Council demands municipal broadband action while citizens cite ‘disrespect’ by city manager
A never-explained refusal to produce a report on municipal broadband is angering city councillors and residents just as Louis A. DePasquale is asking to renew his contract as city manager.
With $100 software and some time for editing, clerk makes full City Council transcripts a thing
City clerk Anthony Wilson is making a change that’s massive in the somewhat esoteric context of municipal clerking: putting virtually every word a councillor utters on the record, fully accessible and searchable for the first time by anyone with an Internet connection.
Renewal of tree-cutting moratorium is paused to hear testimony about its effect on residents
Limits on chopping down trees on private property need more discussion before a temporary renewal, city councillors decided Monday, calling for data from the city and testimony from residents about the law’s effects over the past several months.
Siddiqui is named mayor, Mallon vice mayor during latest fast election at council inaugural
Elected to the City Council together two years ago and remaining linked in the public’s mind by partnering on hosting the “Women Are Here” podcast, Siddiqui and Mallon rise to the roles of mayor and vice mayor for a term loaded with issues of housing, race and the arts.
McGovern won’t seek reelection as mayor, supports second-term councillor Siddiqui
Mayor Marc McGovern said he is not campaigning for reelection for that role in the coming term, and is instead throwing his support behind councillor Sumbul Siddiqui, who will be entering her second term.
‘Toxic’ offices, ‘inadequate’ grievance process has councillor seeing little change since 2012
Echoes of costly discrimination and retaliation lawsuits from 2012 were heard Monday by the City Council, whose E. Denise Simmons said she’d been contacted by municipal workers who feel trapped in a system with a “woefully inadequate” process for handling grievances.
Special hearing on garage is slated for Sept. 18, potentially deciding fate of courthouse project
A continuation of a hearing on whether to grant city parking and retail space to a potential redevelopment of East Cambridge’s former courthouse has been scheduled for Sept. 18.
Five hours of courthouse comments, debate don’t resolve issue; council goes into recess (corrected)
Discussion of whether to grant city parking and retail space to a potential redevelopment of East Cambridge’s former courthouse was referred by the City Council to a future meeting, but it’s not clear when that meeting will be.
Sole summer meeting of the City Council delayed by giant, 1,000-plus page agenda
The City’s Council’s summer meeting is being bumped by a day, to Tuesday, because the agenda didn’t post in time to comply with state Open Meeting Law.
New city clerk: Springfield’s Anthony Wilson, selected by councillors from final field of four
Anthony Ivan Wilson was selected to be Cambridge’s new City Clerk on Monday by the City Council, in a whirlwind public phase of a months-long process to replace Donna Lopez, who retired as city clerk last month (she has stuck around for the transition).
