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POR 2018-210

Asked the City Manager to report to the City Council with an explanation of how the City views internet-based platforms as opportunities for outreach and communication and what sort of guidelines have been, or are being, developed to help everyone understand how the City’s various departments do or do not utilize these communication resources and how any communications on these platforms are managed so that the messaging and information is kept up-to-date

How it started
Sep 17, 2018 · Proposed by Councillor Craig A. Kelley: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Sep 17, 2018 · Held by charter right the city's note: “CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR TOOMEY”
Sep 24, 2018 · Amendment failed Mover not named in the minutes; failed 4–4.
to strike the last two WHEREAS paragraphs
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Sep 24, 2018, p. 13.
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Voted yes (4)

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Jan Devereux
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern

Voted no (4)

  • Craig A. Kelley
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Quinton Zondervan

Absent (1)

  • Timothy J. Toomey
Sep 24, 2018 · Amendment failed Mover not named in the minutes; failed 4–4.The minutes of Sep 24, 2018 record this vote but not the wording of the amendment.
View the roll call on the amendment

Voted yes (4)

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Jan Devereux
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern

Voted no (4)

  • Craig A. Kelley
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Quinton Zondervan

Absent (1)

  • Timothy J. Toomey
Sep 24, 2018 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one absent)
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Present and voting at this meeting (4)

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Jan Devereux
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
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 #96 open, 2,880 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
🏛 This item on the city's site
🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Sep 17, 2018