These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City Calendar and in the city’s Open Meetings Portal.
Upcoming year’s education spend
City Council and School Committee roundtable, 4 p.m. Monday. Members of the council and committee gather to discuss budget planning for the 2028 fiscal year, which begins July 1, amid macroeconomic trends affecting Cambridge. The council meets at City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. Televised and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Evaluating the superintendent
School Committee, 5 p.m. Tuesday. Members discuss and approve goals for superintendent David Murphy as part of an annual evaluation process. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Appealing 106 Ellery approval
Historical Commission, 6 to 10:30 p.m. Thursday. An appeal is heard to a Sept. 8 approval by the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Commission for a detached home to be built behind a three-story, three-family house at 106 Ellery St. The petitioners say a member voted who hadn’t been present to hear the entire case, that it’s problematic that the presenter of the case is a member of the city’s Historical Commission and that the NCD acted outside its authority by considering the project’s size and shape. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Divestment need third meeting
City Council special meeting, 3 p.m. Wednesday. This special meeting with no public comment is called to explore issues around divestment from companies “complicit in the genocide, apartheid and occupation of Palestinians” because a first council meeting last week was filled testimony from 350 public speakers and a second one had a fill agenda of other items to address. The council meets at City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. Televised and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Somerville housing vouchers
Cambridge Housing Authority, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Among agenda items is renewal of a contract to run Somerville’s municipal voucher program, which provides financial help for up to 30 households paying at least half their income for rent and utilities, who are ineligible or poorly served by federal or state housing programs or face eviction or severe overcrowding. In the community room of the Frank J. Manning public housing apartments at 237 Franklin St., Central Square, and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Waste overflows in public waters
Combined Sewer Overflow Control Plan public hearing, 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Comment is asked on a Somerville, Cambridge and Massachusetts Water Resources Authority draft control plan for combined sewer overflows, which are when waste overflows into public waterways – the Alewife Brook, Mystic River and Charles River – as sewer and water systems get overwhelmed by storms. In-person at Somerville City Hall, 93 Highland Ave., Central Hill, and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Central Square as a transit hub
Transit Advisory Committee Public Meeting, 5 p.m. Thursday. The group walks Central Square to assess such things as bus stops, the MBTA red line station there and the River Street reconstruction project, meeting in front of the U.S. Postal Service office at 770 Massachusetts Ave.
