An online information session about the emergency shelter at East Cambridge’s Registry of Deeds Building is planned by state and city officials for 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The Safety Net Family Shelter opened Friday.
A shelter for homeless families will be opened by the state at the Middlesex South Registry of Deeds Building at 208 Cambridge St., East Cambridge, according to a Wednesday press release from Cambridge officials.
The first 20 e-bikes in the Bluebikes rental system are expected to become available at 4 p.m. Wednesday at a Kendall Square valet station, to be joined by 730 more over the next few months. More stations are coming to Cambridge too.
An attempt to toughen rules cutting greenhouse gas emissions from big buildings lost 5-4 before the Cambridge City Council on a day “it’s 60 degrees outside and pouring rain in December,” a backer noted.
A call for Cambridge police reforms such as “eliminating the department’s military weapons arsenal” came before the City Council by coincidence shortly after protesters learned armed officers had been stationed on a rooftop overhead before an expected rally.
Public meetings this week look at evaluating the city manager, police reforms and municipally owned Internet, a review of Cambridge’s governing document, renaming a school and honoring a School Committee member and more.
A period of austerity that’s been warned about for years has arrived, and elected officials have to start setting priorities for what projects get a go-ahead for the next five to 10 years and what must be scaled back or halted.