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, April 8, 2024
- Select Board Meeting, 8:00 am @ Town House Hearing room and zoom (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Voting to appoint new Fire Chief
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Trottier Middle School Library, 49 Parkerville Rd (agenda with materials) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearing on School Choice; Trottier Principal’s Report; Student presentation on DC trip; ELA Presentation; Busing Schedules/Start Time Summary; Student Opportunity Act; vote on School Choice; Grant Idea brainstorming; Neary Building Committee update
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- Cable Television Committee Meeting, 2:00 pm @ Town House Hearing room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review Draft Verizon Renewal License; SAM budgets and Legal Fees
- Southborough Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Colonial Gardens, Community Room, 49 Boston Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve specification for exterior door replacement project
- Recreation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ South Union Building,
21 Highland St (agenda) Agenda Highlights: ABSA Batting Cage proposal; Master Plan Committee discussion; Program Update; Job Description for Rec Admin; Lundblad Field/Dog Park Update; Northborough Road parcels; Dept staffing - Youth Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Facility Training Room, 32 Cordaville Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Budget and strategic plan updates; commission vacancy; Vote on recipients of Ellen Pointek Scholarship and Laurie Sugarman-Whittier Wellness Award; Outreach opportunities; Friends update
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- Personnel Board Meeting, 9:00 am @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Final review (and potential vote) on Employee Handbook, Tuition Reimbursement; Employee Training; Job Discriptions for Building Department and
- PILOT Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Prioritize objectives and outcome Nurse/Assistant Health Director/Outreach Coordinator; Vacation request; Treasurer Dept request for salary increase; FY25 Reclassification salary increases
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Neary Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Trottier Middle School Auditorium, 49 Parkerville Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Public forum related to feasibility study
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- Select Board Meeting, 6:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Interview of finalists for Fire Chief
- Meeting, pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
- Meeting, pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
- Meeting, pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
Friday, April 5, 2024
- Council on Aging Meeting, 11:30 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on end of year spending, new marketing materials, and SAM; Tricentennial project ideas; Review “No Small Steps” from End Loneliness task force; preview programs; addition soft opening; Issues with fuel assistance and Springwell
- Master Plan Implementation Committee Meeting, 2:00 pm @ location and zoom or @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Working meeting to update progress on Master Plan Goals (video not yet posted)
, 2024
- Meeting, pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
- Meeting, pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
- Meeting, pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
- Meeting, pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
- Meeting, pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
, 2024
- Meeting, am (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
- Meeting, am (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
- Meeting, am (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
- Meeting, pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
- Meeting, pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
*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.
