The YWCA Cambridge board of directors announced Monday that Cassandra Ling has been appointed the organization’s executive director.

Residents of Cambridge’s Ward 8 (roughly the area north and west of Harvard Square) are invited to attend a virtual caucus at 11 a.m. March 6 to elect delegates and alternates to the Democratic State Convention scheduled for June 3-4. Elected delegates and alternates may attend the Worcester convention in person or participate remotely.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Danielle Allen said Tuesday that she is winding down her campaign, leaving by “sounding an alarm” about a process that leaves fewer people such as herself on the ballot.

The YWCA Cambridge is searching for a new executive director, the organization’s board of directors said this week. Cassandra Ling, who has served as board chair, will serve as interim executive director during the search. Her predecessor, Tania Del Rio, resigned last month to run for state Sen. Lydia Edwards’ former seat on the Boston City Council.

Victory was declared by Lydia Edwards in the one-person race for a state Senate seat representing parts of Cambridge, Boston, East Boston and Winthrop and Revere.

The new City Council term is bringing some shifts in committee assignments, while the Planning Board and Board of Zoning Appeal similarly prepared last week for the coming year of work. One body of appointed officials stayed the course; the other made big changes in leadership.

School Committee members were sworn in Monday, elected Rachel Weinstein to be vice chair for the term and agreed to hold off on changing the rules under which they operate until the amendments could be reviewed fully.

Things moved fast at Monday’s City Council inaugural, held outdoors at the Starlight Square complex in frigid 25-degree weather. Sumbul Siddiqui was returned to the Mayor’s Office unanimously, and Alanna Mallon was voted back to her seat as vice mayor.

Public meetings this week look at swearing-in the new City Council and School Committee; ending single-family zoning, building an 100 percent affordable-housing mixed-use project on New Street; tearing down the Garage mall; replacing a Harvard Street apartment building destroyed by a 2020 fire; and more.

After years of effort, a campaign finance reform order has passed the City Council. The latest version of the law had been in the works for 14 months, and city councillor Dennis Carlone noted he’d been part of two earlier attempts that he said “died by pieces” since he joined the council in 2013.