City Council ▸ 2024-05-13
City Council — Regular Meeting, May 13, 2024
City Manager's Agenda (8)
- CMA 2024 #97Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $39,600.00 to the Grant Fund Fire Extraordinary Expenditures account. The funds will be used to purchase new helmets and boots for recruits to respond to Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High Yield Explosives (CBRNE) events; two Electric Vehicle (EV) fire blankets will be deployed to Engine 5 and Engine 4 in response to the growing number of EV incidents; and new third rail testers will replace the current testers for Rescue, Training, and all 4 Ladder Companies
- CMA 2024 #98Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $37,018.59, to the Grant Fund Fire Extraordinary Expenditures account. Funds will be used to replace the current high-rise hose with new equipment which is more effective for battling high-rise incidents. Funds will also support additional rescue equipment (wingman, carabiners, rope and clutch) which will be used by rescue teams responding to incidents involving extraction of victims from emergency scenes such as construction sites, mass transit facilities and other responses which may require hauling of victimstransit-traffic
- CMA 2024 #99Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the transfer of $200,000 in the General Fund between School Department statutory accounts as follows: $200,000 from the General Fund School Department Salary and Wages account to the General Fund School Department Travel and Training account ($150,000) and to the General Fund School Department Extraordinary Expenditures account ($50,000)schools
- CMA 2024 #100A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 24-14, regarding a request the City Manager direct the appropriate City staff to investigate and determine what measures, if any, can be taken to mitigate the noise impacts of waste management disposal operations on residents in the North Point District while remaining compliant with existing legal requirements📖 read
- CMA 2024 #101A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appointments of the following persons as members of the Danehy Park Improvement Plan Working Group: Ty Bellitti, Sarina Canelake, Katia Crowley, Anthony Galluccio, Chala Hadimi, Emily Hoffman, Tsion Kebede, Frederico Muchnik, Mike Nakagawa, natasa Ristivojevic, Antonieta Salguero, Kathleen Riesing, Michael Siegall, Jason Targoff, and David Weylan
- CMA 2024 #102A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appointments of Raffi Freeman and Krissandra Robinson as well as the reappointments of Susan Schlensinger, James G. Stockard Jr., and Elaine Thorne as members of the Affordable Housing Trust for a term of three yearsaffordable-housinghousing-general📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
- CMA 2024 #103A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 24-16, regarding a report on developing ways to fund support of decarbonization and clean energy projects and technical assistance for property owners of all types especially those with limited resources, with an initial focus on work associated with BEUDO emissions reduction requirementsclimate📖 read
- CMA 2024 #104A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a request to move to Executive Session to discuss strategy with respect to litigation known as City of Cambridge et al., v. Lexington Planning Board et al. (Docket No. 2381CV01683), which is an appeal before the Land Court. Additionally, to consider the purchase of real property, O Cambridge/Concord Turnpike in Lexington, Massachusetts, adjacent to the Hobbs Brook Reservoir. Discussing this matter in an open session may have a detrimental effect on the negotiating position of the City
Communications (105)
105 resident communications received for this meeting — schools (39) · war peace (37) · police safety (35) · bike lanes (11) · transit traffic (8). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.
Policy Orders (3)
- POR 2024 #62That the City Manager is requested to direct the Community Development Department to work with the Co-Chairs of the Housing Committee to turn their vision of multifamily housing citywide into zoning languagehousing-generalzoning📖 read
- POR 2024 #63That the City Council calls upon the City Manager to take steps to bring support to efforts supporting Overdose Prevention Center legislation currently under consideration in the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives📖 read
- POR 2024 #64The Cambridge City Council go on record recognizing the first full week of May as Peripheral Neuropathy Awareness Week
Resolutions (5)
- RES 2024 #100Condolences on the death of Alessandra McSheffery
- RES 2024 #101Congratulations to the Honorees of the 2024 Inspire Awards
- RES 2024 #102Condolences on the death of Evelyn Doherty
- RES 2024 #103Congratulations and gratitude to Mark McGovern, Director of the Cambridge Healthcare of the Homeless, for his decades of compassionate service to our community’s poor, unhoused, and marginalizedhomelessness
- RES 2024 #104In Recognition of CASPAR’s First Step Team
Other Business (3)
- ARS-24-11AR Status Update 5.13.24climatehousing-generaltransit-trafficzoning📖 read
- AR-24-22Report on the summary of city efforts related to PFAS concerns, an update on educational information that can be shared with the community that outline actions individuals can take to reduce their exposure to PFAS, and provide an overview of the federal and state regulatory environment for PFAS in the wastewater stream