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POR 2018-144

Asked the City Manager to work with the relevant City Departments to launch a program during the summer months to activate the Front Lawn of City Hall in the afternoon with games (such as cornhole boards), food trucks, and other forms of entertainment to engage a diverse age range of residents in recreation

How it started
May 21, 2018 · Proposed by Councillor McGovern, Vice Mayor Devereux, and Councillors Toomey and Zondervan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
May 21, 2018 · Amendment carried Moved by Mayor Marc McGovern; carried on a voice vote.
the aforementioned order by adding after the word “to” the following “report back to the City Council on the feasibility of activating the front lawn of City Hall in the afternoon.”
The clerk's words, from the minutes of May 21, 2018, p. 27.
May 21, 2018 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager.
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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
📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2018 #179 (Jul 30, 2018).
The document a council order
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City of Cambridge
IN CITY COUNCIL
May 21, 2018

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with the relevant City Departments to launch a program during the summer months to activate the Front Lawn of City Hall in the afternoon with games (such as cornhole boards), food trucks, and other forms of entertainment to engage a diverse age range of residents in recreation.

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