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POR 2022-114

Creation of an Ad-Hoc Committee for ad-hoc committee for the purpose of reviewing and selecting self-nominated residents and stakeholders to be on the Charter review Commission

How it started
Jun 6, 2022 · Proposed by Mayor Siddiqui and Councillor Nolan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Jun 6, 2022 · Held by charter right the city's note: “Azeem CR.”
Jun 13, 2022 · ✅ Order adopted as amended (unanimous)
View the roll call

Voted yes (9), unanimous

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Patty Nolan
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Burhan Azeem
  • Quinton Zondervan
Roll call of Jun 13, 2022 · 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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Calendar Item # 3

The City Council is currently in the process of forming a Charter Review Commission; and

In an effort to ensure we have a candidate selection process that is balanced, there is a desire to have multiple City Council members select self-nominated candidates for the Charter Review Commission; and

It has been determined that an ad-hoc committee can be formed from members of the City Council to appoint members to the Charter Review Commission; now therefore be it

That an ad-hoc committee of the Cambridge City Council be formed for the purpose of reviewing and selecting self-nominated residents and stakeholders to be on the Charter Review Commission with the following four (4) City Council members:

Mayor Siddiqui

Vice Mayor Mallon

Councillor Nolan

Councillor Toner

That the ad-hoc committee confers with the Law Department prior to any meeting to discuss confidentiality and open meeting law issues; be it further ordered

That the ad-hoc committee will ensure the full City Council has input into the Charter Review Commission Members and will put a communication on the June 27, 2022 Council meeting agenda with a list of Commission Members.

In City Council June 13, 2022. Adopted by a yea and nay vote:- Yeas 9; Nays 0; Absent 0. Attest:- Paula M. Crane, Interim City Clerk

A true copy; ATTEST:-

Paula M. Crane, Interim City Clerk

History: 06/06/22

City Council

CHARTER RIGHT

Next: 06/13/22

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 6, 2022