Asked the City Manager to work with the Office of the Housing Liaison and all relevant departments to ensure the successful implementation of an outreach and assistance campaign to provide broad and equitable access to eviction record sealing for eligible Cambridge tenants

How it started

Mar 24, 2025 · Proposed by Mayor Siddiqui and Councillors Sobrinho-Wheeler, Simmons, and Wilson: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Mar 24, 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 #21 open, 514 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

Order adoptedMar 24, 2025

Referred for reportAR 2025-21Mar 31, 2025

Awaiting answer⏳ pending514 days and counting

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Mar 24, 2025