City Council — Regular Meeting, May 12, 2025

City Manager's Agenda (1)

• CMA 2025 #118A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to technical corrections that should be made to the Floodplain Zoning textzoning📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF

Communications (67)

67 resident communications received for this meeting — housing general (38) · transit traffic (28) · affordable housing (24) · budget (20) · zoning (19). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (4)

• POR 2025 #71That the City Manager is requested to meet with the leadership of the Harvard Square Business Association to discuss the proposal and to take the necessary steps to facilitate the release of $72,000 to fund the RFP development for the tunnel engineering studytransit-traffic📖 read
• POR 2025 #72That the City Manager is requested to work with the School Department, the Department of Public Works, and other relevant departments to ensure that all city owned parking lots, with a focus on school complexes, including the still under construction parking at Tobin/Darby Vassal school complex, could be made available for after-hours use by residentsbike-lanesclimateschoolstransit-trafficzoning📖 read
• POR 2025 #73Policy Order For Expansion of Municipal Vouchers and Renewal of the Rise Up Programhomelessnesshousing-generaltransit-traffic📖 read
• POR 2025 #74City Council Reappoint Joseph McCann to the Position of City Auditor

Resolutions (7)

• RES 2025 #118Congratulations to Janice Alger on her retirement from The Department of Human Services
• RES 2025 #119Congratulations to Patrol Officer Jacques Desrosiers on his retirement from The Cambridge Police Departmentpolice-safety
• RES 2025 #120Congratulations to 2025 Inspire Awards Winners
• RES 2025 #121Resolution On The Death Of Colleen Proffit Jones
• RES 2025 #122Condolences on the death of Delores M. Coleman (Andrew)
• RES 2025 #123Resolution Congratulating Maura Mendoza on Album Release
• RES 2025 #124Resolution Congratulating Diane LeBlanc On Her Retirement

Other Business (5)

• ARS-25-14Awaiting Report Status Update 05.12.25bike-lanesclimateschoolstransit-trafficzoning📖 read
• AR-25-27That the City Manager investigate bike pod storage options to be placed in suitable areas in the City to provide residents and visitors safe storage options
• AR-25-28That the City Manager is requested to prepare an update with details on the status of potential civilian flagger operations in the Cambridge police union contract and work with relevant city staff to explore a civilian traffic flagger program and update the current police union contract on the City's websitelaborpolice-safetytransit-traffic

• an update regarding legislative activity 📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• Inclusionary Housing Program - New Development related to Charter Right #1 regarding Inclusionary Housing 📄 PDF

Committee Reports (3)

• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2025-04-30 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Passed To A Second Reading As Amended [Unanimous]
• Government Operations Rules & Claims Committee hearing of 2025-05-05 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]