These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City of Somerville website. The meetings below reflect information available on the weekend before posting and may be updated. 

Details of merged school campus 

School Committee special meeting, 7 p.m. Monday. Members discuss space and educational needs to present to the Massachusetts School Building Authority, which will decide funding for a merged Winter Hill-Brown school to replace the city’s two oldest schools – one closed because of safety concerns – that could open in 2031. We wrote about the project here. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.

Proposed tower presentation

Copper Mill project neighborhood meeting, 7 p.m. Tuesday. A developer proposing a tower with apartments in Davis Square – described in a state filing as a 26-story, 502-unit building at Elm and Grove streets – answers community questions in-person at the Somerville Theatre’s Crystal Ballroom, 55 Davis Square (a mandatory sign-up form for in-person attendance cuts off four hours before the meeting) and by Zoom videoconferencing.

Library behavior and planning

Board of Library Trustees, 6 p.m. Wednesday. There’s a strategic planning update and a report on standards of library behavior, as well as updates from the new administration and on Union Square development. In-person at the Somerville Public Library, 79 Highland Ave., Central Hill.

YMCA on Highland Avenue

YMCA project neighborhood meeting, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. A development team presents revised plans to build a YMCA – replacing a 120-year-old facility – and around 60 affordable homes near Central Hill at 97-107 Highland Ave. and 136 School St. The $175 million project is now expected to wrap around a corner house whose owners have chosen not to sell. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.

Transition for Arts Council

Arts Council Board meeting, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday. At the first meeting since the departure of longtime executive director Greg Jenkins, the board talks about a leadership transition and hears a summary from a Wednesday meeting about regional arts retention efforts (we wrote about it here). There will be updates on the upcoming Artbeat and Porchfest events and on plans for the Armory community building. In-person at City Hall Annex, 50 Evergreen Ave., Winter Hill.

Elm-Beacon Connector project

Traffic Commission, 5 p.m. Thursday. The agenda includes discussion of design and community engagement work for the Elm-Beacon Connector project, which is meant to make walkers and bicyclists safer by retrofitting parts of Elm Street and Somerville Avenue with “quick-build” safety measures such as bike lanes, signs and pavement markings. Mossland Street, between Elm and the avenue, will become a neighborway, decreasing and slowing car traffic by installing speed humps and two-way bike traffic lanes, narrowing entrances and planting trees. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.