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POR 2018-291

City Manager work with the Economic Development Department, Business Associations, and Cambridge Local First to create a Small Business Saturday strategy that increases traffic to our local businesses during the 2019 holiday season

How it started
Nov 26, 2018 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Mallon, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillor Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Nov 26, 2018 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. 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 2019 #12 (Jan 14, 2019).
Order adopted as amendedNov 26, 2018
Referred for reportAR 2018-128Dec 3, 2018
Administration answeredCMA 2019-12Jan 14, 2019 · answered in 42 days

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The document a council order
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City of Cambridge
IN CITY COUNCIL
November 26, 2018

ORDERED: Strategies in other municipalities include free metered and garage parking on Small Business Saturday, a municipal Small Business Saturday awareness and marketing campaign, and organizing City events in districts where small businesses are located; now therefore be it ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with the Economic Development Department, the Business Associations, and Cambridge Local First to create a Small Business Saturday strategy that increases traffic to our local businesses during the 2019 holiday season; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager report back to the City Council no later than July 2019.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Nov 26, 2018