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POR 2017 #28 · Agenda item attachment · Jan 30 2017
That the City Manager is requested to confer with the Community Development Department, the Department of Public Works (DPW) and any other relevant City department and report back to the City Council on ways the City can help small businesses offset other costs, included but not limited to, the possibility of DPW picking up trash from these small businesses during their regular routes
City of Cambridge
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ORIGINAL ORDER
IN CITY COUNCIL
January 30, 2017
VICE MAYOR MCGOVERN
COUNCILLOR CHEUNG
WHEREAS:
The City Council and City of Cambridge value and support our small businesses; and
WHEREAS:
Small businesses are struggling due to losing customers to big box stores and Internet
shopping, as well as rising rents; and
WHEREAS:
Cambridge has implemented many socially conscious initiatives including banning
plastic bags and polystyrene; and
WHEREAS:
These initiatives, although positive in the battle against climate change, have added
additional expenses to our small businesses; and
WHEREAS:
The City Council has previously discussed providing trash services to small business
but the City still currently does not; now therefore be it
ORDERED:
That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the Community
Development Department, the Department of Public Works (DPW) and any other
relevant City department and report back to the City Council on ways the City can help
small businesses offset other costs, included but not limited to, the possibility of DPW
picking up trash from these small businesses during their regular routes.