City Council support of H.3512 in the Massachusetts Legislature, allowing Massachusetts to obtain a fee on large real estate transactions that will be put towards affordable housing endeavors

How it started

Sep 11, 2017 · Proposed by Councillor Mazen, Vice Mayor Devereux, and Councillor Carlone: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Sep 11, 2017 · Held by charter right one member's right to pause; the item returns at the next meeting

Sep 18, 2017 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Jan Devereux; carried on a voice vote.

the aforementioned order by adding in the third paragraph before the word “fee” the words “l%.”

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Sep 18, 2017, p. 6.

Sep 18, 2017 · ✅ Order adopted

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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.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Sep 11, 2017