These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City of Somerville website.
Women’s Commission elections
Women’s Commission, 10:30 a.m. Thursday. The group reviews and elects one or more chairs. Based on meeting minutes from March, it worked to fill at least three open seats to three-year terms this year. Created by city ordinance in 1988, the commission strives to be a “centralizing force” to create a more equal status for women in the city. Watchable via videoconferencing.
Monuments, dedications for vets
Veterans’ Commission on Monuments, Memorials & Dedications, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday. The commission talks about hero square dedications – a program to rename street corners after qualifying living or deceased Somervillian veterans – and other monuments and memorials in the city, such as the Central Hill Memorials project. The city, which broke ground June 12 on phase one of that project, plans to return Vietnam and Korean War memorials to Central Hill this summer after they were moved to Brickbottom on Inner Belt Road during the high school rebuilding project. Fire captain Thomas Gorman called their current condition “disgraceful and an insult to our veterans that served and died for our city and country.” City veterans have advocated for better treatment of the displaced memorials. Watchable via videoconferencing.
Gilman fest and site activation
Gilman Square Neighborhood Council, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday (and the first Monday of every month). Preparations continue for the Sept. 13 Gilman Square Arts & Music Festival, an annual event that began in 2018 as a block party and now features music, arts and community. Also on the agenda is programming at the Homans site, an empty space next to the Magoun Square green line T stop that hosted pop-up events by CultureHouse last year including a beer garden, maker markets and yoga. Watchable via videoconferencing.
Electrical transformer placement
Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m. Wednesday. Brickstone Builders, which owns 379 Somerville Ave. near Union Square, requests hardship variances including relief from a requirement that its new electrical transformer cannot be outside. The owners say that engineers from Eversource told them the transformer could not be installed belowground in a vault as planned because of other belowground utilities, and could not be shared offsite with another project in the area. Watchable via videoconferencing.
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