Asked the City Manager to work with the Department of Public Works, the Water Department and members of the Pod Patrol to reach out to Somerville and local organizations, including the Cambridge Plant and Garden Club, the Cambridge Committee on Public Planting, and Green Cambridge, to coordinate with Somerville’s efforts in initiating more robust and regional public outreach on the dangers of black swallow-wort

How it started

Jul 30, 2019 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Devereux, Councillor Zondervan, and Mayor Siddiqui: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jul 30, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

Present and voting at this meeting (11)

Alanna Mallon
Craig A. Kelley
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Marc McGovern
Patricia Nolan
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

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jul 30, 2019