Cambridge has been cleared to buy 30,752 square feet of state armory parking lot tucked away next to the Tobin School and Vassal Lane Upper School complex, city councillors were told in January, but city staff isn’t saying what it plans to do with it.

So far the Cycling Safety Ordinance has led to piecemeal, neighborhood-by-neighborhood installation and review of new sections of cycle lanes. The process in North Cambridge and elsewhere has been less than transparent and flawed by poor communication with affected residents and businesses.

Cambridge will add a fifth Covid-19 testing site next month, expecting a return to high demand for tests around the February school vacation period. A recent rapid fall in infections has city councillors asking when the coronavirus would stop being a crisis – but hearing that it’s no time soon.

Public meetings this week look at golf course reuse, finding new city managers, clerks and auditors; updates on housing progress; a Youth Resource Officers Program; BioMed’s 585 Third St. tower in Kendall Square; bike lanes through Porter Square; and more.

An assumption that anything built would be cost-neutral or revenue positive within 10 years is undermined by starting with social justice; there are no current plans for public engagement for a market survey; and the City Council’s work has been slowed to nothing by the manager’s obstruction. Cambridge is far from ready for a decision.

A search for the next city manager described as being already behind schedule was slowed further last week despite the pleas of vice mayor Alanna Mallon, who is expected to coordinate the search and its public outreach process.

Despite what Cambridge’s chief public health officer called “uncontrolled transmission” of Covid-19, the city won’t require restaurants, fitness centers and other indoor public spaces to mandate Covid-19 vaccination for their customers and workers, as Boston and neighboring communities have done.

In the pandemic’s second year, is it good that there are “worsts” largely unrelated to it? They include a bike and bus lane breakdown, some bad government and a company that bought up a neighborhood and probably has more of a plan for it than city officials do.

The city is heading toward creation of its own Department of Community Safety as a policing alternative for working with the unhoused, those living with mental illnesses and those with substance use disorders, rather than relying on a community-created nonprofit called the Holistic Emergency Alternative Response Team.

The last orders of business from the full City Council for 2021 were attempts to grapple with a resurgent coronavirus, including an indoor mask mandate for common spaces of all buildings; a proof-of-vaccination requirement for activities and establishments such as indoor dining and gyms; and a call for many City Hall workers to be able to work remotely.