Awaiting Report Status Update 5.4.26

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Development Department and the Transportation Department to meet

with Harvard's Office of Community Relations and the Longwood Collective (MASCO) to harmonize institutional bus protocols with public- facing commitments. Al-Zubi (Lead); Siddiqui (Lead); Nolan; Sobrinho-Wheeler 26-27 03/23/26 That the City Manager is requested to direct relevant City departments and staff to examine and report back on whether the city can require single-stall public bathrooms to be gender-neutral.

McGovern (Lead); Azeem; Siddiqui; Simmons 26-28 03/30/26 Review the current legal landscape and provide recommendations for how to regulate construction of data centers in Cambridge and protect residents and local resources and utilities from their impact.

Pending Nolan (Lead); Siddiqui (Lead); McGovern; Zusy 26-29 03/30/26 Raise the fee to receive a residential parking permit program for all residents to $75, to more accurately reflect the cost of administering the program, and consider how to include a self-identified check off option so as not to increase administrative costs for a subsidized fee of $25 for residents who live in affordable housing, are enrolled in a program such as SNAP or are low income.

Nolan (Lead); Zusy (Lead); McGovern; Sobrinho-Wheeler 26-30 04/13/26 Provide a report on how the decision to install artificial turf was made, the rationale for artificial turf, and what process was taken to ensure community concerns and public health considerations were fully addressed, and to ensure that construction will not move forward until a report is delivered.

Nolan (Lead); Siddiqui (Lead); McGovern

26-31 04/27/26

Update the City’s “Succession Planning and Employee Ownership

Workbook” and any comparable written or online guidance so that worker buyouts and worker cooperatives are clearly presented as standard succession options for retiring business owners. Al-Zubi (Lead); Sobrinho-Wheeler (Lead);

Nolan; Siddiqui

26-32 04/27/26 Direct the Cambridge Department of Transportation (CDOT) and any other relevant departments to halt any further design, engineering, procurement, or construction activities related to implementing a reconfiguration of Garden Street to restore two-way motor-vehicle traffic or relocate the existing Bluebikes station and provide the City Council with a written update within six months of passage of this Order describing an alternative set of safety improvements that do not restore two-way motor vehicle traffic on Garden Street.

Al-Zubi (Lead); Sobrinho-Wheeler (Lead)

26-33 Review the state bills referenced as well as the previously filed Home Rule Petition and prepare a new Home Rule Petition that would allow Cambridge to install and operate cameras to enforce red light, speeding, or other moving violations as outlined in H.3754 and S.2344 and the prior home rule Nolan (Lead); Sobrinho-Wheeler (Lead);

McGovern; Siddiqui