Asked the City Manager to direct the Community Development Department and any other appropriate City personnel to establish a means of providing technical support to marginalized, underrepresented business owners and non-profit arts organizations in applying for and obtaining the critical funds from the Mayor’s Disaster Relief Fund Grant and Loan program, and/or from other similar State and Federal assistance programs, and to report back to the City Council on this matter in a timely manner

How it started

Sep 14, 2020 · Proposed by Councillor E. Denise Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Sep 14, 2020 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous · one absent)

Voted yes (8), unanimous

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

Absent (1)

Dennis Carlone

Roll call of Sep 14, 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: Sep 14, 2020