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POR 2021-46

Asked the City Manager to direct the Historical Commission to initiate a process to begin chronicling the rich and vibrant history of people of color in Cambridge, similar to other City-commissioned books such as “We Are the Port: Stories of Place, Perseverance, and Pride in the Port/Area 4 Cambridge, Massachusetts 1845-2005” and “All in the Same Boat” and “Crossroads: Stories of Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1912-2000”

How it started
Mar 15, 2021 · Proposed by Councillor E. Denise Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Mar 15, 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 Mar 15, 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 (AR 2021 #17 open, 1,977 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
Order adopted, unanimousMar 15, 2021
Referred for reportAR 2021-17Mar 22, 2021
Awaiting answer⏳ pending1,977 days and counting

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

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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Mar 15, 2021