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POR 2016-74

Neighborhood and Long Term Planning, Public Facilities, Arts and Celebrations Committee and the Civic Unity Committee hold a joint hearing to determine the feasibility of facilitating the appointment of an “Non-Citizen Representative” to the City Council

How it started
Mar 21, 2016 · Proposed by Councillors Mazen and Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Mar 21, 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 two council orders
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City of Cambridge
IN CITY COUNCIL
March 21, 2016

ORDERED: That the Neighborhood and Long Term Planning, Public Facilities, Art, and Celebrations Committee and the Civic Unity Committee hold a joint hearing to determine the feasibility of facilitating the appointment of a “Non-Citizen Representative” to the City Council, who would: 1) be elected by Cambridge residents who are ineligible to vote in municipal elections solely on account of their citizenship; 2) would not have the power to vote in Council meetings; 3) would be able to speak on agenda items at Council meetings; 4) would be able to submit policy orders to City Council members for their consideration; and 5) would be allotted a publicly- accessible meeting space for non-citizen Cambridge residents to air grievances and discuss city issues at least once per month.

IN CITY COUNCIL · March 21, 2016

ORDERED: That the Neighborhood and Long Term Planning, Public Facilities, Art, and Celebrations Committee and the Civic Unity Committee hold a joint hearing to determine the feasibility of facilitating the appointment of a “Non-Citizen Representative” to the City Council, who would: 1) be elected by Cambridge residents who are ineligible to vote in municipal elections solely on account of their citizenship; 2) would not have the power to vote in Council meetings; 3) would be able to speak on agenda items at Council meetings; 4) would be able to submit policy orders to City Council members for their consideration; and 5) would be allotted a publicly- accessible meeting space for non-citizen Cambridge residents to air grievances and discuss city issues at least once per month.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Mar 21, 2016