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, February 5, 2024
- Neary Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Subcommittee Reports; Project Update; Follow-up from Campaign Finance Presentation
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15 pm @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review and sign excise tax commitment
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Continued discussion of Warrant articles (Salary Admin Plan revisions, Community Preservation Act projects, Citizen Petition Articles on funding new Dispatchers); Vote on warrant article positions; Community Center Exploration Committee update; CIPC update on ARPA funding for sidewalks
- Community Center Exploration Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Present work and recommendations to Select Board
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House 2nd floor then relocate to Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Vote on CPC Warrant Articles, then attend Select Board meeting
- Personnel Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Present to Select Board proposed amendments to Salary Administration Plan
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Training Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on 120 Turnpike Road 40B Comprehensive Permit and Special Permit for shared driveway use
- Planning Board Meeting, 7:00 pm @ ZBA Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss 120 Turnpike Rd permit applications
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
- Cultural Arts Council Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Plan grant ceremony
Thursday, February 8, 2024
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 7:30 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: FY25 Budget Discussion
- Master Plan Implementation Committee (MPIC) Meeting, pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Goal Tracker/Matrix; Reassign goals/recommendations; completed goals/recommendations
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Application and Warrant Article Review with Preliminary MOU for Peninsula Trail Next Steps, Southborough Golf Club Irrigation, and Preservation/Restoration/Digitization of Permanent Town Records; Bond Warrant Articles; CPC Letter to Select Board (The video isn’t up yet, but you can look for it here.)
*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.)
