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POR 2016-166

Mayor convene a Task Force charged with establishing recommendations for the City Council on what the ideal minimum wage in Cambridge should be, and how to best implement this increase without creating unintended consequences in Cambridge or elsewhere

How it started
Jun 13, 2016 · Proposed by Councillors Simmons, McGovern, Mazen, Toomey, and Cheung: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Jun 13, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted as amended

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.
The document a council order
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City of Cambridge
IN CITY COUNCIL
June 13, 2016

ORDERED: That the Mayor convene a Task Force charged with establishing recommendations for the City Council on what the ideal minimum wage in Cambridge should be, and how to best implement this increase without creating unintended consequences in Cambridge or elsewhere; and be it further ORDERED: That Business, Labor, and Community Interests should be equally represented on this Task Force, that the Task Force should work to solicit the opinions of other affected stakeholders, and that this Task Force should hold its first meeting within three months of the adoption of this resolution, and report back to the City Council within six months of that meeting.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 13, 2016

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2016-06-20). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.