City Council support of the EMPOWER Act (H.720/S.389: An Act ensuring municipal participation of the widest eligible range)

How it started

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

What happened

Apr 22, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted

Recorded in the negative (2)

Craig A. Kelley
Timothy J. Toomey

Present for the voice vote (7)

Alanna Mallon
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Marc McGovern
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui

Adopted by voice vote, with dissent recorded in the minutes. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions, but a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes. Councillor Craig A. Kelley and Councillor Timothy J. Toomey each did (minutes of Apr 22, 2019, p. 33). Showing the other 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 · dissent: council minutes

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.

🏛 This item on the city's site

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