City Manager be and is hereby requested to review the order and align it with guidelines promulgated by the CDC, WHO, Dr. Fauci, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to make clear face coverings are required in public settings only when physical distancing is not possible

How it started

May 4, 2020 · Proposed by Councillors Nolan, Sobrinho-Wheeler, and Zondervan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

May 4, 2020 · Held by charter right one member's right to pause; the item returns at the next meeting

May 11, 2020 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous)

View the roll call

Voted yes (9), unanimous

Dennis Carlone
Patty Nolan
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey
Quinton Zondervan

Roll call of May 11, 2020 · from the city’s record · 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: May 4, 2020

Public Comment (3)

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