Asked the City Manager to report back to the City Council on the projected fiscal impact of maintaining the current exemption for seniors, along with any administrative steps necessary to do so

How it started

Apr 30, 2026 · Proposed by Councillors Simmons and Zusy: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

May 18, 2026 · ✅ Order adopted as amended, 7–2: first paused by a charter right, then adopted the following week; the request went to the City Manager. (Adopted as amended by substitution)

Voted yes (7)

Ayah Al-Zubi
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
E. Denise Simmons
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Cathie Zusy
Sumbul Siddiqui

Voted no (2)

Burhan Azeem
Tim Flaherty

Roll call of May 18, 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 upApr 30, 2026

Held on a charter rightSobrinho-WheelerMay 11, 2026

Adopted as amended by substitution, 7-2-0May 18, 2026

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

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ORDERED: That the City Manager work with relative city departments to amend the existing plan to increase the residential parking sticker fee, to include a self-disclosed, check off box for anyone of any age for whom this fee is a hardship, to receive their sticker for free; and be it further ORDERED That the City Manager be and hereby requested to conduct a one-year review on how many apply for the hardship exemption and the impact on City finances. In City Council May 18, 2026.

Adopted as Amended by Substitution

by a yea and nay vote:-

Yeas 7; Nays 2; 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: May 11, 2026