City manager be and hereby is requested to work with all relevant city departments, the Central Square BID and the MBTA to close Mass Ave. from Prospect Street to Sydney Street on Friday and Saturday evenings from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. through September 2021 and report back to the Council

How it started

May 10, 2021 · Proposed by Councillors McGovern and Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

May 10, 2021 · Held by charter right the city's note: “CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR ZONDERVAN IN COUNCIL MAY 10, 2021”

May 17, 2021 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous · one not recorded)

View the roll call

Voted yes (8), unanimous

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

Did not vote (1)

Quinton Zondervan

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

Roll call of May 17, 2021 · from the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2021 #176 (Jun 28, 2021).

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: May 10, 2021