City Manager work with the Cambridge Arts Council, the Cambridge Women’s Commission, the Cambridge Historical Commission, the Department of Public Works, the Schlesinger Library, and other appropriate departments to establish a diverse commission to conduct the artist selection process and commission opportunity on behalf of the City, with the goal of acknowledging a more representative story of the 19th Amendment and highlighting the contributions of Cambridge women

How it started

Nov 19, 2018 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Mallon, Councillor Simmons, Vice Mayor Devereux, and Mayor Siddiqui: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Nov 19, 2018 · Amendment carried Moved by Vice Mayor Jan Devereux; carried on a voice vote.

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The clerk's words, from the minutes of Nov 19, 2018, p. 32.

Nov 19, 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. 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

November 19, 2018

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with the Cambridge Arts Council, the Cambridge Women’s Commission, the Cambridge Historical Commission, the Department of Public Works, the Schlesinger Library, and other appropriate departments to establish a diverse commission to conduct the artist selection process and commission opportunity on behalf of the City, with the goal of acknowledging a more representative story of the 19th Amendment and highlighting the contributions of Cambridge women; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back to the City Council on this matter.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Nov 19, 2018