Asked the City Manager to work with all relevant departments, boards, and commissions to strive to publish, whenever practicable, meeting agendas and all supporting documents, presentations, and related materials sufficiently in advance of public meetings to allow residents time to review and prepare

How it started

Dec 8, 2025 · Proposed by Councillors Simmons, Sobrinho-Wheeler, Toner, McGovern, Nolan, and Zusy: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Dec 8, 2025 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous)

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

Roll call of Dec 8, 2025 · 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: Dec 8, 2025

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2025-12-15). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.