City Council ▸ 2024-12-16
City Council — Regular Meeting, December 16, 2024
3 City Manager's Agenda372 Communications4 Policy Orders4 Resolutions4 Other Business13 Committee Reports
City Manager's Agenda (3)
- CMA 2024 #265A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the re-appointment of Judith Laguerre, Yasmin Padamsee Forbes, and Stephen Curran as members of the Cambridge Human Rights Commission for a term of three-years📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
- CMA 2024 #266A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Policy Order 2024 #141, regarding the BZA Dormers Petitionzoning📖 read
- CMA 2024 #267A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the Planning Board Report regarding the flexible parking zoning petitiontransit-trafficzoning📖 read
Communications (372)
372 resident communications received for this meeting — transit traffic (289) · bike lanes (133) · schools (46) · housing general (16) · climate (14). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.
Policy Orders (4)
- POR 2024 #157That the City Council meeting scheduled for January 13, 2025 be designated as a Joint Roundtable of the City Council and School Committee to discuss the City’s universal pre-kindergarten programschools
- POR 2024 #158That the City Council approve and issue the City Manager’s Performance Evaluation
- POR 2024 #159That the City Council intends to renew the City Manager’s employment beyond September 5, 2025, and initiate negotiations for a successor employment contract, which contract, if agreed to, shall become effective September 6, 2025
- POR 2024 #160That the City Council immediately suspend new requests for memorial dedications and that the Government Operations and the Civic Unity Committee, working with the City Manager, hold hearings to discuss new ideas to honor and remember individuals (i.e. memorial garden, fountain, wall or path), criteria for eligibility, a more robust committee structure, and a means for recording and maintaining our current and future memorials
Resolutions (4)
- RES 2024 #301Resolution wishing Tim Toomey a swift recovery
- RES 2024 #302Congratulations to Zeyneb Magavi on being named a “Bostonian of the Year” by the Boston Globe for her work as a climate innovatorclimate
- RES 2024 #303Resolution HONORING JOHN TAGIURI
- RES 2024 #304Late Resolution Re Whitney's Barlaborschoolstenants-rent📖 read
Other Business (4)
- ARS-24-29Awaiting Report Status Update 12.16.24affordable-housingbudgethousing-general📖 read
- AR-24-68The 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-lanestransit-traffic
- AR-24-69The City Manager is requested to work with relevant City departments and encourage the state Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the MBTA to adhere to Cambridge local ordinances, including the Cambridge Asbestos Protection Ordinance, during Alewife Constructiontransit-traffic
Committee Reports (13)
- Public Safety Committee hearing of 2019-09-24 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
- Public Safety Committee hearing of 2019-10-30 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
- Public Safety Committee hearing of 2019-12-17 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
- Public Safety Committee hearing of 2020-01-03 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
- Housing Committee hearing of 2020-03-03 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
- Neighborhood & Long Term Planning Committee hearing of 2020-10-14 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
- Housing Committee hearing of 2020-10-28 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
- Neighborhood & Long Term Planning Committee hearing of 2021-03-04 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
- Public Safety Committee hearing of 2021-06-22 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
- Public Safety Committee hearing of 2021-07-28 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
- Human Services & Veterans Committee hearing of 2024-11-06 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
- Ordinance Committee hearing of 2024-12-03 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
- Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Passed To A Second Reading [Unanimous]