Asked the City Manager to direct the Executive Director of the Election Commission and the City Solicitor to report back to the City Council on potential ballot changes at a public hearing of the Government Operations, Rules and Claims Committee on May 28, 2019

How it started

May 13, 2019 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Jan Devereux: a formal request from the Council to the administration. Introduced late, under Rule 36A: added after the agenda was published, so it reached the floor only on a suspension of the rules.

What happened

May 13, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

Recorded in the negative (2)

Timothy J. Toomey
Craig A. Kelley

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 Timothy J. Toomey and Councillor Craig A. Kelley each did (minutes of May 13, 2019, p. 22). 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 (AR 2019 #61 open, 2,656 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

Order adoptedMay 13, 2019

Referred for reportAR 2019-61May 20, 2019

Awaiting answer⏳ pending2,656 days and counting

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

🏛 This item on the city's site

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