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, January 29, 2024
- Joint Northborough, Southborough, & Regional School Committees Policy Development Subcommittees Meeting, 5:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review policies in Public Comment period (School Immunization Requirements, Child Abuse and Neglect, and Substance Use Prevention and Education); Review Proposed Student Advisory Committee Policy and polices on Student Travel; First Review of policies in Section K of policy manuals (under Public Relations)
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Report from MPIC; Public Hearing amending the Zoning Code to include the Downtown District in relevant bylaws (Use Regulations, Signs, Outdoor Illumination, Landscaping, etc); Conduct Minor Site Plan Approval of 264 Cordaville Rd; Discuss 21 Highland Future Use Committee, MBTA Communities, and 40Bs (Park Central and 120 Turnpike Rd)
- Master Plan Implementation Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Planning Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Semi-Annual Report to the Planning Board
- Neary School Building Committee & Designer Selection Subcommittee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Dissolve Designer Selection Subcommittee; District leadership team to work with OPM/Designer; Authorization for Communications Subcommittee to engage website designer; Educational visioning process and key dates
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Southborough Public Safety Building Training Room, 32 Cordaville Rd. and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Continued discussion of Warrant Articles (with Personnel Board on Salary Admin Plan changes, Recreation, Assessor, and Town Clerk; Authorize ZBA article for extension of special permits to be sent to Planning Board; Atwood update and Alternative affordable housing sites; Regional Dispatch Update on Westborough RECC; Approve job description for Junior Civil Engineer;
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail update and funding applications; DCR work plan
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
- Tricentennial Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm (agenda and packet, video) Agenda Highlights: Discussion with Recreation Director; Celebration ideas/suggestions; Town Meeting Warrant Articles; Discuss previously designated tasks
Friday, January 26, 2024
- Neary School Building Committee – Communications Subcommittee Meeting, 9:00 am (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Review project website scope and budget; approve communication to the community
*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.)
- 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).
