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POR 2019-167

Asked the City Manager to contact AT&T, the owner of the parking lot located at the corner of Bent Street and Sixth Street across from the Robert W. Healy Public Safety Facility, about making improvements to their landscaping and taking better care of their property that abuts the public way

How it started
May 13, 2019 · Proposed by Councillors McGovern and Toomey and Vice Mayor Devereux: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
May 13, 2019 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Quinton Zondervan; carried on a voice vote.
the aforementioned order by adding at the end thereof the words “while continuing to allow milkweeds to grow.”
The clerk's words, from the minutes of May 13, 2019, p. 14.
May 13, 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.
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City of Cambridge
IN CITY COUNCIL
May 13, 2019

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to contact AT&T, the owner of the parking lot located at the corner of Bent Street and Sixth Street across from the Robert W. Healy Public Safety Facility, about making improvements to their landscaping and taking better care of their property that abuts the public way, to include replanting trees that look to be in serious decline and keeping the planting beds free of overgrowth and trash.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: May 13, 2019