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 22, 2024
- Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 5:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: MPL Construction program; “More Than Books” agreement forms; Library Director Evaluation; Candidate’s Night
- Regional School Committee Meeting, 5:45 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School, Career Resource C (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Preparation for Northborough Annual Town Meeting (this evening)
- Municipal Technology Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Wifi proposals for Town properties; Library tech usage and training; Town Survey results; Tech related take-aways from Town meeting; Emergency Dispatch Tech; SAM and Cable committee Tech
- Neary School Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Debrief on Open Forum; Subcommittee reports; Site options review
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Board of Health Meeting, 10:30 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: 98 & 200 Southville Road Updates; Residential Trash Hauler Regulations; FDA Retail Standard 5; Resignation of Health Director; Reorg of dept and draft job description for Health Director; Registered Sanitarian; Greater Boroughs agreement and Opioid Settlement Survey/Outreach
- Cable Television Committee Meeting, 2:30 pm @ Public Safety Training Room, 32 Cordaville Road (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Prep for renewal of licenses: Review of Verizon License Renewal Draft, SAM Budgets, and Legal Fees
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Liquor & Victualer licenses for Cordaville’s Market* (Fitzgerald’s General Store); Atwood Rd parcel lead testing and steps; Batting cage approval; software platform to report resident concerns; Regional Dispatch update; Water Tower Antenna; Vote on new appointments (21 Highland Future Use Committee, Community Garden Coordinator, & DPW Truck Driver); Request for take-home vehicle for Police Lt; Award contract for Public Safety Staffing Study; Approve Job Descriptions (Bus Admins, Police Lt, and Rec Dept); Potential reorg of affordable housing committees; ARPA Allocations (Request for allocation of Senior Center funds, Council on Aging Community Assessment, Sidewalks, Wi-Fi Study and next steps); One Stop Grant Expressions of Interest; Potential letter to Planning Board re 120 Turnpike Road; Review draft letter re MBTA Communities compliance; Northboro Rd 61A parcels dept/committee responses; Scheduling of Fall Town Meeting (weekday/weekend)
- Southborough Housing Opportunity Partnership Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss Northboro Rd 61A parcels
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Taxation Aid Committee Meeting, 4:15 pm @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review and potential vote on applicants
- Regional School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: School Choice Hearing and vote; Retiree & special recognitions; Social Studies Dept Presentation; Town Meetings recap; Student Opportunity Act Plan; Student Handbook updates; GonkPlex update
- Tricentennial Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Southborough Library Eaton Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Municipal Finance protocol & spending authorizations; Discuss 501c3; survey results; future subcommittees; priorities
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda, materials) Agenda Highlights: Hearings for 120 Turnpike Rd — special permit modification to remove language relating to a land donation to the Town, 40B permit, and special permit for shared driveway
*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 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).
*Updated (4/23/24 8:30 am): Although the Select Board agenda refers to “Cordaville Market”, the attached packet shows that the owners of 110 Southville Rd are doing business as “Cordaville’s Market”.
