Asked the City Manager to confer with the Finance and Law Departments to draft a Home Rule petition that would allow Cambridge residents to easily round up their sewer/water bill to help support local non-profit organizations

How it started

Jan 30, 2017 · Proposed by Councillor Leland Cheung: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jan 30, 2017 · ✅ 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

📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2017 #86 (Apr 3, 2017).

Order adoptedJan 30, 2017

Referred for reportAR 2017-10Feb 6, 2017

Administration answeredCMA 2017-86Apr 3, 2017 · answered in 56 days

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jan 30, 2017