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POR 2021-249

Asked the City Manager to instruct the Law Department to provide a legal opinion regarding the effect of the proposed Ordinance to Limit and monitor campaign donations on the petitioners of a Citizens’ Petition and the Owners, Board members and employees of an organization seeking financial assistance from the city of Cambridge; and to draft enforcement language and to draft language exempting labor unions from the Ordinance and to provide an opinion about whether Somerville’s Ordinance regarding campaign donations would survive a legal challenge

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 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous)

Voted yes (9), unanimous

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Timothy J. Toomey
  • Quinton Zondervan
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
Roll call of Nov 8, 2021 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2021 #273 (Dec 6, 2021).
Order adopted, unanimousNov 8, 2021
Referred for reportAR 2021-88Nov 22, 2021
Administration answeredCMA 2021-273Dec 6, 2021 · answered in 14 days

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

🏛 This item on the city's site
🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Nov 8, 2021