That the City Manager is requested to report back on this pilot program and whether it could be implemented as a permanent program, with menstrual products available in all restrooms, regardless of the gender identity assigned to that restroom

City of Cambridge O-2 ORIGINAL ORDER IN CITY COUNCIL June 3, 2019 VICE MAYOR DEVEREUX COUNCILLOR SIMMONS MAYOR MCGOVERN WHEREAS: At the March 14, 2016 meeting of the City Council, Policy Order #4 was unanimously adopted to ask the City Manager to identify ways to improve access to menstrual products in public restrooms; and WHEREAS: A pilot program was initiated later that year to install dispensers supplying free menstrual products at bathrooms in each of the five youth centers, the Multi-Service Center and in the restrooms at City Hall, on a trial basis until June 30th, 2017; and WHEREAS: Brookline recently approved offering free menstrual products in all public restrooms regardless of the gender identity assigned to that restroom; and WHEREAS: The City Council has not received an update on the status of Cambridge’s pilot program, whether it has continued and become a permanent program, and what its successes and challenges were; now therefore be it ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back on this pilot program and whether it could be implemented as a permanent program, with menstrual products available in all restrooms, regardless of the gender identity assigned to that restroom.