Under the pressure of a rejected budget item, the city has committed to a long-awaited feasibility study of creating a municipal broadband network to provide residents with cheap, fast Internet access.

A yearslong lack of action on a study of city-owned Internet led to a rare rejection of part of next year’s proposed budget, with city councillors voting 3-6 on Tuesday against funding for the Information Technology department.

Somerville, like Arlington, Boston, Brookline and other cities nationwide plans to restrict vehicle traffic in favor of cyclists and pedestrians on some residential roads. Cambridge remains stuck behind those communities when it comes to pedestrianizing streets.

After the city solicitor doubled down on the legal theory that the City Council can’t ask about the discipline of municipal employees, the council passed its own order expressing “disappointment” in a police superintendent’s tweet that was “unprofessional, disrespectful and vulgar.”

Three city councillors entered their meeting Monday prepared to hear about discipline of a police officer “in executive session if required by state law,” only to discover that some of their peers, and the city solicitor, believed they weren’t allowed to know anything, even behind closed doors.

The idea of closing Memorial Drive to cars to make more room for socially distanced exercise will go to the city manager for study, the City Council decided after three weeks of discussion. A similar order about neighborhood streets remains on the table.

Orders about closing Memorial Drive and some neighborhood streets to cars to allow for more “social distancing” against the spread of coronavirus was tabled Monday by a 5-4 vote of the City Council.

The use of cameras on school buses generated debate from city councillors as the city manager requested authorization to bid a five-year contract for school bus transportation. Some other technology falling under the city’s surveillance ordinance slipped through without discussion.

A never-explained refusal to produce a report on municipal broadband is angering city councillors and residents just as Louis A. DePasquale is asking to renew his contract as city manager.

City clerk Anthony Wilson is making a change that’s massive in the somewhat esoteric context of municipal clerking: putting virtually every word a councillor utters on the record, fully accessible and searchable for the first time by anyone with an Internet connection.