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, February 20, 2024
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15 pm @ DPW Meeting Room,
147 Cordaville Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: After closed Executive Session, release the votes and totals for personal real estate tax exemptions and abatement applications. - Southborough Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Colonial Gardens Community Room, 49 Boston Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve entering contract for Intercom repairs with lowest quoting vendor; Pursue a credit card and related policy for SHA
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Work Session on MBTA Communities Draft Bylaw and Presentation
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss and vote on positions for Town Meeting Warrant on FY25 budgets and other Articles
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail updates and DCR work plan
Thursday, February 22, 2024
- Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds Meeting, 8:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Referral for assistance for resident by Council on Aging; de minimus request for assistance
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Thursday, February 15, 2024
- Neary School Building Committee – Finance Subcommittee Meeting, pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Approve invoices
*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).
- 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.
