Asked the City Manager to instruct the Law Department to draft an amendment to the "Transfer Fee Home Rule petition" that sets a threshold of the purchase price at "not less than $1,000,000" and further to ask the Solicitor for a recommendation about how best to direct the funds generated by the fee to home ownership production

How it started

Jun 21, 2021 · Proposed by Councillors Zondervan and Carlone, Vice Mayor Mallon, Councillors Sobrinho-Wheeler, McGovern, and Nolan, and Mayor Siddiqui: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 21, 2021 · ✅ Order adopted. 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 Jun 21, 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: Jun 21, 2021