Asked the City Manager to confer with the Election Commission, the City Solicitor, and the City Clerk, and report back to the City Council no later than the September 15, 2025 City Council meeting on the Policy Order regarding the deadline for Charter Change

How it started

Sep 8, 2025 · Proposed by Councillors Simmons and Toner: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Sep 8, 2025 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

Present and voting at this meeting (9)

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

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number (AR 2025 #50 open, 339 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

Order adoptedSep 8, 2025

Referred for reportAR 2025-50Sep 15, 2025

Awaiting answer⏳ pending339 days and counting

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 8, 2025