City Manager request an investigation by the State Department of Public Utilities into the maintenance of the district energy system and ask appropriate officials from the State Department of Public Utilities to appear before the City Council to report on the state of repair of the district energy system in Cambridge and to discuss why there are no state regulations governing steam energy systems in Massachusetts when it is widely known that these operations create potential serious public health hazards and risks

How it started

Dec 4, 2017 · Proposed by Councillors Maher, Toomey, and Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Dec 4, 2017 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

Craig A. Kelley
David Maher
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Leland Cheung
Marc McGovern
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 (AR 2017 #123 open, 3,182 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

Order adoptedDec 4, 2017

Referred for reportAR 2017-123Dec 11, 2017

Awaiting answer⏳ pending3,182 days and counting

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: Dec 4, 2017