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POR 2023-102

Asked the City Manager to increase the Affordable Housing Trust budget in FY24 by 7.1% to equal the increase of the overall city budget, increase the Affordable Housing Trust budget by $20 million through a free cash appropriation, outside of the FY24 budget, and engage in creating a 3-year plan to increase the Affordable Housing Trust budget to 10% of the overall City budget. POLICY ORDER FROM FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT MAY 16, 2023 AND MAY 18, 2023

How it started
Jun 5, 2023 · Proposed by Councillor E. Denise Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Jun 5, 2023 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Patty Nolan; carried 7–2.
by substitution with two new orders, each requiring a separate vote, as follows. 1.ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to increase the Affordable Housing Trust budget in FY 24 by 7.1% to equal the increase of the overall City Budget. 2.ORDERED:That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to increase the Affordable Housing Trust budget by $20 million through a free cash appropriation outside of the FY24 budget, and engage in creating a 3-year plan to increase the Affordable Housing Trust budget to 10% of the overall City budget
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jun 5, 2023, p. 6.
Jun 5, 2023 · ↪ Referred onward for further work (Referred)
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Voted yes (7)

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Dennis Carlone
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Sumbul Siddiqui

Voted no (2)

  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Quinton Zondervan
Roll call of Jun 5, 2023 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge
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Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2023-06-12). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.