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POR 2020-178

The City Manager look into transferring primary traffic enforcement responsibilities from the Cambridge Police Department to unarmed, trained enforcement personnel in the Traffic & Parking Department, Department of Public Works, Health & Human Services, or another suitable department

How it started
Jul 27, 2020 · Proposed by Councillors Zondervan and Sobrinho-Wheeler: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Jul 27, 2020 · Held by charter right the city's note: “by Vice Mayor Mallon”
Oct 14, 2020 · Heard in committee: Public Safety Committee testimony and discussion; any committee vote is in the committee's minutes
Sep 14, 2020 · ↪ Sent to a Council committee for closer study, 8–1 (Referred to committee)
View the roll call

Voted yes (8)

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

Voted no (1)

  • Timothy J. Toomey
Roll call of Sep 14, 2020 · from the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge
🏛 This item on the city's site
🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jul 27, 2020

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2020-07-27). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.