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.
More charter review by council
City Council, 3 p.m. Thursday. A “special committee of the whole” continues a Jan. 27 hearing to review and discuss recommendations from a Charter Review Committee and additional suggestions from the full council about the city’s charter – the ruling document that gave us a city manager form of government and didn’t get a second look for 80 years. At Cambridge City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. Televised and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
A look at Linear Park changes
Linear Park redesign open house, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday. City staff and a design team show plans so people can learn about the project and ask questions. The park was created in 1985 in North Cambridge between Alewife Station and the Somerville city line; this refresh will widen a paved path to accommodate bicyclist commuters, walkers and other kinds of recreation and add seating, play areas and lighting. At Saint John the Evangelist Church, at 2270 Massachusetts Ave., North Cambridge.
Test an e-bike or e-cargo bike
Try an e-bike, 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday. Try brands and models of e-bikes, including e-cargo bikes, at an event co-hosted with bike shops participating in the Cambridge Bike Lottery program and Community Pedal Power. In the CambridgeSide mall parking garage, Level G1, 100 CambridgeSide Place, East Cambridge (also March 1).
Considering use of police drone
Public Safety Committee, 3 p.m. Feb. 20. (Update on Feb. 19, 2025: This meeting has been postponed to March 3.) This committee run by city councillors Paul Toner and Ayesha Wilson picks up a conversation referred from a Feb. 3 council meeting: whether police should get a drone with high-resolution infrared cameras that can be equipped with a speaker “to give verbal commands.” Potential uses given by police are documenting traffic accident scenes, checking out suspicious packages, searching for missing and lost people and getting aerial photographs and videos of crime scenes to help reconstruct events and gather evidence. Many residents and councillors seemed creeped out by the idea of the devices, especially since their $1,000 to $15,000 cost will likely be paid for by a federal grant. The committee meets at City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. Televised and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
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