Asked the City Manager to work with the appropriate City staff to develop and conduct a robust outreach effort to survey the City’s small business owners to determine how many of these businesses expect to remain in their current locations over the next half decade and to determine how the City can better support these businesses and work with them to ensure they remain a vibrant part of our community

How it started

Jun 27, 2016 · Proposed by Councillor E. Denise Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 27, 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

📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2016 #332 (Dec 5, 2016).

Order adoptedJun 27, 2016

Referred for reportAR 2016-58Aug 1, 2016

Administration answeredCMA 2016-332Dec 5, 2016 · answered in 126 days

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 27, 2016