Public meetings this week look at an evaluation for embattled schools superintendent Victoria Greer and the state of policing in Cambridge. There’s also the first of two town halls run by an organization looking into the term’s City Council agenda on housing.
Cambridge public notices for work at Christ Church in Cambridge; on Inman Street in Mid-Cambridge; in the Half Crown-Marsh; and for the Board of Zoning Appeal.
Asserting an arbitrary standard of “decorum” while prohibiting the naming of names not only intimidates the public but violate the School Committee’s own rules and a ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court.
After deferring an evaluation that could have decided the fate of Victoria Greer, the school district superintendent, the Cambridge School Committee has set itself up for a dramatic turn from March to April.
Cambridge thinks it might have an answer to steep food delivery fees – subsidizing cargo e-bikes for local businesses. But it would leave those businesses to buy and maintain the bikes and find their own delivery people.
Leaving children and educators in inadequate swing space for more time than necessary, with no apparent solution for the next building failure, should not be an option.
It is the responsibility of elected leaders to review and determine which projects would benefit those in greater need, rather than outsourcing this crucial task of spending $2 million to a popularity contest than can be swayed by those with more resources.