City Manager explore short-term solutions to expand essential internet access to Cambridge residents who lack it during the pandemic until such time that a municipal broadband network can be implemented

How it started

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

What happened

Mar 30, 2020 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous)

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 Mar 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.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Mar 30, 2020

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2020-04-06). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.