The Cambridge Housing Authority is “strongly considering” requiring employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 when it reopens offices fully, and Cambridge’s hospitals are looking at requirements as well.

Public meetings this week look at municipal campaign finance reform proposals, how to spend $65 million in pandemic recovery funds, a citizen proposal for an unarmed public safety response team and the relocation of an Eversource gas eyesore in Kendall Square.

A 15-acre project called USQ got a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday, signaling what one speaker declared “the return of Union Square as the center of commerce for Somerville.”

Coronavirus cases among Cambridge residents have been rising this month, slowly at first and now much more sharply. And many of those infected were fully vaccinated, though none were known to get seriously ill or were hospitalized.

Recent shootings in The Port neighborhood and the city’s response will be the topic of a Wednesday virtual meeting. Police are investigating two separate, nonfatal shootings Thursday and Friday and others that took place in the area.

Public meetings this week look at Volpe development zoning, a recreational cannabis shop and delivery service and Eversource gas plan relocation in Kendall Square and East Cambridge; the importance of cannabis cooperatives; and more.

Public meetings this week look at hiring the next city manager; building the Tobin and Vassal Lane schools; parking and car policies; and the city’s water supply.

Public meetings this week look at a condo conversion, closing Central Square to car traffic – along with four topics delayed from last week – as well as hiring the next city manager, ensuring after-school programming for the fall and adding Summer Shack and Bar-Enza to Harvard Square’s dining mix.

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.