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 25, 2024
- Neary School Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Subcommittee Reports; Building Performance Presentation by project designer
- SHOPC (Southborough Housing Opportunity Partnership Committee) Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Facility Training Room, 32 Cordaville Rd. (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Meeting with stakeholders regarding the 61A parcel on Northborough Road (and Town’s right of first refusal)
- Open Space Preservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ SHOPC Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Attend SHOPC meeting
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Neary School Building Committee – Communications Subcommittee Meeting, 10:30 am@ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Survey responses and raw results; Website update and feedback for launch; review initial responses to FAQs
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15 pm @ DPW Meeting Room, 147 Cordaville Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Monthly excise tax abatements; Approve senior property tax work off amount
- Stewardship Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Cordaville Hall, Room B, 9 Cordaville Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Community Gardens; Update on Farm Dump; proposal for abutting 40B next steps; Earth Day; Invasives; Breakneck tasks
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Hearings on 120 Turnpike Rd 40B permit and modification of special permit for shared drive
Thursday, March 28, 2024
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Hearings on 4 Spring Meadow drainage pipe replacement, 77 Deerfoot demolition and additions, and 20 Sears Rd channel to replace pipe; Expanding Important Farmland Soils; 200 Southville potential violation; Farm Dump progress; Northboro Rd parcels intent to sell; St Mark’s stormwater impacts
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- Capital Improvement and Planning Committee Meeting,
7:30 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Neary Building Committee status; FY25 Budget and Town Meeting update; CPC Capital Related Articles; Request for support on Public Works board & committee Articles
Thursday, March 21, 2024
- Open Space Preservation Commission Meeting, 11:30 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Chapter 61 Johnson Land right of first refusal; 118-120 Turnpike Rd 40B review; South Union School update; Annual Town Meeting and CPC Articles; Town House planting and Library Landscaping; Finalize Native Plant Requirements Language for Conservation and Planning Board; Chestnut Hill Farm Management Plan; Projects and programs updates and planning
Saturday, March 23, 2024
- Annual Town Meeting pre-meetings @ Trottier Middle School, 49 Parkerville Road:
- Select Board Meeting, 8:30 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Town Meeting prep
- Planning Board Meeting, 9:00 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Public hearings on zoning Articles for Annual Town Meeting; discuss MBTA presentation
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 9:30 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss Warrant Articles 28-31 and Letters of Expectations
- Tricentennial Committee Meeting, 9:30 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Town Meeting presentation prep and Discuss formation of 501(c)3 account
*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-37 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.
