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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 happened
May 17, 2021 · Held by charter right exercised by Councillor Patty Nolan; the item returns at the next meeting
May 25, 2021 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous · one absent)
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
Roll call of May 25, 2021 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2022 #44 (Mar 7, 2022).
🏛 This item on the city's site
🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: May 17, 2021

Public Comment (2)

2 written comments received (2021-05-25 – 2021-06-07). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.