These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City of Somerville website.
State of the city address
Mayor’s Office, 5:30 p.m. Monday. Mayor Katjana Ballantyne delivers a mid-second-term speech covering progress on city initiatives since she took office. (Her first term began in 2022.) She is joined by incoming City Council president Judy Pineda-Neufeld and the chair of Somerville’s School Committee. At Somerville City Hall, 93 Highland Ave., Central Hill, and watchable via videoconferencing.
YMCA on Highland Avenue
Planning, Preservation and Zoning, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday. Representatives from the YMCA host a neighborhood meeting to present construction plans. The proposal includes an expansion of facilities at 101 Highland Ave., Winter Hill, by replacing a trio of surrounding houses; and a “100 percent affordable” residential building atop an abutting parking lot. Watchable via videoconferencing.
Ongoing climate initiatives
Commission on Energy Use and Climate Change, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Members of the commission, including a newly appointed energy adviser, discuss ongoing and future projects, including school decarbonization and new alternative home heating systems. The commission will also discuss a proposed ordinance to disclose more utilities costs to the public and a recently passed state bill that advances permitting of clean energy sites. Watchable via videoconferencing.
Alternative home heating
Office of Sustainability and Environment, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Residents are invited to learn more about an evolving home heating technology known as geothermal networking that connects homes through pumps to regulate temperatures by capitalizing on the regularity of underground temperatures. Designed to replace traditional heating solutions, geothermal networking is, according to a previous information session, more than three times as efficient as electric heating. Watchable via videoconferencing.
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