Asked the City Manager to establish a working committee to review the monuments, memorials, and markers throughout Cambridge to determine whether any of these commemorate those who were linked to the slave trade or engaged in other similarly shameful acts and to determine which individuals should be newly recognized with a monument, memorial, or marker

How it started

Jun 10, 2019 · Proposed by Councillor E. Denise Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 10, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

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

📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2020 #285 (Dec 14, 2020).

Order adoptedJun 10, 2019

Referred for reportAR 2019-74Jun 24, 2019

Administration answeredCMA 2020-285Dec 14, 2020 · answered in 539 days

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

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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 10, 2019