Asked the City Manager to report back to the Council as soon as possible with an outline for drafting possible legislation and other recommendations for interim actions to identify and address the public health impacts of any commercial wood-fired ovens currently operating in the city and/or to ban the use of wood-fired ovens by commercial establishments

How it started

Oct 17, 2016 · Proposed by Councillor E. Denise Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Oct 17, 2016 · Held by charter right the city's note: “CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR TOOMEY”

Oct 31, 2016 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Jan Devereux; carried on a voice vote.

to amend the substituted language offered by Mayor Simmons to strike out the words in the last paragraph “resolve the concerns of residents” in the substituted text and insert the words “to protect the health of residents whose air quality is being negatively impacted.”

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Oct 31, 2016, p. 13.

Oct 31, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

View the roll call

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

October 17, 2016

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the City Solicitor, in coordination with staff at the Public Health Department, Inspectional Services, the License Commission and the Fire Department, to recommend the most appropriate and expedient actions, to include proposed ordinance and/or regulatory language, to identify and address the public health threats and detriments to residents’ quality of life caused by commercial establishments operating wood-fired ovens and/or to ban the use by commercial establishments of wood-fired ovens, and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back to the Council as soon as possible with an outline for drafting possible legislation and other recommendations for interim actions to identify and address the public health impacts of any commercial wood-fired ovens currently operating in the city and/or to ban the use of wood-fired ovens by commercial establishments. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR TOOMEY

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Oct 17, 2016