City Council support for Massachusetts’ community colleges and state universities and urging the state Legislature to pass the DRIVE Act with an amendment to cover student supports and other cuts beyond research grants as a first step toward public higher education funding that adequately supports students, faculty and staff

How it started

Oct 20, 2025 · Proposed by Councillors Sobrinho-Wheeler, McGovern, and Nolan and Mayor Siddiqui: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Oct 20, 2025 · ✅ Order adopted, 8–1

Voted yes (8)

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

Voted no (1)

Cathie Zusy

Roll call of Oct 20, 2025 · from the city’s record · 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: Oct 20, 2025

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2025-10-27). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.