POR 2020 #85 : That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to repurpose the War Memorial facility into only a COVID-19 testing and temporary quarantine site for unhoused individuals awaiting their test results

How it started

Apr 13, 2020 · Proposed by Councillors Zondervan and Sobrinho-Wheeler: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Apr 13, 2020 · Held by charter right the city's note: “charter right from councillor zondervan”

Apr 27, 2020 · ✅ Order adopted as amended, 7–1. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)

View the roll call

Voted yes (7)

Dennis Carlone
Patty Nolan
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
Quinton Zondervan

Voted no (1)

Timothy J. Toomey

Did not vote (1)

E. Denise Simmons

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

Roll call of Apr 27, 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: Apr 13, 2020

CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR ZONDERVAN IN COUNCIL APRIL 13, 2020

Public Comment (4)

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