ARS 2024-25
AR Status Update 11.18.24
The clerk's record shows no vote or disposition against this item. Some are received and filed without one, and a roundtable takes no votes at all. If the city's record shows otherwise, that is exactly what an audit should catch.
Date Passed Policy Order Summary
Status Expected Date Sponsors Notes 24-024 05/20/24 Report on work done with relevant City departments and the Cambridge Arts Council to consider whether Cambridge could facilitate a porchfest event. Nolan (Lead); Azeem; Simmons; Sobrinho-Wheeler 24-031 06/10/24 Provide an update to the Municipal Facilities Improvement Plan (MFIP) including revised cost estimates to help inform the FY26 and ongoing capital budget priorities in a timely manner.
Pickett (Lead); Nolan; Toner
24-032 06/17/24 Explore with the MBTA how to best ensure that the public art, Gift of the Wind, is preserved. Pickett (Lead); McGovern; Nolan;
Siddiqui; Simmons; Toner; Wilson
24-036 06/24/24 Develop for future inter-jurisdictional transportation projects a system to ensure coordinated and timely communication between multiple parties involved in such projects and report back to the Transportation and Public Utilities Committee in a time fashion. 11/18/24 Pickett (Lead); McGovern; Siddiqui; Sobrinho-Wheeler 24-037 06/24/24 Consider a number of city application processes and find ways to reduce paper and printing waste
Nolan (Lead); Siddiqui; Sobrinho-
Wheeler 24-053 09/16/24 Assist companies, institutions, and other organizations in adopting truck safety requirements for their fleets and finding trucking vendors who are able to comply by providing an informational resource and publicizing those that comply Sobrinho-Wheeler (Lead); McGovern;
Siddiqui; Wilson
24-054 09/16/24 Review Cambridge’s curb cut policies and report back on if they can be improved to help meet the City’s transportation and sustainability goals with some proposed updates and draft ordinance language designating City staff as the final approval authority for curb cuts. 01/13/25 Sobrinho-Wheeler (Lead); Azeem;
Siddiqui; Wilson
Awaiting Report Status Update 11/18/24
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Date Passed Policy Order Summary
Status Expected Date Sponsors Notes 24-058 09/23/24 Requested to confer with the Finance
Department, Law Department, and other relevant
departments to explore the feasibility of a successor program to Rise Up Cambridge. Siddiqui (Lead); McGovern; Simmons;
Sobrinho-Wheeler; Wilson
24-060 09/30/24 Report back to the City Council with details of an organized process for tracking grant activities, including but not limited to application, status tracking, and post-award activity.
Siddiqui (Lead); McGovern; Sobrinho-
Wheeler; Wilson
24-061 10/07/24 Produce the petition(s) necessary to accomplish the goal of lowering the speed limit as much as possible on all state highways that fall within Cambridge’s geographic boundaries, including and especially Memorial Drive. Nolan (Lead); Sobrinho-Wheeler (Lead); McGovern 24-062 10/21/24
Work with the Community Development
Department to provide an update on the status of the Resident Experiences of Inclusion and Bias in
Inclusionary Housing in Cambridge report’s
recommendations, including progress on implementation and planned next steps.
Siddiqui (Lead); Simmons; Sobrinho-
Wheeler; Wilson
24-063 11/04/24
Recognize and honor the Massachusett Tribe
specifically Sqa Sachem