Somerville School Committee members and city councilors have expressed a desire for more transparency and more frequent updates around the process.

Public meetings this week look at new housing at Lyndell’s Bakery, school building maintenance, a third electrical transformer in Union Square and more.

Rubén Carmona, director of family, community and employee engagement in Salem schools, will begin work in Somerville in July, relieving an interim leader.

Five finalists in a restarted superintendent search were announced Wednesday by the Somerville School Committee, and they include the favorite candidate from the first round – back after dropping out in February. A Cambridge Public Schools official is on the list too.

The Somerville School Committee have voted to remove police permanently from the city’s public schools, which a group tied to a 2019 incident in which a 6-year-old Black and Latino boy was accused of indecent assault and battery.

A search for a new Somerville Public Schools superintendent is being reopened before the February break in hopes of filling the job by April, officials said.

Instead of announcing a new superintendent on Monday as expected, Somerville School Committee members were left wondering how to proceed as favored applicant Marisa Mendonsa withdrew her candidacy.

Public meetings this week look at a Comcast license renewal, plans for a safe drug-consumption site, maintaining the Armory, choosing a superintendent and more.

Public meetings this week look at traffic and parking in West Somerville and on Holland Street, school superintendent finalists, cable franchise fees and more.

Attend meetings on rodent control, intersection reconstruction, school building maintenance, affordable housing, Winter Hill and Porter and Davis squares, and more.