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POR 2020-10

Asked the City Manager to confer with relevant City Departments, and, where relevant, the MBTA and counterparts in other municipalities for routes not wholly in Cambridge, on the feasibility of instituting and funding a fare-free pilot bus program

How it started
Jan 27, 2020 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Mallon, Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, and Mayor Siddiqui: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Jan 27, 2020 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

Present and voting at this meeting (9)

  • Alanna Mallon
  • Dennis Carlone
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty 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 2020 #4 open, 2,390 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
Order adopted as amendedJan 27, 2020
Referred for reportAR 2020-4Feb 3, 2020
Awaiting answer⏳ pending2,390 days and counting

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City of Cambridge
IN CITY COUNCIL
January 27, 2020

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and is hereby requested to confer with relevant City Departments, and, where relevant, the MBTA and counterparts in other municipalities for routes not wholly in Cambridge, on the feasibility of instituting and funding a fare- free pilot bus program; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back to the City Council in a timely manner. In City Council January 27, 2020. Adopted by the affirmative vote of nine members. Attest:- Anthony I. Wilson, City Clerk A true copy; ATTEST:- Anthony I. Wilson, City Clerk

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jan 27, 2020

Public Comment (22)

22 written comments received (2020-05-04 – 2020-11-23). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.