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POR 2022-6

Asked the City Manager to work with all relevant City Departments to develop a robust plan to increase access to testing, with the goal of reducing wait times for residents, including, but not limited to, expanding testing sites, hiring staff to operate additional sites, offering "testing tents" set up in City squares, developing a "grab n go" model as used at local universities Harvard and MIT, and more, and to report back to the City Council at the January 24, 2022 City Council meeting

How it started
Jan 10, 2022 · Proposed by Councillor McGovern, Vice Mayor Mallon, Mayor Siddiqui, and Vice Mayor Azeem: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Jan 10, 2022 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous)

Voted yes (9), unanimous

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Patty Nolan
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Quinton Zondervan
  • Burhan Azeem
  • Paul F. Toner
Roll call of Jan 10, 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 (AR 2022 #4 open, 1,669 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
Order adopted, unanimousJan 10, 2022
Referred for reportAR 2022-4Jan 24, 2022
Awaiting answer⏳ pending1,669 days and counting

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: Jan 10, 2022

Public Comment (4)

4 written comments received (2022-04-25). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.