City Manager be requested to have the City Solicitor report back to the City Council about (1) whether the City must file a home rule petition to require that lobbyists register with the city and disclose campaign contributions to municipal officials, (2) whether the City must file a home rule petition to limit donations from non-residents who have business pending before the council; and (3) reiterate the Council's previous request to form a task force to explore public financing for municipal elections, particularly focused on vouchers and matching donations

How it started

Nov 18, 2019 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Jan Devereux: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Nov 18, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous · one absent)

Voted yes (8), unanimous

Dennis Carlone
Jan Devereux
Alanna Mallon
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey
Quinton Zondervan
Marc McGovern

Absent (1)

Craig A. Kelley

Roll call of Nov 18, 2019 · from the council’s minutes · 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: Nov 18, 2019