In this term, Rule 19 was changed to allow charter-right items to be raised at the next special meeting, not just the next regular meeting. (I guess technically the Aug. 3 summer meeting is indeed a "special meeting," so that change was prescient. Although it also means it could be next week.)

MB says there are options. A new STIR or a "renewal" of the prior vote to stop using the technology. She notes reconsideration required notice within 36 hours. She says Robert's Rules of Order allows "renewal" of a vote. She's going to read from Robert's Rules.

MM notes that the PO asks to restore ShotSpotter only until such time as a robust process is completed, and also points out the 90 days.

SS is now up. She asks what it looks like for CSD to "revise the RFP process" as was mentioned in an earlier written report. Marie Mathieu (CSD) says the purchasing process is often difficult for small organizations, and they are working to, effectively [cut red tape] in how they distribute fundng

Responding is Michelle Farnum, Assistant Director for DHSP. She notes it depends on how you define adult (18? 21?) and starts to talk about work-based learning, college, education. We didnt't get much past there.

EDS: This is not my first meeting like this. I've been here for 40 years. We've done it a lot. There's a rush to get everything done, and then we forget about it. We walk away, we find other things to do, good things, you know: tree planting, bike lanes, but we walk away from the issue.

Crying as she gets cut off by the mayor, AAZ asks if we really think $300,000 for five groups is going to do the work to reduce gun violence?

AAZ begins quoting from the community meeting: death is the only thing we're guarnteed in life. But ther eneeds to be mercy and dignity in death. She's talking about the $50M CPD budget versus the $2.7M in CSD (Community Safety). "I don't think that's dignified spending."

JSW suspends the rules to bring forward Policy Order #2. Vote is 9-0. SS describes it as about Community Safety funding…I think that is this one? (which is less focused on _funding_ per se and more on…evaluation?)

TF suggests this is a "wave" of gun violence following the 2006 death of his client, Corey Davis: "he set off a wave of violence between The Port and North Cambridge. And this is an ongoing feud, a gun battle, from Port 44 to the Mystic Projects, and it continues."

Police Commissioner Pauline Wells (PW) talks about officers building a rapport with community members.

CZ directs her questions to the CPD, asking what the most important interventions are and what alternative technologies might be.

PN asks about violence prevention, both quantitatively as well as how Cambridge is pulling in lessons from other communities.

Dance: That's our job to find out. We don't know that those programs are not being effective. That's part of the research I'll be doing over the summer. My role is to connect the dots, to be a connector.

MM kicks it off, noting Dance is a "Cambridge Kid." MM: We have all these interventions, some for a long time, but we continue to have young people slip through the cracks. Why do you think that is? There's not a shortage of programs.

Dance is outlining all the things that have happened, starting with an initial meeting on July 5 (day after the shooting) for inter-departmental coordination.

To clarify, the City Manager is definitely here. We saw the back of his head briefly on camera — oh, here he is. S. Kwame Dance is the City's new "Assistant Director for Violence Prevention + Community Safety." bsky.app/profile/john...

The Mayor says the meeting will run under Rule 23(f) with five minute rounds per Councillor and a 2-question limit. With a difference, Councillors are to ask their 2nd question by the 5-minute mark and staff will have time to respond "within reason." Her COS is running the timer again.

Not odd per se but somewhat unusually, there are 2 squad cars parked across the street from City Hall and three cops are, err, guarding a fire hydrant.

Also oddly the Deputy City Manager (center) and her chief of staff (right) are in the front row but the Manager is not [yet?] present.

Looks like BA has a late order proposing cameras in public parks from 8pm-8am. [ Someone mentioned it so I ran over to grab it. ]

Coming up at 5:30pm, a special #cambma City Council meeting in light of the shooting death of Xavier Bautista on July 4. There's public comment and a discussion of technology (i.e. ShotSpotter).

You may find cityofcambridge.shinyapps.io/CambridgePer... helpful. Tree removal allowed July 7 for:: Dead or Dangerous: Dangerous Reason: Tree can no longer be maintained. Reason Description: There is significant decay in the main union of a codominant stemmed tree. [ not sure about the "Mc." ]

And by vote of 7-2, the #cambma City Council votes a Negative Recommendation on the Brown Petition, but some of those votes would likely support some pieces if they didn't affect affordable development. BA's motion. AAZ y BA y TF n MM y PN y EDS y JSW y CZ n SS y bsky.app/profile/john...

From SpAnna to Moanna (Moana, now playing). Try the Oscar Rules. I get bent out of shape when people refer to the standard Awards of Merit (Performance by actor in a leading role, &c.) as "Best" (e.g. Best Actor) when they are not. Only Bests are for films.

Looks like the Governor signed #cambma's home rule petition to allow automated parking enforcement. (This does not permit red light cameras, I do not think.) Sometime earlier this month:

By vote of 5-0, the #cambma Planning Board finds the recommendations in the Douglas Brown Petition to be too soon and recommends the City Council not adopt that zoning petition, which would roll back some of the multifamily housing ordinance. (HTC, DM, AT, CZ, TS voting)

This feels uncomfortably like FRAP 2(a).

#cambma City Council has a roundtable meeting today w/ the school committee, no public comment, agenda devoted to "the Cambridge Preschool Program, including means testing & program expansion, as outlined in City Manager’s Agenda Item 2026-92, orig. ref'd to the Human Services & Veterans Committee"

Looks like #cambma issued a statement on today's Supreme Court TPS ruling. www.cambridgema.gov/departments/...