City Manager work with the Cambridge Fire Department and DCAMM to conduct a safety check of the Sullivan Courthouse Building

How it started

Jun 3, 2019 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Mallon and Councillor Toomey: 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

Jun 3, 2019 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Quinton Zondervan; carried on a voice vote.

the aforementioned order by adding a new paragraph which reads as follows: WHEREAS: Cambridge Fire Department (CFD) was informed by the state’s Division of Capital Assets Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) that Veolia had failed to shut off the steam to the building, as had been previously requested by DCAMM, and this morning, CFD confirmed with Veolia they have shut off the isolation supply valve outside the courthouse (in the street) that supplies the building, and that it will not be turned back on; and Councillor Carlone noted that there are definitive procedures when you close a building and it seems few were undertaken by the state for this building

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jun 3, 2019, p. 24.

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 #199 (Jul 30, 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 work with the Cambridge Fire Department and DCAMM to conduct a safety check, with special concern for the presence of flammable materials, and report on the safety status of both the interior and exterior of the Sullivan Courthouse; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager work with the Public Information Office to ensure that this information is distributed to direct abutters of the Courthouse site; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back to the City Council as soon as possible.

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