Asked the City Manager to establish a City policy that prohibits the use of Second-Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides on City-owned properties and by City contractors except in circumstances where, with a written emergency waiver provided by the Public Health Department, such is deemed to be required

How it started

Jun 16, 2025 · Proposed by Councillors McGovern and Nolan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 16, 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. 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: Jun 16, 2025