Asked the City Manager to provide an update from Eversource and any other relevant City departments regarding the finance, health and safety, building design and the long-term electricity needs that was requested by the City Council before the construction of a substation on Fulkerson Street in East Cambridge

How it started

Apr 22, 2019 · Proposed by Councillor Toomey, Vice Mayor Mallon, Councillor McGovern, and Mayor Siddiqui: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Apr 22, 2019 · Amendment carried Mover not named in the minutes; carried on a voice vote.

the aforementioned order by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph which reads as follows: ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to instruct the City Solicitor to provide information on what the legal authority of the City is on locating a utility company in a residential area

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Apr 22, 2019, p. 30.

Apr 22, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

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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

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

April 22, 2019

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is instructed to request an update from Eversource and any other relevant City departments on this matter; and be it further ORDERED: That this matter be referred to the Public Safety Committee, Health and Environment Committee, and the Transportation/Public Utilities Committee for the purpose of scheduling a joint hearing to discuss the update.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Apr 22, 2019