Asked the City Manager to work with relevant City Departments and industry leaders to generate a report on the potential growth of next-generation wireless technology in the City, to include: the expected footprint of citywide coverage from just one company and what market competition might produce; the integration of public and private infrastructure to support the network; what local standards the City might hope to maintain relative to aesthetics and safety; and how this new technology fits into our Broadband access plans

How it started

Feb 27, 2017 · Proposed by Councillor Kelley, Vice Mayor Devereux, and Councillor Cheung: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Feb 27, 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

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number (AR 2017 #22 open, 3,154 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

Order adoptedFeb 27, 2017

Referred for reportAR 2017-22Jan 8, 2018

Awaiting answer⏳ pending3,154 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: Feb 27, 2017