Here are the posted open, public Southborough committee and board meetings for this week* along with my selected highlights from the agendas.
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.
These days, most (but not all) meetings, can be participated in, watched live, and replayed from home.)**
Monday, December 11, 2023
- Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 4:30 pm @ Southborough Library, 25 Main St (agenda) Agenda Highlights: FY25 Budget; Job Descriptions; Library Holiday Celebration
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Open Space Monitoring presentation; MBTA Communities zoning (Rte 9 zoning change overlay with EDC; Members’ proposals for districts and criteria used to consider eligible lots); Discuss 120 Turnpike Rd 40B comments to ZBA and counsel request, 250 Turnpike Rd status, and Park Central 40B; Prioritize MPIC Goals
- Recreation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Golf Course Committee request for support of CPA Application; Public Works Planning Board discussion; Program Coordinator Update; Playground Inspections; Discuss Town Meeting Articles for Field Maintenance Account and Reclassification of Lundblad Engineering Funds; Updates on Winter Rec Center Usage and South Union Building
- Registrars of Voters Meeting, 7:30 pm @ Public Safety Facility Training Room, 32 Cordaville Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Designate Chair and Clerk; Report of required Town Clerk training; Annual vote to delegate certain Registrar’s authorities to Town Clerk; Discuss 2024 primaries and elections and vote on items related to Presidential Primary
- Capital Improvement and Planning Committee Meeting, 8:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Appoint Member to PILOT Committee; Library Feasibility Study Article; Vote on FY25 Capital Requests to bring forward to Select Board/Advisory
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
- Southborough Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Colonial Gardens, Community Room, 49 Boston Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve property insurance payment and Certificates of Completion for Community Building New Roof; Tenant and public concerns
- Youth Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review of job description edits; ARHS 2024 Scholarship
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
- Personnel Board Meeting, 9:00 am @ Public Safety Facility, Training Room, 32 Cordaville Rd and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Salary Administration Plan Amendments; Performance Appraisal Policy Revision; Job Descriptions (for several administrative positions plus Assistant Town Administrator, Town Planner, Deputy Town Clerk, Deputy Treasurer, Facilities Director, Electrician, and Maintenance Tech); Request for Salary Increase for Bus Admin (Fire Dept); Employee Training; FY25 Budget
- Taxation Aid Committee Meeting, 4:15 pm @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss chair position, possible changes to application form, and application schedule
- Trails Committee Meeting, 5:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail updates and next steps
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Trottier Middle School Library, 49 Parkerville Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Presentations on Woodward School Report, Multilingual Learner Education, and FY25 Budget; Updates on MSBA/Neary Building and Trottier paving projects; Mold Mitigation Expenses; Southborough Police Partnership – Safety Center
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Hearings on 120 Turnpike Road 40B Comprehensive Permit and Special Permit to modify shared driveway decision
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss/vote on FY25 budget requests including from Council on Aging, Youth Commission, Town Clerk, and Recreation
- Southborough Housing Opportunity Partnership Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Grant update (one stop, Lead paint, Tech assistance);
Atwood Road Property
Thursday, December 14 , 2023
- Southborough Public Access Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Southborough Tri-centennial; Letter of support for Trails Committee; discuss relevant building permits with Building Commissioner; Update on Town ADA complaints; Discuss input from Mass Commission for the Blind or Mass Office on Disability and impact on Southborough facilities; Discuss progress made on Town’s Self-Assessment Study
Friday, December 15, 2023
- Southborough Cultural Arts Council Meeting, 8:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Training session for members on how grants are processed
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
- Tricentennial Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Discuss research, plan outreach, Celebration ideas/suggestions, budget/warrant article, and future administrative support
Thursday, December 7, 2023
- Neary School Building Committee – Finance Subcommittee Meeting, 7:30 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss design budget (Video should be posted here.)
Friday, December 8, 2023
- Council on Aging Meeting, 11:30 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Marketing materials update; Community/senior center discussion; age and dementia friendly initiatives; Proposal for a town assessment conducted by the Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging; National Caregiver Month
*I don’t list meetings that are only 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).
- School Committee Meetings:
- Subcommittee meetings and some special meetings are only available to attend/view live (in person or by “webinar”) with no later rebroadcast.
- Regular Southborough School Committee meetings are generally broadcast live by Southborough Access Media here and on Verizon-37 and Charter-192. (Video replays are also usually made available through their YouTube channel within a couple of days.)
- 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.
