City Council support of S. 2306, “An Act to promote and enhance civic engagement.”

How it started

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

What happened

Mar 19, 2018 · Amendment carried Mover not named in the minutes; carried 8–0.The minutes of Mar 19, 2018 record this vote but not the wording of the amendment.

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Voted yes (8)

Jan Devereux
Craig A. Kelley
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey
Quinton Zondervan

Absent (1)

Dennis Carlone

Mar 19, 2018 · ✅ Order adopted as amended (one absent)

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Present and voting at this meeting (8)

Jan Devereux
Craig A. Kelley
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey
Quinton Zondervan

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

March 19, 2018

ORDERED: That the City Council go on record supporting S. 2306, “An Act to promote and enhance civic engagement”; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Clerk be and hereby is requested to forward a suitably engrossed copy of this order to the Cambridge State Delegation and to the Cambridge School Committee on behalf of the entire City Council.

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