Here are the posted open, public Southborough committee and board meetings for this week* along with my selected highlights from the agendas.
These days, some meetings are over zoom, some in-person, and others are hybrids that allow both participation through both options. (Most, but not all, can be participated in, watched live, and replayed from home.)**
As always, be aware that changes to the meeting schedule (and agendas) are known to happen throughout the week. For an updated list of meetings, visit the Town website.
Monday, July 10, 2023
- Southborough Housing Opportunity Partnership Committee Meeting, 6:20 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Vote new representative to CPC
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet, hearing materials) Agenda Highlights: Hearing on Fayville Hall History & Arts Center site plan; Discuss MBTA Communities, Policy for Public Shade Trees on Scenic Roads, and 6-8 Turnpike Rd bond release, Deerfoot Rd school bus turnaround, and Mass Housing Request for comment on proposed 40B at 120 Turnpike Rd
- Open Space Preservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @
Cordaville Hall, Room B (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Master Plan and OSRP Review (Tree Specialist and Tree Forum); prpoposed 118/120 Turnpike Road 40B; Site Plan Reviews (St. Marks Road Park, St. Marks School Parking Lot, Fayville Village Hall); Review South Union School Report - Capital Improvement and Planning Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Elect officers; Updates on Neary and Community Center committees; Fire Dept Request for Grant Matching Funds; Request vetting process; Sidewalks recommendation to Select Board
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
- Southborough Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Colonial Gardens, 49 Boston Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve the Southborough Housing Authority Parking Policy
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet, Tree hearing materials) Agenda Highlights: Continued National Grid Tree Hearing; Pole Hearings for Walker St and Meadow Lane; Updates on St. Marks Street road/park project; Proposed 120 Turnpike Road 40B; Fire and Police Chief memo on investing in dispatch; New Public Comment policy; Town Administrator goals for FY24; proposed October 17 Special Town Meeting
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Joint meeting with Select Board for Scenic Road Tree Hearing – National Grid Hazardous mitigation plan for several locations (Continued from 6/20)
- Youth Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Strategic plan progress report; Program and service definitions; Review proposals to Select Board for ARPA spending
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ Cordaville Hall, Room B (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Town House Preservation Project request for change order and status of bond
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
- Personnel Board Meeting, 9:00 am @ Public Safety Complex, 32 Cordaville Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Employee Handbook/SAP Revisions; Discussion of Salary Grid Implementation, FY25 Compensation
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 8:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Possible votes on fiscal year end inter-departmental transfers and/or reserve fund requests and Fire Department reserve fund request for grant matching funds
Thursday, July 13, 2023
- Conservation Commission Meeting, following Closed Executive Session at 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Violation at 38 Presidential Drive update; Request for Invalid Certificate of Compliance 0-18 Lovers Lane; proposed 40B at 120 Turnpike Road
**Details on watching meetings remotely:
- Town Committee/Board Meetings:
- If in-person meetings don’t also advertise a zoom option, assume that it won’t be broadcast or captured on video.
- To remotely participate in meetings that allow zoom, click here.
- To live stream (or view later) remote or hybrid meetings (even those covered by Southborough Access Media) over the internet, use the Town’s YouTube Channel for Remote Meetings. (The meetings covered by SAM can also be streamed on their website here, and eventually on SAM’s YouTube Channel.)
- Cable Access — Southborough Access Media broadcasts the regular evening meetings for the Select Board, Planning Board, and Zoning Board of Appeals that take place in the Town House Hearing Room. (Those meetings will still allow zoom participation.) View SAM’s live and replayed broadcasts via their Government cable access channel (Verizon-38 and Charter-194).
- Other:
- Southborough does participate in some regional collaboratives hosted in other towns. Those committees follow their own rules and may not offer a way to re-watch zoom meetings.
