The City Manager instruct the appropriate City personnel to fly the Transgender Pride Flag over City Hall as a gesture of strong encouragement to the Massachusetts State Legislature to pass HB.1577/SB.735 into law this week

How it started

May 9, 2016 · Proposed by Councillors Simmons and Cheung: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

May 9, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

Craig A. Kelley
David Maher
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Leland Cheung
Nadeem Mazen
Timothy J. Toomey

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: May 9, 2016