Asked the City Manager to confer with the Mayor or the Superintendent of Schools to confer with the School Department, Human Resources, and any other relevant City departments to determine what it would look like financially and logistically for the new Tobin School to house half of Cambridge’s 3 and 4 year olds with the goal of providing universal pre-k split between the Tobin School and another school to be redesigned in the near future

How it started

May 15, 2017 · Proposed by Councillor Cheung and Vice Mayor Devereux: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

May 15, 2017 · Amendment carried Moved by Mayor E. Denise Simmons; carried on a voice vote.

the last paragraph to add after the words “confer with the” the following “Mayor or the Superintendent of Schools to confer”

The clerk's words, from the minutes of May 15, 2017, p. 12.

May 15, 2017 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

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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

May 15, 2017

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the School Department, Human Resources, and any other relevant City departments to determine what it would look like financially and logistically for the new Tobin School to house half of Cambridge’s 3 and 4 year olds with the goal of providing universal pre-k split between the Tobin School and another school to be redesigned in the near future.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: May 15, 2017