Asked the City Manager to confer with the Department of Human Services to allocate additional supplemental funds in the FY19 Budget and a line item allocated in the FY20 Budget for legal aid contracts so that more legal assistance is available to residents facing displacement and other housing-related emergencies

How it started

Jun 18, 2018 · Proposed by Mayor Siddiqui and Councillors Simmons, Carlone, and McGovern: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 18, 2018 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Sumbul Siddiqui; carried on a voice vote.

the aforementioned order in paragraph five to read as follows: ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the Department of Human Services to allocate additional supplemental funds in the FY 19 budget and in the FY 20 budget

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jun 18, 2018, p. 27.

Jun 18, 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

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number (AR 2018 #67 open, 2,978 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

The document a council order

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City of Cambridge

IN CITY COUNCIL

June 18, 2018

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the Department of Human Services to allocate additional funds in the FY20 Budget for legal aid contracts so that more legal assistance is available to residents facing displacement and other housing-related emergencies; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager and the Department of Human Services report back on progress regarding this increase by September 2018.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 18, 2018