2026-11-09 - City Council Regular Meeting

Summary

• Five appropriation requests: CMA 2026-308 ($4,800 CDBG), -309 ($1,452,018.24 MAPC Community Connections grant), -310 ($1,020,287 FY27 HEAP), -311 ($52,650 Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services) and -312 ($48,000 Friends of the Community Learning Center).
• CMA 2026-316: informational update on Emergency Management efforts (not an emergency declaration).
• POR 2026-208 sends a condo-conversion tenant protection ordinance to the Ordinance Committee; see Condominium Conversion Tenant Protection Ordinance.
• CC 2026-101: report on the Oct 22 hearing on Autonomous Vehicles and Robotaxis.
• Other orders: POR 2026-209 (cancel the Jan 4, 2027 meeting), POR 2026-211 (home rule petition on anticoagulant rodenticides, see Anticoagulant Rodenticide Home Rule Petition), POR 2026-214 (pet shop ordinance amendment) and RES 2026-156 to 158.
• Councillor Zusy exercised the charter right on POR 2026-206.

Built from the posted agenda only; outcomes and final actions are not yet posted, and no minutes are recorded.

Agenda

• Appropriations: CMA 2026-308 to 2026-312 (above).
• CMA 2026-316: Emergency Management update (informational).
• POR 2026-206 (charter right exercised), 2026-208, 2026-209, 2026-211, 2026-214.
• CC 2026-101: Oct 22 hearing on autonomous vehicles and robo-taxis.
• RES 2026-156 to 158.

Sources

• Agenda: https://cambridgema.primegov.com/Portal/Meeting?meetingTemplateId=13893
• Packet: https://cambridgema.primegov.com/Portal/Meeting?meetingTemplateId=13895
• Video: https://cambridgema.v3.swagit.com/events/49736