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POR 2021-166

Asked the City Manager to direct the appropriate City staff to establish a restitution program that would take a to-be-determined percentage of revenue from local cannabis sales and distribute these monies to current and former Cambridge residents who have been harmed by the war on drugs, with a targeted launch date of July 2022

How it started
Aug 2, 2021 · Proposed by Councillors Zondervan, Simmons, and Nolan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Aug 2, 2021 · Tabled, unanimous
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Voted yes (9)

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Patty Nolan
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Timothy J. Toomey
  • Quinton Zondervan
Sep 13, 2021 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous)
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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
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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: Aug 2, 2021