Policy Order to strengthen community bonds and ensure equitable access to neighborhood organizations

How it started

Nov 23, 2020 · Proposed by Councillor McGovern, Vice Mayor Mallon, and Councillors Simmons and Nolan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Nov 23, 2020 · Held by charter right the city's note: “CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR NOLAN IN COUNCIL NOVEMBER 23, 2020”

Nov 30, 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 Nov 30, 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.

The document Agenda item attachment · 3 pages

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That the meeting be scheduled with outreach to all existing neighborhood groups with the announced agenda including asking each group what they might want to learn from each other and what they might want to share as best practice so all neighborhood groups which have had success in any areas – recruitment, outreach, engagement, etc. - have an opportunity to share success as well as challenges.

In City Council November 30, 2020. Order Adopted as Amended by a yea and nay vote:- Yeas 9; Nays 0; Absent 0. Attest:- Anthony I. Wilson, City Clerk

A true copy;

ATTEST:- Anthony I. Wilson, City Clerk

History: 11/23/20

City Council

CHARTER RIGHT

Next: 11/30/20

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Nov 23, 2020

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2020-11-23). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.