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POR 2016-18

Asked the City Manager to coordinate with the Clerk’s Office and the appropriate departments to implement within three months an electronic public comment display in the Sullivan Chamber, listing the speaker’s name and affiliation as well as a timer

How it started
Jan 25, 2016 · Proposed by Councillors Mazen, Cheung, and Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Jan 25, 2016 · Tabled set aside by vote
Sep 26, 2016 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Nadeem Mazen; carried on a voice vote.
aforementioned order by striking out the word “coordinate” and to further requested that this matter be reported back to the City Council
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Sep 26, 2016, p. 24.
Sep 26, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)
View the roll call

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

  • 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
📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2017 #66 (Mar 27, 2017).
The document Agenda item attachment · 1 page

O-6 The Massachusetts State House has adopted an electronic public comment display system which projects a list of speakers, the speaker’s affiliation, and a timer; and During Cambridge City Council meetings and committee hearings there is presently no system which clearly displays a speaker's name and affiliation for the public present at the meeting or watching at home; and The City Council meetings and committee hearings have no system for allowing the public comment speaker to see how much of the allotted three minutes remains during their comment; and An electronic public comment display system installed in the Sullivan Chamber of City Hall would improve the clarity and logistics surrounding public commentary during City Council meetings and committee hearings; now therefore be it That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to coordinate with the Clerk’s Office and the appropriate departments to implement within three months an electronic public comment display in the Sullivan Chamber, listing the speaker’s name and affiliation as well as a timer.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Mar 14, 2016

Public Comment (3)

3 written comments received (2016-09-12 – 2016-09-19). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.