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 26, 2024
- Personnel Board Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Job description and classification for Civil Engineer II for DPW
- Golf Course Committee Meeting, 12:30 pm @ Public Safety Facility Training Room, 32 Cordaville Rd and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Course improvement planning; Annual Report; Irrigation project presentation
- Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 6:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Copy machine revenue; Mass Public Library Construction Program; Staff Appreciation Week; Library Director Evaluation; Town Meeting; Community Center Exploration Committee
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Minor Site Plan Approval for 264 Cordaville Rd; Public Hearings on Warrant Articles to amend zoning for Special Permit expirations, relevant references to Downtown District, and MBTA Communities Multi-Family overlay zoning; Discuss 325 Turnpike Rd (Ken’s Foods) Expansion Asbuilt Review, 40Bs (Park Central and 120 Turnpike Rd), Public Works Planning Board changes Update, and Town’s right of first refusal on Northboro Rd Chapt 61 Parcels
- SHOPC (Southborough Housing Opportunity Partnership Committee) Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Planning Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Attending for MBTA Zoning discussion
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Q2 Financial Review; Peninsula Trail project spending of ARPA; Licenses for Braza Pizzeria & Wings at 5 Turnpike Road and Eros Gourmet Pizza at 162 Cordaville Road; Approve revised job description for Civil Engineer; Approve Statement of Interest to MSBA for Trottier school roof feasibility study; Discuss Town Meeting Warrant Articles and board positions; Southborough budget requests for FY25 State budget; Discuss Right of First Refusal for Northboro Road Chapt 61 parcels (71-0000-001-A and 71-0000-006-0)
- SHOPC (Southborough Housing Opportunity Partnership Committee) Meeting Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss Northboro Road Chapt 61 parcels
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
- Regional School Committee Student Advisory Committee Meeting, 5:45 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review progress on goals; Policy Review; Student updates
- Regional School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library, 79 Bartlett St, Northborough and zoom (agenda and materials) Agenda Highlights: Vote on FY25 Budget; Potential vote on ’24-’24 lunch price increase; GonkPlex Update; Solar Update
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Vote on FY25 Budget and Town Meeting Articles
Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Neary School Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Trottier Middle School Auditorium, 49 Parkerville Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Open Forum for the public related to Neary Building Feasibility Study
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Saturday, February 24, 2024
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 4:00 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss Warrant Article on CPA Community Housing Funds; Review Town Counsel’s Comments on Articles; Vote on CPA project Articles and Memos of Understanding (video not yet posted, but 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 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).
