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.
Setting preservation grants
Community Preservation Act Committee, 5:30 p.m. Monday. The process of annual allocations begins for grants benefiting open space, historical sites and affordable housing, including setting percentages for each bucket (10 percent in each is a minimum, but traditionally affordable housing gets 80 percent of the available money). Members also look at the projects seeking money this year. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Protect; smart glasses; and K-Lo
School Committee, 6 p.m. Tuesday. Members take up Protect Act provisions meant to keep anti-immigration issues out of schools and a prohibition on the use of smart glasses on district property. (There would be exceptions for documented medical needs or disabilities or with permission from superintendent David Murphy or someone appointed by Murphy to grant permission). Murphy and the chief academic officer have an update on some other uses of technology, and Murphy presents on the opening of the school year Thursday and the future of 158 Spring St., which was once the Kennedy-Longfellow School. The 220-student school serving prekindergarteners through fifth graders was closed at the end of 2025 to resolve a problem bringing together a disproportionate number of high-needs students that led to low test scores. The committee meets in the Dr. Henrietta S. Attles Meeting Room at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, 459 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge. Televised and watchable online and by Zoom videoconferencing.
Restaurant rules and regulations
License Commission, 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesday. Board members consider feedback on proposed updates to restaurant rules and regulations after a decade. These changes are likely more benign than some seen on a version released in the spring, which addressed concerns about overconsumption in ways that shocked business owners, customers and city officials. The commission retreated from some universally disliked ideas on limiting how much patrons can drink, including an idea to allow only one drink every half-hour. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Transit in Healthpeak project
Transit Advisory Committee, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Members brainstorm ideas on an implementation plan for transit improvements and vote whether to weigh in by letter on the application coming to the Planning Board from the life sciences developer Healthpeak. It foresees turning a largely industrial Alewife Quadrangle area in the Cambridge Highlands into a new neighborhood of 20 buildings, including 2,076 homes in buildings of up to 12 stories, retail and a pedestrian and bike bridge over rail tracks that brings residents near the Alewife red line T stop. Many want a commuter rail stop nearby too. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
