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.)**
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Updates on EDC, Fire Chief Search, & Budget Meeting with Advisory; Review proposed Town Meeting Warrant Articles
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
- Personnel Board Meeting, 9:00 am @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Salary Admin Plan Amendments; Employee Training/Tuition Reimburstement; Several Job Descriptions; Employee Retention
- Rescheduled to a virtual meeting on January 24 — Regional School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @
Algonquin Regional High School Library, 79 Bartlett St, Northborough(agenda) Agenda Highlights: Presentations on Guidance, Multilingual Learners, and Revised FY25 Budget; Transportation Update - Southborough Stewardship Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Cordaville Hall, Room B (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Encroachment at Breakneck Hill (digging & new posts); Scout Project Inquiry; Invasives; Picnic Table
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Hearings 10 Winter St Accessory apartment and 250 Turnpike Rd (Lot A) two commercial buildings and uses; Proposed Warrant Article on Special Permit Expiration
*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 Regional School Committee meetings (or Combined meetings based at Algonquin) are live broadcast by Northborough Cable Access here and on Southborough’s Education Channel (Verizon-29 and Charter-194). The meetings are also eventually rebroadcast and available through NCAT’s VideoOnDemand player and YouTube channel (though that can take several days).
Updated (1/17/23 4:37 pm): The Regional School Committee is postponed. As long as I’m sharing that, I can also note that meeting agendas have been posted for this Thursday for Library Board of Trustees and Community Preservation Committee.
