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. (Scroll down for details on any meetings that popped up after last Monday’s post.) For an updated list of meetings, visit the Town website.
Monday, August 14, 2023
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss MBTA Communities, Select Board Goal to abolish Public Works Planning Board, St. Mark’s St. stonewall and tree mitigation, 40B comment letters to MassHousing, Stonebrook Village Asbuilt review and Bond Reduction
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
- Board of Health Meeting, 9:30 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Appoint Tobacco Control Program Manager; Variance Request for 14 Main Street; Approve Updated Southborough Food Protection Document; FDA Retail Standards; Variance for New Rose Garden and Yama Fuji Sushi Rice
- Recreation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on programs, Kallander field CPA project, and Stanton Foundation Grant; Discuss Field Permit Fee Revolving Fund; Fall TM Article Considerations and Assignments and SB decision not to hold Fall TM; vote on South Union Building and next steps
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail updates and next steps
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on special permit for 2-family home at 9 Jericho Hill Road, and an increase in vehicles for sale at 264 Cordaville Rd
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 8:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Committee’s website improvements, FY25 budget calendar and process, liaisons to budgets and Select Board goals
*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).
