Asked the City Manager to consult with the appropriate departments on the feasibility of eliminating the use of plastic water bottles at City and School events

How it started

Jan 28, 2019 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Devereux, Councillors McGovern and Zondervan, and Vice Mayor Mallon: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jan 28, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

Recorded in the negative (1)

Timothy J. Toomey

Present for the voice vote (8)

Alanna Mallon
Craig A. Kelley
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Marc McGovern
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui

Adopted by voice vote, with dissent recorded in the minutes. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions, but a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes. Councillor Timothy J. Toomey did (minutes of Jan 28, 2019, p. 23). Showing the other 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 · dissent: council minutes

What’s next

📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2019 #183 (Jun 24, 2019).

Order adoptedJan 28, 2019

Referred for reportAR 2019-11Feb 4, 2019

Administration answeredCMA 2019-183Jun 24, 2019 · answered in 140 days

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

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jan 28, 2019