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.
Net Zero Action Plan report
Health & Environment Committee, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday. This committee run by city councillor Patty Nolan looks at the Net Zero Action Plan annual report, including review of yearly action items, progress made and next steps to reach annual goals. The committee meets at City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. Televised and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Test of “digital navigators”
Transportation and Public Utilities Committee, 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday. This committee run by city councillors Joan Pickett and Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler holds a hearing on the Digital Navigator Pilot Program, which was formed after city research found that as many as 40 percent of low-income residents indicated on surveys that they don’t know how to do such things as banking, getting medical help or buying groceries online. In this plan, paid for in part with federal Covid-relief funds, people would be hired as “digital navigators” and work in a library setting and public schools with navigators for CCTV and Just A Start housing. The committee meets at City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. Televised and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Child care for Cambridgeport
Board of Zoning Appeal, 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. Thursday. There’s a proposal to allow educational and institutional uses on the second story of 90 Hamilton St., Cambridgeport, so it can become Sunshine Child Care, also known as the Harvard Brillante Academy. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Town hall about black business
Cambridge Black Business town hall meeting, 6 to 8 p.m. April 25. A Cambridge Disparity Report released Dec. 21 revealed only $60,000 of $261 million of city contracts over five years went to Black-owned businesses; this discussion gathers entrepreneurs, experts and community leaders to strategize how Black businesses can sustain, grow and thrive. It’s planned for the Community Art Center, 119 Windsor St., The Port, Cambridge. Free, but register.
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