City Council — Regular Meeting, November 24, 2025

City Manager's Agenda (3)

• CMA 2025 #279A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 25-60, which requested a comprehensive report on Gold Star Mothers Memorial Park📖 read
• CMA 2025 #280Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $1,000,000, from Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund Public Works Department Extraordinary Expenditures account. These funds will support the removal of stockpiled contaminated soil and initiate the design phase for the remediation and reconstruction of Gold Star Mothers Park
• CMA 2025 #281A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 25-56, regarding an update on rodent control citywide📖 read

Communications (7)

7 resident communications received for this meeting — climate (5) · broadband (1). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (2)

• POR 2025 #160Policy Order regarding canceling December 1, 2025 City Council Meeting
• POR 2025 #161Update on Organizational Changes to the Equity & Inclusion Departmentbudgetschools📖 read

Resolutions (7)

• RES 2025 #252Congratulations to Lieutenant Joseph Murphy on his retirement from the Cambridge Police Departmentpolice-safetytenants-rent
• RES 2025 #253Congratulations to Gladys Martinez on her retirement from the Cambridge Police Departmentpolice-safety
• RES 2025 #254Congratulations to John Bouzan on his retirement from the Cambridge Health Alliance
• RES 2025 #255Congratulations to Cambridge’s Michelin-recognized restaurants, Jahunger, Pagu, Sumiao Hunan Kitchen, Giula, Moëca, Oleana, Pammy’s and Urban Hearth, for their outstanding contributions to the cultural and culinary landscape of our city; and be it further
• RES 2025 #256Condolences To The Family of Rev. Dr. Robert Avon Bennett, Jr
• RES 2025 #257Condolences to the Family of Mary Baker
• RES 2025 #258Condolences To The Family of Calvin Gilkes

Applications & Petitions (2)

• APP 2025 #41An application was received from MIT Museum requesting permission for a seventy temporary banners along Memorial Drive to Sydney Street, Ames Street and the Longfellow Bridge announcing AI: Mind the Gap, Gene Cultures, Essential MIT and Cosmograph on November 2025 through Summer 2026📖 read
• APP 2025 #42An application was received from Matt Hayes, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 68 Kinnaird Street; said petition has received approval from Inspectional Services, Traffic, Parking and Transportation, Historical Commission and Public Works. No response has been received from the neighborhood associationtransit-traffic📖 read

Other Business (3)

• ARS-25-30Awaiting Report Status Update 11.24.25affordable-housinghousing-generalpolice-safetyschoolstransit-traffic📖 read
• AR-25-66The City Manager is requested to confer with the Executive Director of the Council on Aging and other relevant City departments to explore the feasibility of creating a dedicated position or function focused on triaging and directing senior residents to appropriate services and supports

• an update regarding legislative activity 📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF

Committee Reports (1)

• Health & Environment Committee hearing of 2025-10-29 — Report Accepted [Unanimous]