Description
Pursuant to the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law, M.G.L. c. 30A, §§ 18-25, notice is hereby given of a meeting of the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA).
The CRA is holding the meeting virtually with provisions for public access and participation via the Internet and phone. This information will be provided when available.
VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM:
Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/y6fwk3az
or join via phone at 1-646-558-8656
Webinar ID: 880 2359 2569
Passcode: 817318
MEETING AGENDA (Link to PDF)
The following is a proposed agenda containing the items the Chair of the CRA reasonably anticipates
will be discussed at the meeting:
Call Roll
Public Comment
Minutes
1. Motion: To accept the minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Board on November 18, 2020
Communications
2. Written communications received since the publication of the December meeting notice.
Reports, Motions, and Discussion Items
3. Update: 93-99 Bishop Allen Drive – Renovation and Tenant Relocation Plans (Schwarz & Peralta)
Motion: To approve the contract for off-site tenant storage with Sterling Corporation in
Chelmsford, MA for an amount not to exceed $45,000.
Motion: To approve the nine-month lease for space from Caru Retail LLC at 552 Massachusetts
Avenue in Central Square and a corresponding sublease to the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
to provide tenant swing space during the renovation project.
4. KSURP and MXD Eversource Substation Rezoning Update (Evans)
5. Revised Internal Controls Policy Amendment (Kailasam)
Motion: To approve the revised amendment of the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority Internal
Controls Policy dated December 2020
6. Forward Fund Five Year Review and Proposal for 2021 (Peralta)
Motion: To authorize the Executive Director to administer a revised Forward Fund grant
program of up to $300,000 for 2021 and further to authorize the Executive Director to develop a
program for distribution of $200,000 of additional COVID relief funds in coordination with the
City of Cambridge.
7. 2021 Budget (Kailasam)
Motion: To approve the proposed 2021 Cambridge Redevelopment Authority Budget
8. Monthly Staff Report (Evans & Kailasam)
Motion: To approve the draft 2021 Board Meeting calendar
Other Business
At approximately 8:00 PM, the Board will enter into Executive Session to discuss matters related to the
Cambridge Center Development Agreement with Boston Properties within the Kendall Square Urban
Redevelopment Plan.
Motion: To enter into Executive Session to consider potential amendments to the Cambridge
Center Development Agreement.
If the Board has concluded all of the business set forth on the regular agenda by the starting time of the
executive session, the Board will not reconvene in open session thereafter.
Adjournment of CRA Board Meeting
* CRA Board packet of supporting materials posted at: www.cambridgeredevelopment.org/next-meeting/
Upcoming Meetings: Regular CRA Board Meeting – 5:30 PM on January 20, 2020
The Cambridge Redevelopment Authority is a “local public body” for the purpose of the Open Meeting Law pursuant to M. G.
L. c. 30A, § 18. M. G. L. c. 30A, § 20.
In response to the current COVID-19 State of Emergency, on March 12, 2020, Governor Baker issued an Order suspending
certain provisions of the Open Meeting Law. The Order, available here: https://www.mass.gov/doc/open-meeting-law-ordermarch-12-2020/download, allows government bodies subject to the law to meet using remote participation, without presence of members of the general public, or the chair or a quorum of the public body in a physical location at a specified meeting
location. Further if the public body is obligated under the law to provide for active, real-time public participation in the meeting,
an alternative means of public access must provide for such participation.