Asked the City Manager to work with DCR to explore closing Memorial Drive for the duration of the Stay at Home order to give people in Cambridge a safe space to exercise and be outside without violating social distancing practiceser

How it started

Mar 30, 2020 · Proposed by Councillor Zondervan, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillors Nolan and Sobrinho-Wheeler: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Mar 30, 2020 · Held by charter right exercised by Councillor E. Denise Simmons; the item returns at the next meeting

Apr 6, 2020 · Placed on the table, 5–4

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Voted yes (5)

Dennis Carlone
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey

Voted no (4)

Patty Nolan
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Alanna Mallon
Quinton Zondervan

Apr 13, 2020 · ✅ Order adopted, 5–3. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)

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Voted yes (5)

Dennis Carlone
Patty Nolan
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Alanna Mallon
Quinton Zondervan

Voted no (3)

Marc McGovern
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey

Did not vote (1)

Sumbul Siddiqui

The roll call records 8 of the 9 seated members (roster: 2020–21 term). The clerk's record does not state whether Mayor Siddiqui was absent or abstaining on this vote.

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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: Mar 30, 2020

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2020-04-13). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.