Asked the City Manager to direct the Law Department to draft Home Rule Petition language for a Fire Cadet Program similar to the language used in the Police Department Home Rule Petition

How it started

Jan 4, 2021 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Mallon and Councillors McGovern, Toomey, and Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jan 4, 2021 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous · one not recorded)

Voted yes (9), unanimous

Dennis Carlone
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
E. Denise Simmons
Jivan Sobrinha-Wheeler
Timothy J. Toomey
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui

Did not vote (1)

Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler

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

Roll call of Jan 4, 2021 · from the council’s minutes · 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: Jan 4, 2021

Public Comment (12)

12 written comments received (2021-02-03 – 2021-12-13). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.