethousing-generalschools📖 read
• POR 2023 #48That the City Manager is requested to fund the HEART initiative and negotiate a contract for services with HEART, to include but not limited to HEART responding to certain 911 calls. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR NOLAN IN COUNCIL MARCH 6, 2023budgetpolice-safety📖 read
• POR 2023 #49That the City Manager is requested to confer with the appropriate City departments to ensure multi-family properties on the market are reviewed as quickly as possible as potential affordable housing acquisitions. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS IN COUNCIL MARCH 6, 2023affordable-housinghousing-general📖 read

Resolutions (5)

• RES 2023 #72Congratulations to Robert Steck on his retirement from the City of Cambridge
• RES 2023 #73That the City Council recognize March as National Social Workers Monthlabor
• RES 2023 #74Congratulations to Sam Corda on his retirement from the Cambridge Water Department
• RES 2023 #75Resolution on the death of David Leslie
• RES 2023 #76Resolution on the death of Richard John Fitzgerald

Other Business (2)

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

Committee Reports (5)

• Finance Committee hearing of 2023-02-02 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Civic Unity Committee hearing of 2023-02-02 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Housing Committee hearing of 2023-02-08 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2023-02-28 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Passed To A Second Reading [6 To 3]