The City Manager is requested to work with the Cambridge Historical Commission and any other relevant Departments to properly recognize, in the written history of Cambridge, as well as the marking of historical sites, the Indigenous people who resided on this land prior to the founding of Cambridge and to report back to the City Council and School Committee regarding implementation of this order

How it started

Jun 6, 2016 · Proposed by Councillor Marc C. McGovern: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 6, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

Present and voting at this meeting (9)

Craig A. Kelley
David Maher
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Leland Cheung
Marc McGovern
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: Jun 6, 2016