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.
Raymond Park changes
Raymond Park pop-up, 8 to 10 a.m. Thursday. The park is being redesigned, and this event allows review of the materials – three design concepts incorporating 19 ideas such as nature play, a looped path around a field and a seating area near a community garden. The event is at Raymond Park, 106 Raymond St., Neighborhood 9, Cambridge.
Multifamily zoning discussed
Ordinance Committee, 3:30 p.m. Thursday. This committee run by vice mayor Marc McGovern and city councillor Paul Toner continues its part of multifamily-zoning discussions before the refined language gets back before the council for a final vote. There will be no public comment at this meeting because it is a continuation of a hearing that began Nov. 19 and reconvened Dec. 4, meaning the public comment portion was held earlier. Two more meetings on the zoning are already scheduled: Jan. 7 and Jan. 16. The committee meets at City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. Televised and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Search for a superintendent
Special meeting of the School Committee, 6 p.m. Thursday. A discussion of the search for a permanent superintendent to replace Victoria Greer, who left at the end of June after being asked to resign by the committee in May. The interim leader is chief operating officer David Murphy, whom the committee has shown confidence in, but a search goes on and a vote on its results must be made before the date of the biennial election of the committee, which falls on Nov. 4. Watchable online, including by Zoom.
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Raymond park is a criminal misuse of public space. It should be immediately be sold to developers and converted into 200 market rate condos with one or two affordable units to solve the critical lack of housing for financial executives who will not be able to put vegan caviar on the table unless they are given a home from which to invest in more unregulated real estate deals.