Recognize August 31, 2023, as International Overdose Awareness Day and September 2023 as National Recovery Month in the City of Cambridge and that the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate City staff to light City Hall up purple from August 31 through September 30, 2023, in recognition of International Overdose Awareness Day and National Recovery Month

How it started

Aug 7, 2023 · Proposed by Mayor Siddiqui, Councillor McGovern, Vice Mayor Azeem, and Councillor Nolan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Aug 7, 2023 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous · two absent)

Voted yes (7), unanimous

Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
E. Denise Simmons
Paul F. Toner
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui

Absent (2)

Dennis Carlone
Alanna Mallon

Roll call of Aug 7, 2023 · 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.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Aug 7, 2023