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.
Gathering to end overdoses
International Overdose Awareness Day, from 1:30 to 4 p.m., Thursday. Representatives of the Cambridge Public Health Department, Access Drug User Health Program, the Cambridge Care Team and Cambridge police gather to recognize and remember lives lost to opioid overdoses. The event is hosted at City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. Harm reduction and health promotion materials will be available.
First School Committee meeting
Cambridge School Committee, 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. The body’s first regular meeting of the new school year, just hours after the first day of school, includes a hearing on the Student Rights & Responsibilities Handbook. A full agenda will be posted by 48 hours before the meeting. The committee meets in the Dr. Henrietta S. Attles Meeting Room at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, 459 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge. Watchable online, including by Zoom.
Allocating preservation funds
Community Preservation Act Committee, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. A setting of percentages for funds divided between three categories – affordable housing; open space and recreation; and historic preservation – and for which projects get approved. Every year, this committee votes how to allocate money from the Community Preservation Act, a state law that helps local communities “preserve the character of their community.” Cambridge residents adopted it in 2001, allowing a 3 percent surcharge on property taxes to pay for projects. At least 10 percent of funds must go toward each of the three areas, and the state adds funding too. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Harvard Square hotel project
Cambridge Historical Commission, 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Sept. 4. An application for a certificate of appropriateness for a project returns from an Aug. 14 meeting. Developers plan to move the 1846 Harriet Jacobs house at 17 Story St. in Harvard Square to the corner of Story and Mount Auburn streets and restore it. They hope to put up a building behind of up to 67 hotel rooms and roughly 50 residential units. The plan involves demolishing a neighborhood building at 129 Mount Auburn St. According to the proposal, the historic house will become the hotel lobby and include a small cafe – but the commission voted for a landmarking study of the house that could be an obstacle for the project. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
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