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POR 2023-98

Asked the City Manager to work with the Law Department to provide a legal opinion on whether the City could fund affordable housing construction through a bond issue

How it started
May 22, 2023 · Proposed by Councillor Zondervan and Vice Mayor Azeem: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
May 22, 2023 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. 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 May 22, 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 (AR 2023 #39 open, 1,179 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
Order adopted as amended, unanimousMay 22, 2023
Referred for reportAR 2023-39Jun 5, 2023
Awaiting answer⏳ pending1,179 days and counting

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

The document Agenda item attachment · 1 page

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WHEREAS: In Awaiting Reports AR-21-30, the City Council asked the City Manager to fund the construction of subsidized housing through a bond issue of no less than $500 Million; now therefore be it

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with the Law Department to provide a legal opinion on whether the City could fund affordable housing construction through a bond issue; and be it further

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back on this matter by the end of June 2023.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: May 22, 2023