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POR 2024-50

Asked the City Manager to direct the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department, the Department of Public Works, the Community Development Department, and the Law Department to draft proposed amendments to the Cycling Safety Ordinance to extend the deadline associated with the completion of those sections of the ordinance that are required to be completed by May 1, 2026

How it started
Apr 8, 2024 · Proposed by Councillors Toner, Pickett, and Wilson: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Apr 8, 2024 · Held by charter right the city's note: “EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR WHEELER”
Apr 30, 2024 · Amendment failed Moved by Vice Mayor Marc McGovern; failed 4–5.
POR 2024 #50 by substitution, copy attached
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Apr 30, 2024, p. 17.
Apr 30, 2024 · Reconsideration failed Moved by Councillor Paul F. Toner; failed 1–8.
made a motion to reconsider the vote to adopt POR 2024 #50
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Apr 30, 2024.
View the roll call on the amendment

Voted yes (1)

  • Marc McGovern

Voted no (8)

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Patty Nolan
  • Joan Pickett
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Ayesha M. Wilson
  • E. Denise Simmons
Apr 30, 2024 · ✅ Order adopted, 5–4. The Council's request went to the City Manager.
View the roll call

Voted yes (5)

  • Patty Nolan
  • Joan Pickett
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Ayesha M. Wilson
  • E. Denise Simmons

Voted no (4)

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Marc McGovern
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Roll call of Apr 30, 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.
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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Apr 8, 2024

Public Comment (515)

515 written comments received (2024-04-29 – 2024-08-05). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.