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POR 2018-321

Asked the City Manager to confer with the Assessor's Office on the topic of requiring that a business entity’s beneficial ownership be disclosed in all Cambridge real estate transactions

How it started
Dec 17, 2018 · Proposed by Mayor Siddiqui and Councillors McGovern, Carlone, and Zondervan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Dec 17, 2018 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Sumbul Siddiqui; carried 7–1.
in the first paragraph by adding “and residential” before the word “commercial”
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Dec 17, 2018, p. 34.
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Voted yes (7)

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Craig A. Kelley
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Timothy J. Toomey
  • Marc McGovern

Voted no (1)

  • Quinton Zondervan

Absent (1)

  • Jan Devereux
Dec 17, 2018 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one absent)
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Present and voting at this meeting (7)

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Craig A. Kelley
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Timothy J. Toomey
  • 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
📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2019 #130 (May 6, 2019).
The document a council order
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City of Cambridge
IN CITY COUNCIL
December 17, 2018

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the Assessor's Office on the topic of requiring that a business entity’s beneficial ownership be disclosed in all Cambridge real estate transactions; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back to the City Council on this matter by February of 2019.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Dec 17, 2018