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POR 2021-75

City Council shall have its own budget for outside legal research to be utilized at the discretion of the Council when designated by a majority of members in pursuance of the Council’s authority to exercise the legislative powers of the City as specified in the City charter

How it started
Apr 12, 2021 · Proposed by Councillors Sobrinho-Wheeler and Carlone, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillor Zondervan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Apr 12, 2021 · Held by charter right the city's note: “exercised by Councillor Simmons”
Apr 26, 2021 · Placed on the table, 5–4
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Voted yes (5)

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Timothy J. Toomey

Voted no (4)

  • Patty Nolan
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Quinton Zondervan
May 3, 2021 · ✅ Order adopted, 7–2
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Voted yes (7)

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

Voted no (2)

  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Timothy J. Toomey
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.
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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Apr 12, 2021