Asked the City Manager to instruct the City Solicitor to provide a legal opinion to the City Council about the legality of providing funding to non-profits related to the cannabis establishments and how this funding can be used for economic empowerment entrepreneurs

How it started

Jul 30, 2019 · Proposed by Councillor Dennis J. Carlone: 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 (AR 2019 #102 open, 2,537 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

Order adoptedJul 30, 2019

Referred for reportAR 2019-102Sep 9, 2019

Awaiting answer⏳ pending2,537 days and counting

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: Jul 30, 2019