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POR 2021-108

City Manager be and hereby is ordered to consult with relevant Department heads on other broadband benefits programs offered by the Federal government, and report back to the City Council on the City’s plans to leverage these funds in pursuit of Digital Equity

How it started
May 17, 2021 · Proposed by Councillors McGovern and Nolan, Mayor Siddiqui, Vice Mayor Mallon, and Councillors Carlone, Simmons, Sobrinho-Wheeler, Toomey, and Zondervan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
May 17, 2021 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. 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 May 17, 2021 · from the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2021 #249 (Nov 15, 2021).
Order adopted as amended, unanimousMay 17, 2021
Referred for reportAR 2021-38May 24, 2021
Administration answeredCMA 2021-249Nov 15, 2021 · answered in 175 days

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

🏛 This item on the city's site
🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: May 17, 2021

Public Comment (2)

2 written comments received (2021-05-17). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.