Requiring a 2/3rds vote for approving changes to be forwarded to the legislature and the voters on a future ballot

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 · Reconsideration filed by Councillor Toner; the vote may be retaken (Rule 34)

Sep 9, 2024 · Tabled, unanimous

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Voted yes (8)

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

Did not vote (1)

Joan Pickett

Seated that day per the council roster, but not in the city's roll call for this vote.

Sep 9, 2024 · Reconsideration carried Moved by Councillor Paul F. Toner; carried 8–0.

moved reconsideration of POR 2024 #102

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Sep 9, 2024.

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Voted yes (8)

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

Did not vote (1)

Joan Pickett

Seated that day per the council roster, but not in the city's roll call for this amendment.

Sep 23, 2024 · ✅ Order adopted, 5–3 (Rder adopted finalized through reconsideration september 23, 2024 · one voted present)

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Voted yes (5)

Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Paul F. Toner
Cathie Zusy
E. Denise Simmons

Voted no (3)

Sumbul Siddiqui
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Ayesha M. Wilson

Voted present (1)

Burhan Azeem

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.

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DATE: AUGUST 6, 2024

Dear City Clerk LeBlanc, By this communication, I am notifying you that it is my intention to request Keconsideration of the vote taken on August 5, 2024, relative to POR 2024 #102, that would require a 2/3 vote for approving Charter Changes to be forwarded to the legislature and voters on a future ballot. Given that I was not on the prevailing side, I will first move suspension of the rules to allow this motion for Reconsideration. ine au Signature

AUG-0 PM 4:21

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