City Council - City Clerk Preliminary Screening Committee

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Meeting Title: City Council - City Clerk Preliminary Screening Committee
City: Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 2025-09-19

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Denise Simmons	Good morning. I'm calling today's meeting to order. This is the city clerk's preliminary screening committee. 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 would have a detrimental effect on obtaining qualified applicants. The committee will adjourn in executive session and not return to open session. There will 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 2 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. Our first order of business is to call a roll of the members present. Madam Assistant. Yes. Yes, I have present. Present.
SPEAKER_01	Raisha Catchings. Absent. Vice Mayor McGovern? Present. Present. Matt Nelson? Absent. Melissa Peters? Present. Present. Councilor Sobrinho-Wheeler? Present. Present. Mayor Simmons? Present. Present. That's five members present, two recorded as absent. Thank you.
Denise Simmons	A quorum of the members of the committee being present, I will now 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 is absent. Vice Mayor McGovern? Yes. Yes. Matt Nelson is absent. Melissa Peters?
Denise Simmons	Yes.
SPEAKER_01	Yes. Councilor Sabina Wheeler? Yes. Yes. Mayor Simmons? Yes. Yes. That's five members voting yes.
Denise Simmons	On a majority vote of five members, we will now go into executive session. I just will repeat for the record, we will be adjourning in executive session. This portion of the meeting is closed.