City Council — Regular Meeting, June 9, 2025

City Manager's Agenda (13)

• CMA 2025 #140A 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 Said S. Abuzahra, Trustee of Equity Realty Trust, et al. v. City of Cambridge (Mdsx. Super. Ct. C.A. No. 2017- cv-2459); and strategy with respect to litigation known as Lubavitch of Cambridge, Inc. v. Jim Monteverde as member of the Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeals et al. (Land Court Docket No. 24 Misc 00622), John W. Toulopoulos Trustee of the Toulopoulos Realty Trust, et al. v. Lubavitch of Cambridge Inc. et al. (Land Court, Docket No. 24 Misc 000528), and Lubavitch of Cambridge, Inc. v. Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeal and City of Cambridgezoning
• CMA 2025 #141Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to an order authorizing the City Manager to transfer necessary funds needed to maintain appropriation control as part of the fiscal end-of-year closeout process📖 read
• CMA 2025 #142Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $118,620.00 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 ($11,762.00), and to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($106,858.00)housing-general
• CMA 2025 #143A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 25-24 regarding a critical drought status reporthousing-general📖 read
• CMA 2025 #144A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the submission of the Zero Waste Master Planbike-lanes📖 read
• CMA 2025 #145A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appointments of Florrie Darwin, Scott Kyle, and Michael Rogove and the reappointments of Chandra Harrington, Joseph Ferrara, Elizabeth Lyster, Yuting Zhang, gavin Kleespies, Paula Paris, and Kyle Sheffield
• CMA 2025 #146A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appointment Sarah Holt, Emily Oldshue, and Ruth Webb and the reappointments of Marie-Pierre Dillenseger, Donna Marcantonio, and Peter Schur to the Half Crown-Marsh Neighborhood Conservation District Commission
• CMA 2025 #147A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appointment of Nondita Mehrotra, and the reappointments of Constantin von Wentzel, Heli Meltsner, McKelden Smith, Theresa Hamacher, and Freweyni Gebrehiwet to the Avon Hill Neighborhood Conservation District Commission
• CMA 2025 #149A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a request for approval to seek authorization from the Massachusetts Office of the Inspector General (the “IG”) for the City to use the Construction Manager at Risk (“CMaR”) procurement and construction method (the “CMaR Method”) in connection withschools📖 read
• CMA 2025 #150A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 25-25, regarding a request to establish a Lost and Found program at Cambridge City Hall
• CMA 2025 #151A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to an amendment to the Fresh Pond Golf Pro Shop Fund ordinance to enable the funds to be used to cover the purchase of office supplies for the shop and the purchase of supplies and services for the care, maintenance, and improvement of the golf course, shop, and parking lot. PLACED ON UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN COUNCIL JUNE 9, 2025budgettransit-traffic📖 read 📄 PDF
• CMA 2025 #152Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a request for authorization of a spending limit of $200,000 for Fiscal Year 2026, for the Fresh Pond Golf Course Pro Shop revolving fund (Revolving Fund), pursuant to Chapter 3.24 of the Municipal Ordinance titled “Departmental Revolving Funds”📖 read
• CMA 2025 #153A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a revised draft of the “Eastern Cambridge Community Enhancements” Zoning Petition. PLACED ON UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN COUNCIL JUNE 9, 2025housing-generaltransit-trafficzoning📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF

Communications (248)

248 resident communications received for this meeting — transit traffic (183) · bike lanes (181) · labor (73) · schools (26) · police safety (18). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (4)

• POR 2025 #84That the City Manager is requested to work with relevant City departments to determine whether the City Council can revoke an already approved curb cut application if said application was incomplete due to applicant failure
• POR 2025 #85That the City Manager is requested to work with the City Clerk, the Information Technology Department, the Law Department, and any other relevant departments to draft an ordinance establishing the City of Cambridge Electronic Records Archiving Policy
• POR 2025 #86Policy Order urging Governor Healey, the MBTA Board of Directors and General Manager Phillip Eng to amend the MBTA Alewife Station Complex redevelopment RFP to include as a priority eliminating untreated Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) sewage in our neighborhoods by incorporating green and gray infrastructure as central components of the project. The order further calls on the MBTA to collaborate with the MWRA, DCR, DPH, the City of Cambridge, and the community to address this public health threatbike-lanestransit-traffic📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• POR 2025 #87City Council support of H2634: An Act relative to sexual assault by an officer

Resolutions (4)

• RES 2025 #144Congratulations to Janet Forte on her retirement from the Cambridge Public Schoolsschools
• RES 2025 #145Condolences on the death of Joan Marie (Downing) Lachance
• RES 2025 #146Commending Firefighter Nicole Signoretti’s commitment to the wellbeing of her fellow First Responders and the broader Cambridge community and welcoming Raven to the Fire Department
• RES 2025 #147In appreciation of Sarah Gallop’s and MIT’s longstanding commitment to CASPAR and supporting the 2025 Strengthening Our Community celebration

Applications & Petitions (2)

• APP 2025 #23An application was received from Nicolaii Cauchy Huron Village and Businesses requesting permission for a temporary banner along Huron Ave pole #62, 65, 66, 70 and 73 announcing Huron Village on June 9, 2025📖 read
• APP 2025 #24An application was received from Michael Monestine representing Central Square Business Improvement District requesting permission for a 30 temporary banner along Massachusetts Avenue from Hancock Street to Sydney Street announcing PRIDE from June 5, 2025 through October 31, 2025📖 read

Other Business (5)

• ARS-25-17Awaiting Report Status Update 06.09.25bike-lanesclimateschoolstransit-trafficzoning📖 read
• AR-25-33The City Manager is requested to work with relevant City departments to provide a legal opinion outlining, in light of current zoning including the most recent Multifamily Zoning Amendments, the ability of Cambridge to regulate institutional and religious uses in C-1 residential districts and what state and federal law allows in terms of local restrictions, if any, for institutional and religious useszoning

• an update regarding legislative activity 📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• CMA 2025 #148 : Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of 40,625 received from the Metropolitan Mayors Coalition’s Community Safety Initiative through the Executive Office of Public

Safety and Security to the Grant Fund Police Department Salary and Wages account ($32,025) and the

Grant Fund Police Department Other Ordinary Maintenance account ($8,600). Funds will be dedicated to hot spot patrols, youth violence reduction strategies, and the Focused Deterrence program. The Other Ordinary Maintenance allocation will support a Teen Public Art program “Upcycling and Entrepreneurialism” through the Community Art Center [arts, bike-lanes, police-safety]

• ORD 2025 # 10 : An Ordinance has been received from City Clerk, relative to East Cambridge Community Enhancement Overlay District (“ECCE Overlay District”), which is governed by the regulations and procedures specified in this Section 20.1200. It is the intent of this Section that these regulations will apply to land within the ECCE Overlay District. PASSED TO SECOND READING IN COUNCIL JUNE 9, 2025

ELIGIBLE TO BE ORDAINED JUNE 30, 2025 [housing-general, transit-traffic, zoning] 📖 read

Committee Reports (2)

• Government Operations Rules & Claims Committee hearing of 2025-05-01 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2025-05-20 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]