These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More meetings ahead can be found on the City Calendar and in the city’s Open Meetings Portal.
Pre-K for more 4-year-olds
School Committee, 5 p.m. Tuesday. There is enough capacity in the district and community-based programs to lower the pre-kindergarten age to include every child turning 4 on or before Aug. 31, as opposed to the current March 31 – a move toward long-awaited universal pre-kindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds that’s on this agenda. There’s also an update expected from superintendent Victoria Greer on Covid, the opening of school and transportation issues – and a report expected at least before Oct. 31 on a specific transportation issue: buses to after-school programs, a continuing sore spot since abrupt changes to their operation in 2021. A waiting list of more than 200 families remains just for city-run after-school programs, an order notes. Televised and watchable by Zoom video conferencing.
Hearing fee of $100 is proposed
License Commission, 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Discussion is planned on potentially imposing a $100 fee in any disciplinary matter where the person, business, permittee or licensee cited fails to appear for a hearing – a change slotted under “administrative matters” on the agenda, meaning there’s no public testimony at the meeting and anyone wishing to comment must send written remarks. Among the one-day licenses requested is one from the Cambridge Carnival for Sept. 11, with 35,000 people expected to take part in festivities at University Park. Watchable by Zoom video conferencing.
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Q: How does the fact that the carnival applies for a one day license tie in to the fee change for disciplinary no-shows? A: “This line looks too short, what can I add?”
Sam, if you look at the School Committee item, you’ll see that, like the one you chose to throw stones at, it mentions more than one item on the agenda in the text while putting only one (probably the most eye-catching one) in the headline. That is, in fact, common in the weekly list of city meetings.
Heather is correct. This has been the format for as long as the “meetings ahead” column has been posted.