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POR 2019-7

City Manager work with the Cambridge Arts Council and Community Development Department to make the appropriate updates to the City's 1% for arts ordinance

How it started
Jan 7, 2019 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Mallon and Councillors McGovern and Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Jan 7, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

Present and voting at this meeting (9)

  • Alanna Mallon
  • Craig A. Kelley
  • Dennis Carlone
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Jan Devereux
  • 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
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.
The document a council order
City of Cambridge
IN CITY COUNCIL
January 7, 2019

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with the Cambridge Arts Council and Community Development Department to determine: • Which projects have met the 1% threshold and which have fallen short • Why the 1% threshold is met with certain construction projects but not others • The origin of the $100,000 cap, and whether or not it still applies to current projects • Equity considerations related to site-based art, such as whether the art is publicly accessible (in the case of the King Open School), or whether art is concentrated in select neighborhoods The distribution method of funds and whether it can be adjusted to account for ensuring that all mediums and disciplines of art, including live performance art, receive funding; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager report back to the City Council on this matter as soon as possible.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jan 7, 2019

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2019-06-03). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.