City Council — Regular Meeting, April 14, 2025

City Manager's Agenda (11)

• CMA 2025 #80A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a Federal update
• CMA 2025 #81A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the City of Cambridge FY 2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report📖 read 📄 PDF
• CMA 2025 #82A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 24-67 regarding Cambridge Bicycle Plan Update and Consideration of Network Connectionsbike-lanestransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2025 #83A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 25-6 regarding safety improvements at the intersection of Cambridge Street, Cardinal Medeiros Avenue, and Warren Streetbike-lanestransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2025 #84A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 25-23 regarding a Citywide Shuttle Bus Pilot programlabortransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2025 #85Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $15,000.00 to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account. Funds are to be used to support the Cambridge Food Pantry Network
• CMA 2025 #86Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $57,626.50 to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account. These funds will be used to reimburse the City for salary and program costs associated with enrolling income-eligible youth in the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program
• CMA 2025 #87Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $17,621.00 to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account. Funds will be used for program supplies, the Summer Food Program Kick Off Event held in June, and outreach and community engagement to encourage program participation throughout the summer
• CMA 2025 #88Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $77,100.00 to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Salary and Wages account ($70,560.00) and to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($6,540.00). Funds will be used for the Cambridge Youth Programs Boys II Men Internship (created in 2012) and the Blooming into Womanhood Internship Program
• CMA 2025 #89Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $504,198.00 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 Other Ordinary Maintenance accounthousing-general
• CMA 2025 #90Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $57,900, to the Public Investment Fund Public Works Extraordinary Expenditures account. This grant continues the work started last year under a similar grant to develop resources for municipalities focused on inspection and maintenance of stormwater treatment systems

Communications (278)

278 resident communications received for this meeting — transit traffic (132) · bike lanes (103) · schools (61) · homelessness (21) · housing general (14). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (5)

• POR 2025 #53City Council opposition to Federal efforts to defund or censor museumsartsschools📖 read
• POR 2025 #54That the City Council go on record declaring Earth Day, April 22 in the year 2025 “Sustainable Cambridge Day” and that the City Manager is requested to communicate to all City departments the City’s commitment to our climate goals and the need to support the efforts of the Sustainable Cambridge initiativeclimate
• POR 2025 #56That the Council accept the new additional changes as detailed that the Law Department has made that the Special Committee did not vote on
• POR 2025 #57That the City Council petition the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to enact the attached home rule petition entitled, AN ACT ESTABLISHING A CHARTER FOR THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE; provided, that the Legislature may make such incidental changes necessary to effectuate passage of this petition📖 read
• POR 2025 #58That the City Council request that State Rep. Marjorie Decker sponsor the home rule petition entitled AN ACT ESTABLISHING A CHARTER FOR THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE📖 read

Resolutions (8)

• RES 2025 #86Condolences on the death of Barbara (Caulfield) Jump
• RES 2025 #87Congratulations on the Grand Opening of McCarthy's and Toad, a new Irish pub in Porter Square
• RES 2025 #88Condolences to the family of Linda Marie Galloway
• RES 2025 #89Congratulations to The Cambridge Program's Basketball Teams - The Warriors capturing their 9th consecutive State Championship win, The Falcons securing silver, and the newest team The Ryders, learning and developing their skills each game
• RES 2025 #90Congratulations to David Tynes, Program Director at The Cambridge Program for Individuals with Special Needs, on receiving the Heroes Among Us Award
• RES 2025 #91Resolution In Recognition Of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Weekpolice-safety
• RES 2025 #92Thank you to Harvard University
• RES 2025 #93On the Commemoration of Patriots’ Day

Other Business (5)

• ARS-25-11Awaiting Report Status Update 04.14.25bike-lanesbroadbandclimatezoning📖 read

• an update regarding legislative activity 📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• an update regarding Revised Charter Draft including Home Rule Draft 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• - Updated City Charter Update Regarding Revised Charter Draft 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• POR 2025 #55 : That the City Council approve the motions that passed favorably in the Special

Committee of the Whole/Charter Review on March 28, 2025 [charter]

Committee Reports (3)

• Neighborhood & Long Term Planning Committee hearing of 2025-03-05 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Transportation & Public Utilities Committee hearing of 2025-03-17 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of 2025-03-28 — Accepted [Unanimous]