City Council Meeting – March 22nd, 2026

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Meeting Link

City Manager’s Agenda

Reports and Communications

  • #1 (CMA 2026-66) Recommendations for water and sewer rates for the period beginning April 1, 2026 and ending March 31, 2027
  • #4 (CMA 2026-65) A request that the city council vote to classify the BEUDO Review Board as special municipal employees
  • #7 (CMA 2026-63) A response to the council’s request to explore a potential Snow Corps program
  • #8 (CMA 2026-60) A letter from the Planning Board regarding the 2025 Town Gown Reports and Presentations

Appropriations and Grants

  • #2 (CMA 2026-67) $900,000 from the Mitigation Revenue Stabilization Fund to support the design costs toward a new off-road bridge over the Fitchburg Rail Line that will connect Danehy Park to the Rindge Avenue neighborhood
  • #5 (CMA 2026-61) $5,234,379, from Free Cash for expenses associated with snow weather events
  • #6 (CMA 2026-62) $700,000.00 from Free Cash to support road repairs related to snow operations

Appointments

  • #3 (CMA 2026-64) BEUDO Review Board – John Boehs

Policy Orders

Requests that the city…

  • #1 (POR 2026-57) “light up City Hall in light blue, light pink, and white from March 31, 2026, until April 6, 2026, in honor of Transgender Day of Visibility”
  • #3 (POR 2026-59) “meet with Harvard’s Office of Community Relations and the Longwood Collective (MASCO) to harmonize institutional bus protocols with public-facing commitments”
  • #4 (POR 2026-61) to see if the city can require single-stall public bathrooms to be gender-neutral

That the council…

  • #2 (POR 2026-58) support H.91 and S.2556, An Act to modernize funding for community media programming

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