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.
Thanksgiving donation drive
Canned food donation drive, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday. Continuing through Friday, the CambridgeSide mall and Salvation Army gather canned food items for Thanksgiving baskets for families in need. Suggested items include baking mixes, canned vegetables, stuffing mix, potato mix, pie filling and crust mix, cranberry sauce, gravy, pie and roasting pans, baby food and freezer bags. At the CambridgeSide Welcome Center, Level 1, 100 CambridgeSide Place, East Cambridge.
District’s least-chosen schools
School Committee Building & Grounds Subcommittee, 5:30 p.m. Thursday. This hearing chaired by José Luis Rojas Villarreal reviews class start times and transportation logistics and looks at school-choice lottery and transfer data to identify underchosen schools. There will also be updates on improvements at 158 Spring St., East Cambridge, a district building that closed in June as the Kennedy-Longfellow School after 51 years and is expected to reopen next year for a different purpose. Watchable online and by Zoom videoconferencing.
Updating the urban forest plan
Public Works public meeting, 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday. A Urban Forest Master Plan enacted in 2019 – meant in part to grow the city’s tree canopy and cool residents as climate change heats things up – set a goal for 30 percent of the city to be shaded by trees. Officials say the milestone was reached last year and invites residents “to learn how the city turned things around” from a dramatic loss of canopy, as well as share their experiences and set new priorities. In the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School cafeteria, 459 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge.
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I am very interested in how they will spin things at the Public Works meeting and how they are counting canopy added… a bunch of saplings added when more mature trees were lost at various sites around the city should not count as expanding the canopy. Especially when a high number of said saplings planted died during the droughts we have had.