City Council go on record requesting Governor Baker to properly staff Department of Public Utilities inspectors to ensure the safety of Cambridge residents

How it started

Nov 19, 2018 · Proposed by Councillors Zondervan and McGovern and Vice Mayor Devereux and Mallon: a statement of the Council’s position, not a request for action.

What happened

Nov 19, 2018 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Quinton Zondervan; carried on a voice vote.

the aforementioned order to add in the last paragraph after the words “Public Utilities” the words “, state and congressional delegations.”

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Nov 19, 2018, p. 33.

Nov 19, 2018 · ✅ Adopted after amendments: the Council approved a revised version (Order adopted as amended)

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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

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RESOLVED: That the City Clerk be and hereby is requested to forward suitably engrossed copies of this resolution to Governor Baker as well as Angela M. O’Connor, Chairman of the Department of Public Utilities, on behalf of the entire City Council.

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