City Council - City Clerk Preliminary Screening Committee

September 24, 2025

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Time / Speaker	Text
Denise Simmons	Good, how are you?
SPEAKER_01	Or for quorum.
Denise Simmons	procedural Good morning, everyone. I'm going to call today City Clerk's Preliminary Screening Committee to order. The purpose of this meeting is to review and interview applicants for the position of City Clerk. The committee will be going into executive session because doing so in open session, conducting these interviews, will have a detrimental effect on obtaining qualified applicants. The committee will adjourn in executive session and will not return to open session. Please be advised that there'll be no public comment today. Members of the public are welcome to submit written communications to the city clerk's office at cityclerk at cambridgema.gov. Pursuant to chapter two of the Acts of 2025, adopted by the Massachusetts General Court and approved by the governor, the city is authorized to use remote participation at meetings of the Cambridge City Council and its committees. The first order of business will be to call the role of the members present.
SPEAKER_01	Megan Behr. Absent. Raisha Catchings.
Denise Simmons	Present.
SPEAKER_01	Present. Vice Mayor McGovern. Present. Present. Matt Nelson. Present. Present. Melissa Peters.
Denise Simmons	Present.
SPEAKER_01	Present. Councilor Sobrinho-Wheeler. Absent. Mayor Simmons.
Denise Simmons	Present.
SPEAKER_01	Present. That's five members recorded as present, two recorded as absent.
Denise Simmons	procedural Thank you. A quorum being present and affirmed, I will entertain a motion to go into executive session. On a motion by the Vice Mayor to go into Executive Session, please call the roll.
SPEAKER_01	Megan Bear. Yes. Yes, Raisha Catchings. Yes. Yes, Vice Mayor McGovern. Yes. Yes, Matt Nelson. Yes. Yes, Melissa Peters.
Denise Simmons	Yes.
SPEAKER_01	Yes, Councilor Sobrinho-Wheeler. Absent, Mayor Simmons. Yes. Yes, that's six members voting yes.
Denise Simmons	procedural And the move, the motion to go into Executive Session passes on the affirmative vote. of seven members, one being recorded as absent. We will now go into executive session. We will not be coming back to general session to adjourn. We will be adjourning in executive session. With that, we will close this part of the meeting and move into executive session.

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