Asked the City Manager to report back on this pilot program and whether it could be implemented as a permanent program, with menstrual products available in all restrooms, regardless of the gender identity assigned to that restroom

How it started

Jun 3, 2019 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Devereux, Councillors Simmons and McGovern, and Mayor Siddiqui: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 3, 2019 · Amendment carried Moved by Vice Mayor Jan Devereux; carried on a voice vote.

the aforementioned Policy Order by adding the words “municipal building” in the last paragraph after the word “all.”

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jun 3, 2019, p. 15.

Jun 3, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)

View the roll call

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

Alanna Mallon
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 #185 (Jun 24, 2019).

The document a council order

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City of Cambridge

IN CITY COUNCIL

June 3, 2019

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back on this pilot program and whether it could be implemented as a permanent program, with menstrual products available in all restrooms, regardless of the gender identity assigned to that restroom.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 3, 2019