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POR 2022-292

ORDERED: That the Rules of the City Council be amended by substitution to replace Rule 21 with the following language: Rule 21. All matters of whatever description, except Applications and Petitions, which require action by the City Council at its meeting shall be presented to the City Clerk by 12:00 p. m. on the Thursday preceding the regular meeting. During a week in which a legal holiday falls on a Friday, said matters shall be presented to the City Clerk by 12:00 p.m. on the Wednesday preceding the regular meeting. Communications submitted later will be held over for the next regular meeting, except that where the City Manager believes that emergency or exigent circumstances require him or her to present to the City Council a matter which was not presented to the City Clerk by the 12:00 p.m. deadline, the City Manager may present such matters to the City Council at its meeting in writing as part of a Supplemental Agenda of the City Manager

How it started
Nov 21, 2022 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Nov 21, 2022 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous)

Voted yes (9), unanimous

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Dennis Carlone
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Quinton Zondervan
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
Roll call of Nov 21, 2022 · from the council’s minutes · 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: Nov 21, 2022