Asked the City Manager to convene a large and inclusive Comprehensive Arts Working Group, comprised of people from across the broad spectrum of ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds in our community, in order to begin drafting a Comprehensive Arts Planning Framework that shall help better incorporate the Arts into City planning and update the City Council on progress made toward appointing the members of this working group by the final City Council meeting of this term

How it started

Oct 30, 2017 · Proposed by Councillor E. Denise Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Oct 30, 2017 · Amendment carried Mover not named in the minutes; carried on a voice vote.

the aforementioned order to add in the fifth paragraph before the word “Comprehensive” the words “large and inclusive.”

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Oct 30, 2017, p. 17.

Oct 30, 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

October 30, 2017

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to convene a Comprehensive Arts Working Group, comprised of people from across the broad spectrum of ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds in our community, in order to begin drafting a Comprehensive Arts Planning Framework that shall help better incorporate the Arts into City planning going forward; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to update the City Council on progress made toward appointing the members of this working group by the final City Council meeting of this term.

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