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POR 2018-110

Asked the City Manager to work with the appropriate City staff to ensure that an additional commitment of $20 million from the City’s budget is devoted over the next five years toward the City’s efforts to preserve and create affordable housing units

How it started
Apr 23, 2018 · Proposed by Councillor Simmons and Mayor Siddiqui: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Apr 23, 2018 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

Recorded in the negative (1)

  • Craig A. Kelley

Present for the voice vote (8)

  • Alanna Mallon
  • Dennis Carlone
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Jan Devereux
  • Marc McGovern
  • Quinton Zondervan
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Timothy J. Toomey
Adopted by voice vote, with dissent recorded in the minutes. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions, but a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes. Councillor Craig A. Kelley did (minutes of Apr 23, 2018, p. 18). Showing the other 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 · dissent: council minutes
What’s next
No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number (AR 2018 #44 open, 3,034 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
Order adopted as amendedApr 23, 2018
Referred for reportAR 2018-44Apr 30, 2018
Awaiting answer⏳ pending3,034 days and counting

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

The document a council order
City of Cambridge
IN CITY COUNCIL
April 23, 2018

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with the appropriate City staff to ensure that an additional commitment of $20 million from the City’s budget is devoted over the next five years toward the City’s efforts to preserve and create affordable housing units, and to report back to the City Council on this in a timely manner.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Apr 23, 2018