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2026-10-28 - City Council Special Meeting

Summary

  • Special meeting with no public comment (set by policy order 2026-203). The council acted on the three orders carried over from Oct 20.
  • POR 2026-195 (divest city funds from companies named in the divestment orders): adopted as amended by substitution, as amended, 5-4-0. Yeas: Al-Zubi, Azeem, McGovern, Sobrinho-Wheeler, Siddiqui. Nays: Flaherty, Nolan, Simmons, Zusy.
  • POR 2026-196 (City Solicitor opinion on the proposed boycott ordinance): adoption failed 4-5-0. See Israel-Related Divestment Policy Orders.
  • POR 2026-189 (reconsider the Harvard Square kiosk operating and stewardship model): tabled 8-0-1, with Simmons absent. See Harvard Square Kiosk Overhaul.

Built from the posted agenda and final actions; the recording is listed but no transcript or minutes have been processed. Vote tallies are from the final actions; the text of the amendments was not read.

Agenda

Sullivan Chamber, Cambridge City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave. 3:00-5:00pm. No public comment.

  1. POR 2026-195 (Al-Zubi and Sobrinho-Wheeler): divestment from companies complicit in genocide, apartheid or occupation of Palestinians. Adopted as amended, 5-4-0. See Israel-Related Divestment Policy Orders.
  2. POR 2026-196 (same sponsors): City Solicitor opinion under M.G.L. c. 30B and federal law for the Ordinance Committee on the proposed boycott ordinance. Adoption failed, 4-5-0.
  3. POR 2026-189: reconsider the Harvard Square kiosk model. Tabled, 8-0-1. See Harvard Square Kiosk Overhaul.

Video

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