Asked the City Manager to confer with the appropriate City staff and Eversource personnel to determine why the signals at Broadway and Ellery, which add an element of confusion to this intersection, were installed without Eversource’s being able to connect them to the grid in a more responsive manner

How it started

Jun 17, 2019 · Proposed by Councillors Kelley, Simmons, Toomey, and McGovern: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 17, 2019 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Craig A. Kelley; carried 8–0.

to strike “Eliot” and insert “Ellery.”

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jun 17, 2019, p. 13.

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Voted yes (8)

Dennis Carlone
Jan Devereux
Craig A. Kelley
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey

Did not vote (1)

Quinton Zondervan

Seated that day per the council roster, but not in the city's roll call for this amendment.

Jun 17, 2019 · Amendment carried Mover not named in the minutes; carried 8–0.The minutes of Jun 17, 2019 record this vote but not the wording of the amendment.

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Voted yes (8)

Dennis Carlone
Jan Devereux
Craig A. Kelley
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey

Absent (1)

Quinton Zondervan

Jun 17, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one absent)

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Present and voting at this meeting (8)

Dennis Carlone
Jan Devereux
Craig A. Kelley
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
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 #223 (Jul 30, 2019).

The document a council order

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City of Cambridge

IN CITY COUNCIL

June 17, 2019

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the appropriate City staff and Eversource personnel to determine why the signals, which add an element of confusion to this intersection, were installed without Eversource’s being able to connect them to the grid in a more responsive manner, to include what communications City staff have had with Eversource to emphasize the importance of this issue as well as how future traffic installations will be coordinated with Eversource to ensure more efficient connection installation; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to communicate directly with Eversource about the importance of these traffic signals becoming functional in the immediate future; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back to the City Council on this issue by the summer meeting.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 17, 2019