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POR 2024-116

Asked the City Manager to direct the appropriate City staff to enact policy that will extend the priority period for Social Equity and Equity Empowerment cannabis business applicants for a period of six months to one year, or until guidance has been received from the Cannabis Control Commission

How it started
Sep 9, 2024 · Proposed by Councillors Simmons and Toner, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillor Wilson: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Sep 9, 2024 · ✅ Order adopted as amended, 7–0. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one voted present · one not recorded)

Voted yes (7)

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

Voted present (1)

  • Burhan Azeem

Did not vote (1)

  • Joan Pickett

The roll call records 8 of the 9 seated members (roster: 2024–25 term). The clerk's record does not state whether Councillor Pickett was absent or abstaining on this vote.

Roll call of Sep 9, 2024 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2024 #201 (Sep 16, 2024).
Order adopted as amended, 7–0Sep 9, 2024
Referred for reportAR 2024-48Sep 16, 2024
Administration answeredCMA 2024-201Sep 16, 2024 · answered in 0 days

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

🏛 This item on the city's site
🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Sep 9, 2024