Agenda Items ▸ Policy Orders
POR 2025-117
Asked the City Manager to work with the appropriate City staff to ensure that, effective immediately (and for each fiscal year in which the Office for Tourism continues to receive TDMD funding) that the City shall redirect its municipal funding to distribute those funds equally among the Central Square Business Improvement District (BID), the East Cambridge Business Association, the Harvard Square Business Association, and the Kendall Square Association
How it started
Sep 8, 2025 · Proposed by Councillors Simmons and McGovern: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happenedSep 15, 2025 · ↪ Sent to a Council committee for closer study (Referred to committee, unanimous)
Sep 8, 2025 · Held by charter right the city's note: “EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR TONER”
Dec 16, 2025 · Heard in committee: Economic Development & University Relations Committee testimony and discussion; any committee vote is in the committee's minutes
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Voted yes (9), unanimous
Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Sumbul Siddiqui
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Paul F. Toner
Ayesha M. Wilson
Cathie Zusy
E. Denise Simmons
Public Comment (1)
1 written comment received (2025-09-29). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.