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.
Park renovations explored
Rafferty Park virtual open house, noon to 1 p.m. Thursday. The city is renovating Rafferty Park, 68 Griswold St., Cambridge Highlands, behind the Sancta Maria nursing home at 799 Concord Ave., and will show and talk about the plans at noon on Zoom (get in using the password “Rafferty”).
Filling a City Council vacancy
Election Commission, 5 p.m. Thursday. The commission will rerun numbers from the Nov. 7 municipal election to determine officially who will replace city councillor Joan Pickett, who died Aug. 30. A rerun of the November election in January done with the same software that the city uses showed Cathie Zusy taking the seat. At City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge.
Free document shredding hours
Cambridge Consumers’ Council, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. It’s first-come, first-served at a mobile shredding truck that will accept documents to recycle until it’s at capacity, with a limit of five paper-size boxes per household or the equivalent. Parking reserved for this event is on Bigelow Street next to City Hall; the shredder truck will be across the street at the Citywide Senior Center, 806 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square, Cambridge.
Meet Rafferty Park artist
Rafferty Park artist meeting, 3 to 6 p.m. Monday. The city is renovating Rafferty Park, 68 Griswold St., Cambridge Highlands, behind the Sancta Maria nursing home at 799 Concord Ave. In an event rescheduled from Thursday due to expected rain, nature-inspired sculptor Thomas Berger of Kittery, Maine, will be on hand to talk about his plans for the park’s public art.
Harvard Square plaza updates
Harvard Square plaza reconstruction project coffee talk session, 9 to 10 a.m. Wednesday. Residents, business owners and employees can talk with city staff and contractors about the plaza reconstruction project; coffee talk updates are promised regularly on the second floor (upstairs from Pavement Coffee) of the Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Harvard Square, Cambridge.
Seniors’ perspectives are wanted
Senior town hall, noon Wednesday. Public input is welcome after brief remarks by city leaders on topics such as affordable housing, public safety, public works and aging in place in an event held by Mayor E. Denise Simmons, City Manager Yi-An Huang and the Council on Aging. “Share your thoughts, questions and concerns directly,” a flyer says. “This meeting is designed to empower the senior community and ensure their voices are heard in shaping the policies and services that affect their lives,” though all are invited. Light refreshments will be served at the event at the Citywide Senior Center, 806 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square, Cambridge.
Envisioning Mass. Ave. of 2040
Massachusetts Avenue Planning Study community meeting, 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 26. The group held a process already looking at a segment of the avenue from Porter Square south to Cambridge Common; now it turns its attention to North Massachusetts Avenue, from Porter Square to Alewife Brook Parkway. This the first of three community meetings toward creating a vision for what the avenue will look like in 2040. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
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