TheCambridge Record
Agenda Items ▸ Policy Orders

POR 2021-248

Attached Home Petition titled “PETITION FOR AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE TO ENACT AN ORDINANCE TO LIMIT AND MONITOR CAMPAIGN DONATIONS IN LOCAL ELECTIONS BY INDIVIDUALS SEEKING FINANCIAL REWARD FROM THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE” be forwarded to the General Court for adoption

How it started
Nov 8, 2021 · Proposed by Councillor Dennis J. Carlone: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Nov 8, 2021 · Placed on the table, 7–0
View the roll call

Voted yes (7)

  • 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
Seated that day per the council roster, but not in the city's roll call for this vote.
Dec 6, 2021 · Tabled, 8–0
View the roll call

Voted yes (8)

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Patty Nolan
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Timothy J. Toomey
  • Quinton Zondervan

Did not vote (1)

  • E. Denise Simmons
Seated that day per the council roster, but not in the city's roll call for this vote.
Dec 20, 2021 · ▫ Placed on the table, unanimous (No action taken)
View the roll call

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
From the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge
The document Agenda item attachment · 1 page
🏛 This item on the city's site📄 Download original PDF

SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the City of Cambridge is hereby authorized to enact an ordinance to limit and monitor campaign donations in local elections by individuals seeking financial reward from the City of Cambridge, as provided in the attached Ordinance, and as such Ordinance may be amended in the future as long as such amendments are of the type that are within the City’s home rule powers to adopt. SECTION 2.

Individuals subject to the Ordinance shall be those persons and entities defined in the Ordinance. SECTION 3. This Act shall be effective after its enactment and after acceptance by affirmative vote of a majority of the Cambridge City Council.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Nov 8, 2021

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2021-12-06). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.