Other Boards & Commissions

Agendas, minutes & memberships from the city’s own record

• Planning Board
• Board of Zoning Appeal
• Historical Commission
• Avon Hill NCDC
• Half Crown-Marsh NCDC
• Mid Cambridge NCDC
• License Commission
• Arts Council Advisory Board
• Board of Assessors
• Central Square Advisory Committee
• Charter Review Committee
• City Clerk Screening Committee
• City Manager Evaluation Subcommittee
• Community Advisory Board on the Living Wage
• Community Benefits Advisory Committee
• Community Preservation Act Committee
• Dedication Committee
• Election Commission
• Fresh Pond Master Plan Advisory Board
• Human Rights Commission
• LGBTQ+ Commission
• Peace Commission
• Pole and Conduit Commission
• Police Review & Advisory Board
• Public Art Commission
• Roundtable / Working Meeting
• Special Committee of the Whole on Charter Review
• Water Board

Looking for the City Council’s committees (Ordinance, Finance, Housing, and the rest)? They live with the council record: City Council. The School Committee keeps its own record too.

Every other body on the record

Cambridge has no single complete list of its own boards. The city publishes a directory; the Municipal Code establishes bodies the directory omits; and the council votes appointments to bodies that appear in neither. These are the three reconciled, so a body cannot go missing just because one source forgot it.

• Advisory Committee on Environmentally Desirable PracticesRoster on file
• Affirmative Action Advisory CommitteeNo appointment on the council record
• Affordable Housing TrustRoster on file
• American Freedmen CommissionAppointments on the record
• Animal CommissionNo appointment on the council record
• BEUDO Review BoardAppointments on the record
• BIPOC Business Advisory CommitteeAppointments on the record
• Bicycle CommitteeRoster on file
• Board of SurveyRoster on file
• Boards of ExaminersNo appointment on the council record
• COVID-19 Advisory CommitteeNo appointment in over five years
• Cambridge Biosafety CommitteeRoster on file
• Cambridge Health AllianceRoster on file
• Cambridge Health Policy BoardNo appointment on the council record
• Cambridge Housing AuthorityRoster on file
• Cambridge Industrial CommissionNo appointment on the council record
• Cambridge Kiosk Advisory CommitteeAppointments on the record
• Cambridge Redevelopment AuthorityRoster on file
• Celebrations CommitteeAppointments on the record
• Cemetery Master Plan Advisory CommitteeAppointments on the record
• Climate Protection Action CommitteeRoster on file
• Commercial Parking Control CommitteeAppointments on the record
• Commission for Persons with DisabilitiesRoster on file
• Commission on Immigrant Rights and CitizenshipRoster on file
• Commission on the Status of WomenRoster on file
• Community Schools CommissionNo appointment on the council record
• Conservation CommissionRoster on file
• Consumer Advisory CommitteeNo appointment on the council record
• Council on AgingRoster on file
• Cycling Safety Ordinance Implementation Advisory CommitteeAppointments on the record
• Energy CommissionNo appointment on the council record
• Family Policy CouncilRoster on file
• Foundry Advisory CommitteeAppointments on the record
• Harvard Square Advisory CommitteeRoster on file
• Harvard Square Conservation District Study CommitteeNo appointment in over five years
• Human Services CommissionRoster on file
• Kids' CouncilAppointments on the record
• LGBTQ+ Friendly Housing Task ForceAppointments on the record
• Library Board of TrusteesRoster on file
• Mayor's Special Advisory Committee on Neighborhood-Based ResilienceNo appointment in over five years
• Net Zero Action Plan Task ForceNo appointment in over five years
• Open Data Review BoardAppointments on the record
• Pedestrian CommitteeRoster on file
• Public Planting CommitteeAppointments on the record
• Recycling Advisory CommitteeRoster on file
• Retirement BoardRoster on file
• Small Business Recovery Advisory CommitteeNo appointment in over five years
• Social Housing Task ForceAppointments on the record
• Traffic BoardAppointments on the record
• Transit Advisory CommitteeRoster on file
• Transportation Task ForceNo appointment in over five years
• Vaccine Task ForceNo appointment in over five years
• Vision Zero Advisory CommitteeNo appointment in over five years
• Wage Theft Enforcement CommitteeAppointments on the record

A body marked no appointment on the council record is not necessarily dormant. Many are seated by the City Manager without a council vote, and our parsed record begins January 1, 2017. Each page says so in those words.