City Council encourage the Chair of the Civic Unity and the Neighborhood and Long Term Planning, Public Facilities, Arts & Celebrations Committees hold a joint meeting in the near future to explore the ways in which the City of Cambridge can celebrate all ethnic traditions in the City

How it started

Jun 20, 2016 · Proposed by Councillors Simmons, Toomey, and Mazen: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 20, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted as amended (one not recorded)

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

Craig A. Kelley
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 20, 2016

ORDERED: That the City Council be and hereby is requested to encourage the Chair of the Civic Unity Committee to hold a meeting in the near future to explore the ways in which the City of Cambridge can celebrate all ethnic traditions in the City.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 20, 2016