These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City of Somerville website.
Maintaining the public schools
School Committee Facilities and Maintenance Subcommittee, 6 p.m. Monday. A group led by Leiran Biton and Laura Pitone examines custodial staffing at each public school and maintenance issues in the East Somerville, Capuano and Edgerly schools, as well as whether hot water has been restored to all parts of the Capuano Early Education Center. If not, members want a timeline for full restoration. They also ask for updates on the Massachusetts School Building Authority process for construction for the Winter Hill and Brown schools and get one on Kennedy schoolyard renovations. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Budget priorities of councilors
City Council Finance Committee, 6 p.m. Tuesday. This committee run by city councilor Ben Wheeler sees priorities and requests conveyed for the 2027 fiscal year budget by councilors Jesse Clingan (more funding to repave streets); Lance Davis (several items relating to Davis Square, including completion of a neighborhood plan, more days in which it is closed to traffic, more cleaning); Ben Ewen-Campen (money for housing stability, Gilman Square activation= and more); Emily Hardt (municipal housing vouchers, engineering of safer streets, opening the high school for community use when school is out and more); Will Mbah (full funding for elementary school construction and renovation); Jon Link (a civilian oversight committee for police, senior services such as transportation, senior center programming and in-home support, and more); Naima Sait (funding for the Office of Immigrant affairs, flexible rental assistance and legal assistance, unarmed emergency response, a swing space plan for Somerville Public Schools, Community Path safety improvements, food waste collection and more); and Kristen Strezo (teen center funding, work pods inside City Hall, rat control and more). Wheeler adds a call for staffing for kids’ afters-and before-school programming and other community needs. The council meets at 93 Highland Ave., Winter Hill, Somerville. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Mystic River sewage issues
Mystic River outfall and sewer separation project, 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Updates on flood relief and water-quality improvement efforts for Winter Hill, Ten Hills and the surrounding neighborhood from a Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Office team. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Historic home, playground fixes
Community Preservation Committee, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. Members consider adjustments to recommendations for the Adams-Magoun House, 438 Broadway, Winter Hill, the oldest substantially unaltered house in Somerville, and at the John F. Kennedy School at 5 Cherry St. in Spring Hill near Porter Square, where the play area for grades 3-8 has been compared by parents with a prison yard. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Rent policy at affordable units
Somerville Housing Authority, 5 p.m. Thursday. Presentation of a proposed rent collection policy – for a 45-day public review and comment period ended more than a week ago – that the authority incorrectly says is online for review. At the Mystic Learning Center, 530 Mystic Ave.
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