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POR 2021-103

Asked the City Manager to work with the City Solicitor’s Office to draft a Home Rule Petition that would cap campaign contributions to any City Council candidate to $200 per person, per year, per candidate

How it started
May 10, 2021 · Proposed by Councillor Marc C. McGovern: 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 MCGOVERN IN COUNCIL MAY 10, 2021”
May 17, 2021 · ✅ Order adopted, 7–2. The Council's request went to the City Manager.
View the roll call

Voted yes (7)

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

Voted no (2)

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Quinton Zondervan
Roll call of May 17, 2021 · 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: May 10, 2021