Public meetings this week look at reparations through cannabis revenue, name changes to the Agassiz neighborhood and Central Square branch library, police surveillance technology that worries civil libertarians, aging elementary schools, tree tear-downs and much more.

The incrementalism of the City Council’s charter change order is sad, but what elevates it to tragedy is how thoroughly the nature of our government stunts its own reform, and how blind the council as a whole seems in identifying the circular nature of the problem.

Six months after Congress approved roughly $16 billion in aid for entertainment venues shattered by coronavirus, only 411 have received money out of 14,214 applications. The Small Business Administration says it’s working to catch up.

More than 80 percent of workers at nursing homes in Cambridge are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to government filings. But there is little data breaking down rates by job category, which would show how many employees who have the most contact with residents are immunized.

Public meetings this week look at buying land in Alewife, updating green space, keeping options for remote speaking at City Council and School Committee meetings, a boutique hotel proposal and improvements to The Port neighborhood.

Cambridge residents under 20 have become the age group making up the largest share of new Covid-19 cases in the past two weeks, although overall numbers are tiny. For months before now, people in their 20s had accounted for more new infections than any other age group.

Covid-19 case rates have sunk to the low single digits and 70 percent of Cambridge residents have received at least one shot of vaccine, though there is some concern around vaccination rates among 16- to 19-year-olds.

Public meetings this week look at, well, what public meetings will look like after the pandemic, a proposal for a new kind of public safety and enacting an acoustic music law; cutting small-business permitting and licensing fees; “missing middle” zoning; and the return of the Cantab Lounge.

Could the staff of Cambridge’s public libraries have been doing more in recent months? Should the main library have opened earlier? During a global pandemic, the city chose safety first.

Public meetings this week look at how Covid affected high school graduation rates, reforming the city’s Plan E charter, planning for a cohesive Alewife neighborhood, two potential Neighborhood Conservation Districts and a remake of The Garage in Harvard Square.