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, March 4, 2024
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda, proposed bylaw and maps) Agenda Highlights: Public hearing on MBTA Communities multi-family zoning
- SHOPC (Southborough Housing Opportunity Partnership Committee) Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Planning Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Attend MBTA zoning hearing
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: FY25 Water Rates; Atwood St update; sign final Warrant for Annual Town Meeting; Discuss legality of Article proposing higher voting threshold for certain Community Preservation Act projects; Review MBTA zoning Article
- Stewardship Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Facility – Training Room, 32 Cordaville Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Town Forest; Farm Dump next steps; Proposed 40B at 120 Turnpike Rd; Community Gardens; Interpretive Sign; Invasives; and Trails
- Neary Building Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Project update from consultant; Review of design configurations; Vote on consultant supplemental services; Discuss feedback from open forums; vote on survey release
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15 pm @ DPW Meeting Room, 147 Cordaville Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve excise tax abatements and senior property tax work off amount
Thursday, March 7, 2024
- Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds Meeting, 8:00 am @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Council on Aging’s referral for assistance for a resident
- Golf Course Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Course improvement planning (drainage, cart path paving, additional barrier, and continued effort to minimize wayward balls); Annual report and Irrigation Project presentation
- Trottier School Council Meeting, 2:30 pm @ Trottier Middle School (agenda) Agenda Highlights: School Culture Update; Carnegie Math Year 1 and adjustments for next year; ELA curriculum review; 6th grade health ’24-’25
- Taxation Aid Committee Meeting, 4:15 pm Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review ’24 applicant list; Discuss review and seeing applications
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on 35 Clifford St home addition and deck extension and 20 Sears Rd replacement of pipe with naturalized channel; Interest in 88 Turnpike Rd parcels for Open Space; Chestnut Hill Farm Management Plan update; Breakneck Hill Farm Dump status; Notice of intent to sell Northboro Road pacels; St Mark’s stormwater impacts
- SHOPC (Southborough Housing Opportunity Partnership Committee) Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on MBTA Communities zoning, Atwood property, and 61A Northboro Road parcels
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
- Golf Course Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Attend Advisory Committee Meeting (discussion on CPA project for course irrigation)
Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Open Space Preservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Chapter 61 Johnson Land Right of First Refusal; 118/120 Turnpike Rd 40B review; Updates on St Mark’s Road park school parking lot, and South Union School committee; CPC projects Audubon management plan; Chestnut Hill Farm Management Plan
Friday, March 1, 2024
- Council on Aging Meeting, 11:30 am (agenda)
*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.
