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, August 7, 2023
- Stewardship Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review comments on proposed 120 Turnpike Rd 40B, Discuss Invasive work, Beecology and Pollinator Gardens, Meadow install, Farm Dump, and Bluebird boxes clean out
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
- Affordable Housing Trust Fund Committee Meeting, 6:15 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Reorganize committee; Draft report to send to Community Preservation Committee detailing expenditures of funds received from CPC
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Interview/appoint volunteers for Youth Commission, Tricentennial Committee, and EDC; Public Forum on 40B eligibility applications for 120 and 250 Turnpike Road (and approve comment letters to MassHousing); Updates on St. Mark’s land transfer, regional dispatch discussions with Framingham, new transfer sticker waiver process, and potential transfer of CPC funds to AHTF; Award St. Mark’s Street park bid; Discuss Select Board FY24 goals
- Southborough Housing Opportunity Partnership Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Select Board’s discussion of 120 & 250 Turnpike Road proposed 40Bs
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
- Personnel Board Meeting, 9:00 am @ Public Safety Complex, 32 Cordaville Rd and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Expenditure Ledger; Employee Handbook; FY24 Compensation for Police Dispatchers; Salary Grid Implementation Analysis; FY25 Compensation
Thursday, August 10, 2023
- Golf Course Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ Southborough Golf Clubhouse, 32 Cordaville Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: In-progress course project status; Irrigation; Discuss Conservation Restriction with Sudbury Valley Trustees
*I don’t include closed Executive Sessions unless the agenda indicates the possibility of some action in an open public session at the opening or closing of the meeting.
**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).
