Asked the City Manager to create a structured commercial tax rate system for FY20 that prioritizes lowering the tax rate for small businesses

How it started

May 21, 2018 · Proposed by Councillors McGovern, Toomey, and Simmons and Mayor Siddiqui: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

May 21, 2018 · Held by charter right one member's right to pause; the item returns at the next meeting

Jun 4, 2018 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

View the roll call

Present and voting at this meeting (9)

Alanna Mallon
Craig A. Kelley
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Marc McGovern
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui
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 two council orders

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City of Cambridge

IN CITY COUNCIL

May 21, 2018

IN CITY COUNCIL · May 21, 2018

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to create a structured commercial tax rate system for FY20 that prioritizes lowering the tax rate for small businesses. In City Council May 21, 2018. Adopted as amended by the affirmative vote of nine members. Attest:- Donna P. Lopez, City Clerk A true copy; ATTEST:- Donna P. Lopez, City Clerk

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: May 21, 2018