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POR 2026-46

RECOGNIZE MAY 2026 AS MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH IN THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE AND THAT THE CITY MANAGER DIRECT THE APPROPRIATE CITY STAFF TO ILLUMINATE CITY HALL IN GREEN FOR MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH FROM MAY 4 – MAY 10, 2026

How it started
Feb 26, 2026 · Proposed by Mayor Siddiqui, Vice Mayor Azeem, and Councillor McGovern: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Mar 2, 2026 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (Adopted, unanimous)

Voted yes (9), unanimous

  • Ayah Al-Zubi
  • Burhan Azeem
  • Tim Flaherty
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Cathie Zusy
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
Roll call of Mar 2, 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.
The document Agenda item attachment · 2 pages

May 10, 2026, in coordination with the Cambridge Public Health Department’s

awareness efforts; and be it further That the City Clerk be and hereby is requested to forward a suitably engrossed copy of this order to the Cambridge Public Health Department on behalf of the entire City Council. In City Council March 2, 2026. Adopted by a yea and nay vote:- Yeas 9; Nays 0; Absent 0. Attest:- Paula M. Crane, Interim City Clerk A true copy; ATTEST:- Paula M. Crane

Interim City Clerk

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Mar 2, 2026