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POR 2025-156

City Manager provide an update at the October 27, 2025 City Council meeting regarding the pause in SNAP benefits due to the government shutdown

How it started
Oct 27, 2025 · Proposed by Councillors McGovern and Simmons, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillor Wilson: a formal request from the Council to the administration. Introduced late, under Rule 36A: added after the agenda was published, so it reached the floor only on a suspension of the rules.
What happened
Oct 27, 2025 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous · one absent)

Voted yes (8), unanimous

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

Absent (1)

  • E. Denise Simmons
Roll call of Oct 27, 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.
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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Oct 27, 2025