City Council Meeting – Feb 3rd, 2025

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Meeting Link

City Manager’s Agenda

Surveillance Technology Impact Report (STIR)

  • #1 (CMA 2025 #9) Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) System, requested by the Cambridge Police Department
  • #2 (CMA 2025 #10) Locked Cellular Device Access Software, requested by the Cambridge Police Department
  • #3 (CMA 2025 #11) Remotely Piloted Aerial Vehicle (RPA) technology, requested by the Cambridge Police Department

Reports and Communications

  • #4 (CMA 2025 #22) Naming of new private way to South William Way

Responses to Council Requests

  • #5 (CMA 2025 #23) Regarding asbestos concerns with the MBTA’s Alewife construction

Appropriations and Grants

  • #6 (CMA 2025 #24) $65,000 grant from the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism to, “support activities focused on the themes of revolution and independence, celebrating the significant historical milestones that have taken place in Cambridge.”

Appointments

  • #7 (CMA 2025 #25) Broadway Street Safety Improvement Project Working Group – Amanda Leifer, Ben Compaine, Christopher Cassel, David Lyon, Diana Yousef, Dien Ho, Erich Trieschman, John White, Kenneth Carlson, Nate Sharpe, Phoebe Heyman, Rhonda Greene, Tuongvi Nguyen

Policy Orders

  • #1 (POR 2025 #9) That the Council meeting scheduled for February 24th shall be a Joint
    Roundtable with the School Committee to discuss fiscal year 2026 public schools budget priorities
  • #2 (POR 2025 #10) That the city manager look into leveraging [legislation M.G.L. Ch. 40U](legislation M.G.L. Ch. 40U) to ease the collection of fines for various violations such as snow removal and sanitation codes

Charter Rights

  • #1 (POR 2025 #6) Requests that the city to install “Bicycles Must Yield” signs in Linear Park Parkway, Russell Field, Cambridge
  • #2 (POR 2025 #8) An amendment to the MFH Petition regarding the Planning Board

Applications and Petitions

  • #1 (APP 2025 #6) Projecting blade sign – Mehmet Sahin representing The Attic – 1218 Massachusetts Avenue

All comments are from members of our comment team.

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