Sounds like we're now up to 61 speakers on the list, limited to 2 minutes each, and we lead off with support for the negotiated "Welcoming Communities" ordinance about limiting/bounding the interactions between ICE and the Cambridge Police.
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Also, MM is here.
aug 4, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
PT is also present in City Hall.
aug 4, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Looks like the difficult, lasting issue of the night is going to be the "compromise" over the community benefits ordinance and the Biomed East Cambridge zoning petition. Also some weird stuff about conflicts w/ the St. James church and its neighbors over unhoused people sleeping on their porch(es).
aug 4, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, I should have mentioned, there's a Manager's Supplemental on the Biomed/East Cambridge/CBAC agreement: cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/Det...
aug 4, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
public comment: "Our final speaker is Dennis Carlone."
aug 4, 2025, 11:43 pm • 0 0 • view
CZ proposed this amendment to the 7/21 minutes but EDS objected because it makes it sound like she was "blocked" from joining the meeting — but…that's exactly the point, as I understood it. Ah well, *sigh*.
aug 4, 2025, 11:49 pm • 0 0 • view
As to #1, the litigation update, PN is asking about the post- Trump v. CASA SCOTUS limits on injunctive relief to non-parties where the City of Cambridge is not a party to the case.
aug 4, 2025, 11:57 pm • 1 0 • view
We've made it on to #4, appointments to the Commercial Parking Control Committee, which includes a brief diversion of inquiries from CZ about membership in A Better Cambridge and Cambridge Bike Safety, with various degrees of pushback from MM and BZ about the appropriateness of that.
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#5 EDS: "If members want to start gambling, we can start contributing to this fund in a more aggressive way."
aug 5, 2025, 12:32 am • 0 0 • view
Doesn't he have to be there?
aug 4, 2025, 9:39 pm • 0 0 • view
No. And councillors are often pulled away into conversations with constituents and others at the beginning of (or during) the meeting. And sometimes members are traveling or otherwise absent, or remote, or unexplained.
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