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POR 2020-170

The City Manager be and hereby is requested to consult with the Director of the Cambridge Public Library, the Library Board of Trustees, and any other appropriate City personnel to consider formally renaming the Central Square Library in honor of Maria Baldwin and Rep. John Lewis, with the building being known as “The Maria Baldwin and Rep. John Lewis Library and Center for African American/Black History and Culture” going forward, or to otherwise find another suitable location for this dedication

How it started
Jul 27, 2020 · Proposed by Councillors Simmons, Toomey, McGovern, and Sobrinho-Wheeler: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Jul 27, 2020 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous)

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 Jul 27, 2020 · from the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2021 #170 (Jun 21, 2021).
Order adopted, unanimousJul 27, 2020
Referred for reportAR 2020-37Sep 14, 2020
Administration answeredCMA 2021-170Jun 21, 2021 · answered in 280 days

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

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