City Council Notepad: Kathy Born

She's Bartley's Burger Cottage, not the nouvelle cuisine Harvest.

So says Kathleen L. Born, who was reelected to a fourth term as a city councillor last week.

"I know the value of hard work," Born said before the election.

Now she's directing her energies toward creating open spaces and after-school programs and regulating traffic.

Born wrote in her newsletter that she thinks that regulation of these things is the most important method of improving Cambridge as a city.

"I believe that careful planning, with periodic reassessments of the assumptions on which that planning is based, is the hallmark of a healthy city," she wrote.

Born is also the co-chair of the Cambridge Kids' Council. That position has led to another of her top priorities: making sure every child in Cambridge has access to safe after-school activities and top quality education.

--KGS