City Council support of H.2963, An Act relative to payments in lieu of taxation by organizations exempt from the property tax, to ensure municipalities are fairly compensated and their long-term budgetary needs are preserved

How it started

Apr 8, 2024 · Proposed by Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillors McGovern 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 TONER”

Apr 30, 2024 · ✅ Order adopted, 7–2

View the roll call

Voted yes (7)

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

Voted no (2)

Joan Pickett
Paul F. Toner

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.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Apr 8, 2024

Public Comment (2)

2 written comments received (2024-04-29 – 2024-05-06). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.