Length of this week’s City Council meeting: about 2 hours and 20 minutes. Here are a few highlights:
- City Councilor Craig Kelley wants to know why the bricks removed from the plaza in the area of Cedar Street and Mass. Ave. have not been replaced where a large asphalt patch now remains.
- A week after a tractor-trailer truck driver fatally struck a Harvard student, city councilors want to know why. They asked the City Manager to investigate whether to change the traffic signal timing at the intersection of Prospect Street and Mass. Ave.
- City Councilor Marjorie Decker asked her colleagues to support a state Senate bill that would create a state Board of Midwifery, which would receive, review and approve midwifery licenses.
- City Councilor David Maher wants city staff to look into why there was a power outage in West Cambridge March 17. NSTAR spokesman Mike Durand told the Chronicle 1,200 homes were without power for about two hours that night after an underground cable malfunctioned. About 700 homes lost power again for a few minutes at about 3:45 a.m., according to Durand. Cambridge officials considered managing their own electrical company for the city after a number of unplanned power outages plagued the Area 4 neighborhood in 2006.
-Erin Smith
