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RES 2016-371

City Council go on record congratulating Green Cambridge for a successful Climate Congress

How it started
Nov 21, 2016 · Offered by Vice Mayor Devereux and Councillor Simmons.
What happened
Nov 21, 2016 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Jan Devereux; carried on a voice vote.
the aforementioned order by adding the words “in partnership with MOTHERS OUTFRONT and the South Asian Center” after the word “Hall” in the first paragraph and the words “and its partners” in the sixth paragraph after the “Cambridge.”
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Nov 21, 2016, p. 28.
Nov 21, 2016 · 🎉 Adopted as amended: the Council approved it. (Order adopted as amended)
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Present and voting at this meeting (9)

  • Craig A. Kelley
  • David Maher
  • Dennis Carlone
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Jan Devereux
  • Leland Cheung
  • Marc McGovern
  • Nadeem Mazen
  • Timothy J. Toomey
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
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On Saturday, November 12, 2016, delegates met at Cambridge City Hall to adopt a final statement on climate citizenship, which reads: “We can act now to protect ourselves, future generations, and life on earth from the conditions of a changing climate. We believe it is our responsibility to act now to adapt our way of living, conserve natural resources and systems, and restore the natural cycles on which life on earth depends.

We do this as free citizens of a universal community of mutual responsibility, committed to caring for one another. We pledge to act on and communicate this commitment and to engage members of our communities in Cambridge and beyond. Our response is a necessary part of the national and global response, freely offered with a commitment to justice for all in a common struggle”; and

The Climate Congress provided the delegates and the broader community a chance to consider strategies on how to be effective and progressive climate citizens, understanding that all people come to the issue with a different background but have the power to make a difference in their own lives—a tradition of diversity and service in keeping with Cambridge’s values; now therefore be it

RESOLVED: That the City Council go on record congratulating Green Cambridge for a successful Climate Congress; and be it further

RESOLVED: That the City Clerk be and hereby is requested to forward a suitably engrossed copy of this resolution to Green Cambridge on behalf of the entire City Council.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Nov 21, 2016