CAN is participating in Project Clean Stream which is a City-wide effort to clean up waterways of Cambridge. CAN’s area is Cedar St. where the Creek starts at Generation III Marina. We need volunteers from 10 to 11 on SATURDAY, APRIL 21.

We will be working with five or six High School students, who can actually bend over. We know tennis, golf, and gardening are great but what could be more fun than picking up trash! Do your good deed for the Spring and join us on Cedar St. We will have gloves, bags, traffic vests, etc., so all you have to bring is your happy self.

We’ll meet at 10 am in the parking lot on Cedar St between Perimore St and Moreland Ave (across from Generation III Marina).

Join us for an hour

— Chuck McFadden

CAN is organizing a group of volunteers to participate in the ShoreRivers Cleanup Day on Saturday, April 7.

We’ll meet at 10 am in the parking lot on Cedar St between Perimore St and Moreland Ave (across from Generation III Marina). Please join us!!

Contact Chuck McFadden at Ragtime31@gmail.com or CambridgeCAN@yahoo.com for additional details.

The results of CAN’S survey on “PRIORITIES FOR CAMBRIDGE” are in!!

The first attachment below summarizes the numerical results of the survey. A total of 144 individuals completed the survey, representing a response rate of almost 25% of our distribution list.

Overall, Economic Development was rated as respondents’ top priority, with Public Safety and Safe/Livable Housing sharing second place.

The second attachment provides the narrative comments received from respondents. These comments are particularly useful in demonstrating the intensity of feeling underlying the numerical data.

In light of the survey results, one of CAN’s top priorities going forward will be to encourage the City to strengthen its economic development efforts.

Although we elicited an excellent response rate for a survey of this type, CAN is working hard to expand its email list so we can reach a broader cross section of Cambridge residents in future surveys.

Note from CAN Board Member Frank Cooke: As a former statistician, I would disagree with part of your conclusion [above]. While jobs and economic development is clearly number 1, you should not declare public safety and safe/livable housing are second implying that everything else is third or less. Given your sample size, improved city facilities and strong finance are statistically indistinguishable from the the two second place finishers that you cite. All one can really say is that jobs and economic growth seem to be the most important factor and that environmental and health issues are lower priorities. The other four concerns fall somewhere in between and are in a statistical tie. The results indicate to me that CAN’s focus on housing is not in line with the citizens who responded. I think it should be instructive to CAN’s board of directors and hopefully will be a topic for further discussion of CAN’s emphasis. I would appreciate it if you would post my response to the general membership. Thanks for conducting the survey. Respectfully, Frank Cooke

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CAN SURVEY ON PRIORITIES FOR CAMBRIDGE

The Cambridge City Council has set a number of goals to be used in it’s annual budgeting process.

The Cambridge Association of Neighborhoods (CAN) has developed a very brief survey (link below) to get your input on how you would rank order these goals, to give the City Council feedback as to which of these goals should be given the greatest priority.

Please take just a couple of minutes to provide this valuable information and add a comment or two if you wish. CAN will compile the results and give them to the City Council and share them with you.

We CAN make a difference.

Please click here to start: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LWMMNPY

Thank you,
Charles McFadden, President
Cambridge Association of Neighborhoods