Asked the City Manager to identify additional opportunities to plant trees in public spaces throughout the city, particularly in underserved areas of the city, and present a timeline in which this will happen including any necessary fiscal appropriations, as a part of the broader effort to rebuild our declining tree canopy

How it started

Jun 18, 2018 · Proposed by Councillor Zondervan, Vice Mayor Devereux, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillor Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 18, 2018 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

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 #261 (Oct 29, 2018).

Order adoptedJun 18, 2018

Referred for reportAR 2018-69Jun 25, 2018

Administration answeredCMA 2018-261Oct 29, 2018 · answered in 126 days

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

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