Asked the City Manager to consult with the City Arborist and Urban Forestry Division of the Department of Public Works to reach out to the non-profit institution The American Chestnut Foundation and its Massachusetts/Rhode Island chapter and make a written introduction of the City of Cambridge as open and amenable to assisting with their mission of restoring the American chestnut tree

How it started

Apr 4, 2016 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Devereux and Councillors Mazen and Kelley: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Apr 4, 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

⌛ 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.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Apr 4, 2016