Policy Order Asking That Juneteenth Be Made an Official City Observance

How it started

Jun 22, 2020 · Proposed by Councillor Simmons, Vice Mayor Mallon, Councillors Carlone, Sobrinho-Wheeler, McGovern, Nolan, and Zondervan, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillor Toomey: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 22, 2020 · Held by charter right the city's note: “CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR ZONDERVAN IN COUNCIL JUNE 22, 2020”

Jun 29, 2020 · ✅ Order adopted as amended (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 Jun 29, 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: Jun 29, 2020

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2020-06-29). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.