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.
Civil rights group to meet
Human Rights Commission 6:00 PM Jan. 15. The Commission, founded in 1984, is responsible for investigating discrimination complaints, enforcing the Cambridge Human Rights Ordinance and Cambridge Fair Housing Ordinance. The meeting will include remarks from Cambridge Chief of Equity and Inclusion Deidre Travis Brown. Her department recently came under fire for abruptly laying off several staffers, including two from the Human Rights Commission. The meeting will be held over Zoom.
Celebrate MLK Jr’s legacy
City of Cambridge Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Commemoration 11:00 AM Jan. 19th. This annual event is organized by the Cambridge Peace Commission; its theme this year is “Community Begins With Us.” The program will include a performance by the Boston-based Millennium Gospel Choir, which has been performing since 2000. The Keynote will be delivered by Roeshana Moore-Evans, the founder and principal of the consulting firm Equity Empowerment, who previously served as the executive director of Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery initiative. The program will be held at the St. Paul AME Church, 37 Bishop Allen Drive. The program will also stream over Zoom.
School district dissects student data
School Committee Regular Meeting 6:00 PM Jan. 20th. The school committee will continue its presentations on student achievement data, focusing on findings from the Science and Social Studies sections of the most recent MCAS. The Cambridge Public School district’s chief financial officer will also discuss factors that may affect Fiscal Year 2027’s budget. The meeting will be held at the Henrietta S. Attles Meeting Room, 459 Broadway, and will also be streamed via Zoom.
Learn about various safety improvement projects
Joint Meeting of the Transportation Committees 5:30 PM, Jan. 21. The City’s Bicycle, Pedestrian, and Transit Advisory Committees will jointly meet. The draft agenda says the group will discuss drafting a letter to the state department of transportation about the William Reid Overpass project. Also on the agenda are presentations of the concept plans for the Quincy-Western Kirkland Safety Improvement project and the Outer Huron Safety Improvement project. The meeting will be held at 344 Broadway (City Hall Annex) 4th Floor Conference Room and can also be attended via Zoom.
Affordable housing open house
Affordable Housing Information Session 12:00 PM, Jan. 22nd. The Cambridge Housing Department will hold a virtual information session about the city’s Affordable Rental and Home Ownership Programs, which are currently accepting applications. Information about rental programs will be presented from 12:00-1:00, and ownership programs will be presented from 1:00-2:00.
Eleven stories on Mass. Ave.
City Council, 5:30 p.m. Monday. A policy order amending a North Massachusetts Avenue zoning proposal that would cap residential buildings at 11 stories instead of 12 returns from last week, when discussion was stopped for one regular meeting by councillor Sumbul Siddiqui using her “charter right.” The author of the order, Patty Nolan, says her change will allow for construction of more homes in mixed-rate towers while letting builders of all-affordable towers keep their height advantage – they can go to 13 stories – and respect a community process that suggested shorter heights. A similar change for Inman Square passed last week in a 7-1 vote. The council meets at City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. Televised, online and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
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