Agenda Items ▸ Policy Orders
POR 2021-109
City Manager be and is hereby requested to work with the Purchasing Department to review Cambridge’s corporate contracts and purchases to identify any vendors or manufacturers whose products are used to perpetuate violations of International Human Rights Laws and Cambridge’s policy on discrimination; and further be it
How it started
May 17, 2021 · Proposed by Councillors Nolan, McGovern, and Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happenedMay 25, 2021 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous · one absent)
May 17, 2021 · Held by charter right exercised by Councillor Patty Nolan; the item returns at the next meeting
View the roll call
Voted yes (8), unanimous
Patty Nolan
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey
Quinton Zondervan
Absent (1)
Dennis Carlone
What’s next
📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2022 #44 (Mar 7, 2022).
Public Comment (2)
2 written comments received (2021-05-25 – 2021-06-07). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.