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POR 2019-49

Asked the City Manager to direct the appropriate City staff to take an inventory of the empty tree wells in the Port and to establish a plan for replenishing these throughout the spring season and determine where additional "smart" trash receptacles can be placed throughout the Port

How it started
Feb 11, 2019 · Proposed by Councillor Simmons, Vice Mayor Mallon, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillor Kelley: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Feb 11, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

  • Alanna Mallon
  • Craig A. Kelley
  • Dennis Carlone
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Marc McGovern
  • 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
📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2019 #69 (Apr 1, 2019).
Order adopted as amendedFeb 11, 2019
Referred for reportAR 2019-19Feb 25, 2019
Administration answeredCMA 2019-69Apr 1, 2019 · answered in 35 days

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City of Cambridge
IN CITY COUNCIL
February 11, 2019

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the appropriate City staff to take an inventory of the empty tree wells in the Port and to establish a plan for replenishing these throughout the spring season; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the appropriate City staff to determine where additional “smart“ trash receptacles (those which send an electronic alert to the DPW when they are full) could be placed throughout the Port neighborhood, and to establish a plan to distribute these throughout the Port no later than the first day of summer; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back to the City Council on these matters within one month.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Feb 11, 2019