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In its ongoing efforts to identify ways to better serve the community, the City of Cambridge is conducting its biennial Resident Opinion Survey. The survey, which has been conducted since 2000, serves as an important evaluation tool that enables residents to rate City services and offer input on what the City of Cambridge does well and where it can make improvements. The online survey will be open September 14 – October 5, 2020.
City of Cambridge Amends Temporary Emergency Order Requiring Wearing of Face Masks

The City of Cambridge today issued amendments to its emergency order requiring that face coverings be worn in all public places, businesses, and common areas of residential buildings with two or more dwelling units. The order goes into effect at 12:00 a.m. on Friday, October 2, 2020.
City of Cambridge Housing Stabilization Program Expands Subsidy Payments to 4 Months

The City of Cambridge announced it is expanding payments from its COVID-19 Housing Stabilization Program from two months of short-term financial assistance to four months of assistance.
City's Department of Human Service Programs Launches Fall on the Fields, Outdoor Activities for Jk-8th Graders Sept. 21 – Oct. 30

The Department of Human Service Programs (DHSP) launched its "Fall on the Fields," a series of free, outdoor experiences for Cambridge JK-8th graders, from September 21-October 30, from 3-6 p.m. on weekdays, at Danehy Park, Rindge, Hoyt, Donnelly, and Sennott Fields.
City of Cambridge Partnership with Local Restaurants Provides Over 70,000 Meals to Homeless Residents

The City of Cambridge announced that it is extending its successful program for feeding homeless residents with meals provided by local food establishments through December 31, 2020. In March, the City launched an innovative project to contract with local restaurants to provide food to the City’s homeless community during the COVID-19 public health crisis. To date, over 70,000 meals have been provided and more than 2,800 meals are now being delivered each week to shelters across the City.
City of Cambridge Extends Outdoor Dining

The City of Cambridge announced it is extending outdoor dining in the City until 60 days after the end of the Commonwealth’s declared state of emergency. This announcement follows the Governor’s Executive Order last week, which gave cities and towns the flexibility to extend outdoor dining past the initial November 1 deadline.
City of Cambridge Announces Funding for Local Mask Partnership

The City of Cambridge has teamed up with the Cambridge Mask Alliance, a coalition of 12 local nonprofits led by Cambridge Volunteer Clearinghouse (CVC), to make face masks accessible to those most in need.

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Special City Council Meeting
12:00 PM
Special City Council Meeting
Saeed Jones presents How We Fight for Our Lives in conversation with E. Patrick Johnson
7:00 PM
Registration is required. Zoom link will be sent out prior to the event. Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence—into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another—and to one another—as we fight to become ourselves. Saeed Jones is the author of the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives, winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, and the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise, winner of the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award. The poetry collection was also a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as awards from Lambda Literary and the Publishing Triangle in 2015. He lives in Columbus, Ohio E. Patrick Johnson is the Dean of the School of Communication and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University.Johnson is a prolific performer and scholar, and an inspiring teacher, whose research and artistry has greatly impacted African American studies, Performance studies, and Gender and Sexuality studies. Sponsored by Friends of the Cambridge Public Library

Board of Assessors Public Meeting
2:00 PM
Board of Assessors Public Meeting
Economic Development and University Relations Committee
2:00 PM
Economic Development and University Relations Committee
Committee on Public Planting
5:30 PM
Committee on Public Planting
Election Commission
5:30 PM
Regular Meeting
Regular Meeting of the Police Review & Advisory Board
6:00 PM
Regular Meeting of the Police Review & Advisory Board

Board of License Commissioners’ Public Meeting
3:00 PM
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Cambridge Historical Commission Meeting
6:00 PM
Cambridge Historical Commission Meeting
Virtual Human Rights Commission Meeting
6:00 PM
Monthly Cambridge Human Rights Meeting via zoom

Special City Council Meeting
12:00 PM
Special City Council Meeting
Saeed Jones presents How We Fight for Our Lives in conversation with E. Patrick Johnson
7:00 PM
Registration is required. Zoom link will be sent out prior to the event. Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence—into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another—and to one another—as we fight to become ourselves. Saeed Jones is the author of the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives, winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, and the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise, winner of the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award. The poetry collection was also a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as awards from Lambda Literary and the Publishing Triangle in 2015. He lives in Columbus, Ohio E. Patrick Johnson is the Dean of the School of Communication and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University.Johnson is a prolific performer and scholar, and an inspiring teacher, whose research and artistry has greatly impacted African American studies, Performance studies, and Gender and Sexuality studies. Sponsored by Friends of the Cambridge Public Library

Board of Assessors Public Meeting
2:00 PM
Board of Assessors Public Meeting
Economic Development and University Relations Committee
2:00 PM
Economic Development and University Relations Committee
Committee on Public Planting
5:30 PM
Committee on Public Planting
Election Commission
5:30 PM
Regular Meeting
Regular Meeting of the Police Review & Advisory Board
6:00 PM
Regular Meeting of the Police Review & Advisory Board

Special City Council Meeting
12:00 PM
Special City Council Meeting
Saeed Jones presents How We Fight for Our Lives in conversation with E. Patrick Johnson
7:00 PM
Registration is required. Zoom link will be sent out prior to the event. Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence—into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another—and to one another—as we fight to become ourselves. Saeed Jones is the author of the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives, winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, and the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise, winner of the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award. The poetry collection was also a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as awards from Lambda Literary and the Publishing Triangle in 2015. He lives in Columbus, Ohio E. Patrick Johnson is the Dean of the School of Communication and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University.Johnson is a prolific performer and scholar, and an inspiring teacher, whose research and artistry has greatly impacted African American studies, Performance studies, and Gender and Sexuality studies. Sponsored by Friends of the Cambridge Public Library

Board of Assessors Public Meeting
2:00 PM
Board of Assessors Public Meeting

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