City further investigate renting space from the New England school of English to house appropriate members of our unhoused community

How it started

Jan 11, 2021 · Proposed by Councillor Marc C. McGovern: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jan 11, 2021 · Held by charter right exercised by Councillor E. Denise Simmons; the item returns at the next meeting

Feb 3, 2021 · ✅ Order adopted as amended (unanimous · two not recorded)

View the roll call

Voted yes (7), unanimous

Dennis Carlone
Patty Nolan
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
Quinton Zondervan

Did not vote (2)

E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey

The roll call records 7 of the 9 seated members (roster: 2020–21 term). The clerk's record does not state whether Councillor Simmons and Councillor Toomey were absent or abstaining on this vote.

Roll call of Feb 3, 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: Jan 11, 2021

Public Comment (2)

2 written comments received (2021-02-03). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.