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Meeting Name: Legislative Matters Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 5/13/2014 6:30 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Committee Room – 2nd Floor – City Hall
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196644 4196644OrderThat the City Solicitor provide the Committee on Legislative Matters with an analysis of the Law Department’s support to charge for review and redaction of requested information.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
196645 4196645OrderThat the City Solicitor provide the Committee on Legislative Matters with the good faith estimate of number of hours and the hourly rates charged for every information request this year, to date.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
196646 4196646OrderThat the City Solicitor report to the Committee on Legislative Matters on the Board's ability to create guidelines for public information requests.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
196780 4196780OrderThat the City Solicitor advise this Board of the city's ability to control the dissemination of advertisements from "Globe Direct", and inquire why individual requests to stop unsolicited deliveries are not followed.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
196781 4196781ResolutionThat the Licensing Commission reconsider the regulation for liquor establishments to leave doors open between 8 AM and 9 PM, Monday through Friday, in areas that aren't central business districts, and convey to this Board how this regulation may be altered.Work completed  Action details Not available
196357 4196357OrdinanceThat the city's Human Rights Policy at Ordinance 2-237 be amended by adding the words "gender identity and expression," to protect transgender individuals from discrimination.Approved  Action details Not available
196362 5196362OrderThat the City Solicitor appear before this Board to describe the process for responding to requests for public records, including fees and redactions, and how this comports with the requirements of state law, the Secretary of State's Public Records Division, and the practices of other communities.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
195725 6195725OrderThat the City Solicitor provide this Board’s Committee on Legislative Matters with input on restricting formula businesses in Somerville by requiring specific review and oversight before they may enter central business districts.Kept in committee  Action details Not available