City Manger confer with the Mayor's Office, Commission on Persons with Disabilities, and Police Department to increase accessibility to the deaf community by hiring American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters and using apps such as Language Line Solutions to communicate with the deaf community in their first language

How it started

Mar 25, 2019 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Mallon and Councillors Kelley and Toomey: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Mar 25, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted

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 #242 (Sep 16, 2019).

Order adoptedMar 25, 2019

Referred for reportAR 2019-40Apr 1, 2019

Administration answeredCMA 2019-242Sep 16, 2019 · answered in 168 days

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Mar 25, 2019