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POR 2024-101

City Council will only consider Charter Review Committee recommendations which received a 2/3rds vote as stated in the Charter Review Ordinance

How it started
Aug 5, 2024 · Proposed by Councillors Toner and Pickett: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Aug 5, 2024 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Burhan Azeem; carried 8–0.
the “Ordered” by striking the word “only” and replacing it with the word “first” and striking the words “as stated in the Charter Review Ordinance” and adding at the end of the sentence the words “and then any brought forth by City Councillors”
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Aug 5, 2024, p. 14.
View the roll call on the amendment

Voted yes (8)

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Ayesha M. Wilson
  • E. Denise Simmons

Absent (1)

  • Joan Pickett
Aug 5, 2024 · ✅ Order adopted as amended (unanimous · one absent)
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Voted yes (8), unanimous

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Ayesha M. Wilson
  • E. Denise Simmons

Absent (1)

  • Joan Pickett
Roll call of Aug 5, 2024 · 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.
The document Agenda item attachment · 1 page

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WHEREAS: On June 25, 2024, the Government Operations, Rules, and Clams Committee met to discuss the recommendations of the Charter Review Committee (CRC); and

WHEREAS: The Committee voted to recommend that the full City Council only consider Charter Review Committee recommendations which received a 2/3rds vote as stated in the Charter Review Ordinance by a vote of 3 in favor, 1 Present, and 1 Opposed; now therefore be it

ORDERED:

That the City Council will only consider Charter Review Committee recommendations

which received a 2/3rds vote as stated in the Charter Review Ordinance.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Aug 5, 2024