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POR 2020-274

Asked the City Manager to work with the Community Development Department and other pertinent City staff to establish a Black and Brown-Owned Business Taskforce, to be focused upon strengthening the City’s outreach efforts, information-sharing, assistance mechanisms, and overall relationship with local Black and Brown-owned businesses, and to establish a rolling set of recommendations designed to ensure the City spares no effort in assisting these businesses

How it started
Nov 23, 2020 · Proposed by Councillors Simmons, McGovern, and Toomey and Vice Mayor Mallon: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Nov 23, 2020 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous)

Voted yes (9), unanimous

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Timothy J. Toomey
  • Quinton Zondervan
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
Roll call of Nov 23, 2020 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2021 #99 (May 3, 2021).
Order adopted, unanimousNov 23, 2020
Referred for reportAR 2020-66Nov 30, 2020
Administration answeredCMA 2021-99May 3, 2021 · answered in 154 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: Nov 23, 2020