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POR 2026-121

Asked the City Manager to use the Federal Stabilization Fund to provide one-time stabilization payments to Cambridge-based and Cambridge-serving organizations impacted by FY27 MOVA cuts, report back to the City Council with a proposed funding plan, and work with the Mayor's Office and other relevant City staff to engage with the broader Cambridge nonprofit community to assess the full scope of federal and state funding reductions and their impact on the City's safety net services

How it started
Jun 4, 2026 · Proposed by Mayor Siddiqui and Councillors McGovern, Sobrinho-Wheeler, and Zusy: a formal request from the Council to the administration. Joined at the meeting by Councillor Flaherty, added from the floor by motion.
What happened
Jun 22, 2026 · ✅ Order adopted as amended: first paused by a charter right, then adopted two weeks later; the request went to the City Manager. (Adopted as amended, unanimous · one absent)

Voted yes (8), unanimous

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Tim Flaherty
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Cathie Zusy
  • Sumbul Siddiqui

Absent (1)

  • Ayah Al-Zubi
Roll call of Jun 22, 2026 · 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.
Taken upJun 4, 2026
Held on a charter rightAl-ZubiJun 8, 2026
Adopted as amended, 8-0-1Jun 22, 2026

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The document Agenda item attachment · 2 pages
🏛 The city's agenda for this meeting: Jun 8, 2026the city publishes no page for a single item: this one is a row on that agenda📄 Download original PDF

That the City Council go on the record reaffirming its commitment to standing with victims and survivors of crime, and preserving Cambridge's network of victim services, violence prevention, legal advocacy, housing stabilization, and culturally responsive community-based support during this extraordinary period of federal disinvestment. In City Council June 22, 2026. Adopted as Amended by a yea and nay vote:-

Yeas 8; Nays 0; Absent 1.-

Attest:- Paula M. Crane, Interim City Clerk A true copy; ATTEST:- Paula M. Crane

Interim City Clerk

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 8, 2026