City Council — Regular Meeting, December 9, 2024

City Manager's Agenda (7)

• CMA 2024 #258A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to on update on the City's Rodent Control Programs📖 read
• CMA 2024 #259A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appointment of Zhonghe Li and Jean Dany Joachim and the re-appointment of David Daniel, Aliyah Gary, Lori Lander, Calvin Lindsay Jr., Ann Lawson, Stella Aguirre McGregor, Michael Monestime, Diane Charyk Norris, Katherine Megumi Shozawa and Christine Lamas Weinberg to the Cambridge Arts Advisory Board for a term of three yearsarts
• CMA 2024 #260A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 24-24, regarding a porchfest pilotarts📖 read
• CMA 2024 #261A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to an update on the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority Affordable Homeownership Commitmenthousing-general📖 read
• CMA 2024 #262Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $1,117,356.00 funded by the Federal Department of Health and Human Services and administered by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC) to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($163,078.01), and to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($954,277.99). The program assists with heating bills between November 1, 2024 – April 30, 2025housing-general📖 read
• CMA 2024 #263A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the proposed Bluebike bike share system contract term
• CMA 2024 #264A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 24-61, regarding lowering speeds on state highwaystransit-traffic📖 read

Communications (4)

4 resident communications received for this meeting — transit traffic (3) · housing general (2) · trees (2) · zoning (2) · police safety (1). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (3)

• POR 2024 #153That the City Manager is requested to work with the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department and Harvard University to restore Garden Street to two-way automobile traffic while preserving two-way protected bike lanes, preserving as much parking on and/or near Garden Street as possible and identifying potential areas for resident parking on neighboring streets and communicating the changes to the affected neighborhoodbike-lanesschoolstransit-traffic📖 read
• POR 2024 #154That the City Manager is requested to forward a letter to all Cambridge organizations working with immigrant populations, as well as all City Departments, reminding them of the city’s Sanctuary/Trust Act City status, the protections provided by the 2020 Welcoming Community Ordinance, and the importance of ensuring non-citizens are treated with dignity and respect
• POR 2024 #155Congratulations to SHARE CHA and its members on filing for union certification with the Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations; urging CHA management for a fair process, to recognize their bargaining unit without delay, and to begin good-faith negotiations expeditiously; and supporting the ratification of a just contract that considers the financial stability of the Cambridge Health Alliance and reflects the value of these clinicians and the patients they servelabor

Resolutions (5)

• RES 2024 #296Congratulations to CHA Board Commissioner Gerard J. Clark on his retirement
• RES 2024 #297Resolution on the death of Judith "Jay" Wilson
• RES 2024 #298Recognition of Cambridge Investment in Renewable Energyclimate
• RES 2024 #299Condolences on the death of Barclay Tittmann
• RES 2024 #300Condolences on the death of Jerry Dean Murphy

Other Business (3)

• AR-24-67The City Manager is requested to work with relevant City departments to review with a robust and inclusive community process the Cambridge Bicycle Plan, most recently updated in 2020, and identify potential improvements and consider next steps for a network of Separated Bicycle Facilities, and Separated Bicycle Facilities on streets across the city in order to facilitate safer travel and ways to coordinate routes with neighboring communities including Arlington, Somerville, Watertown, Belmont, Boston, and othersbike-lanes

• an update regarding legislative activity 📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• an update on the Special Committee on Charter Review 📖 read

Committee Reports (8)

• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2019-08-13 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2019-08-14 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Public Safety Committee hearing of 2021-10-14 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2021-11-16 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Public Safety Committee hearing of 2021-11-17 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Public Safety Committee hearing of 2021-12-21 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Public Safety Committee hearing of 2022-05-18 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Finance Committee hearing of 2024-11-20 — Accepted [Unanimous]