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.
Cambridge Highlands park design
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 “b3412H”).
Council reviews charter review
Special committee of the whole, 1 p.m. Monday. The City Council comes together to review and discuss recommendations from the Charter Review Committee, which looked at where to update an 80-year-old document that says how Cambridge government runs, and any additional suggestions. At City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square and televised and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Assessing work of city manager
Special meeting of the City Council, noon Tuesday. Councillors review City Manager Yi-An Huang’s annual performance review, which he posted Nov. 20 assessing his own work at achieving goals the council set for him April 12. All were met except for one that was “partially met” to “prioritize key initiatives aligned to council goals and provide regular updates” and one that was not met – to establish an American Freedman Commission as a city department in line with a 2023 ordinance. At City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square and televised and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Potential East Cambridge project
BioMed Realty community meeting, 6 p.m. Tuesday. The life-sciences developer active in Kendall Square and Somerville’s Assembly Square explores the possibility of redeveloping 320 Charles St., East Cambridge, described as a two-story lab of 99,513 square feet bought by BioMed in 2013 and since leased to the Broad Institute as a processing facility. Plans for the site – which began as an Anheuser-Busch Co. bottling plant in the 1950s – will be discussed at 157 Sixth St., Kendall Square at a meeting also watchable by Zoom videoconferencing (Meeting ID 812 8777 9458 ; passcode 981988).
Kendall Square plaza and sign
Planning Board, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Members give a design review on a plaza that developer Boston Properties will build over an 11-story-deep power substation, with a lawn and structures meant for celebration, escape and gathering. There’s also a look at a Board of Zoning Appeal case in which the life-sciences company Moderna wants to install an internally illuminated wall sign of its name, which it said will be mostly invisible from the street because of surrounding trees. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Prioritizing public investments
Finance Committee, 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday. This committee run by city councillors Patty Nolan and Paul Toner get an update on and discussion of public investment planning and how it connects with the city’s tightening capital budget. “We will not be able to fund everything we want. We will have to prioritize spending, be judicious in choices on spending and be aware of options to economize,” Nolan said in her Nov. 22 newsletter. The committee meets at City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. Televised and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
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